A Fortunate Mistake	1904
An Unpremeditated Ceremony	1904
At the Bay Shore Farm	1904
Elizabeth's Child	1904
Freda's Adopted Grave	1904
How Don Was Saved	1904
Miss Madeline's Proposal	1904
Miss Sally's Company	1904
Mrs. March's Revenge	1904
Nan	1904
Natty of Blue Point	1904
Penelope's Party Waist	1904
The Girl and The Wild Race	1904
The Promise of Lucy Ellen	1904
The Pursuit of the Ideal	1904
The Softening of Miss Cynthia	1904
Them Notorious Pigs	1904
Why Not Ask Miss Price?	1904

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"Oh, dear! oh, dear!" fretted Nan Wallace, twisting herself about uneasily on the sofa in her pretty room. "I never thought before that the days could be so long as they are now."

"Poor you!" said her sister Maude sympathetically. Maude was moving briskly about the room, putting it into the beautiful order that Mother insisted on. It was Nan's week to care for their room, but Nan had sprained her ankle three days ago and could do nothing but lie on the sofa ever since. And very tired of it, too, was wide-awake, active Nan.

"And the picnic this afternoon, too!" she sighed. "I've looked forward to it all summer. And it's a perfect day—and I've got to stay here and nurse this foot."

Nan looked vindictively at the bandaged member, while Maude leaned out of the window to pull a pink climbing rose. As she did so she nodded to someone in the village street below.

"Who is passing?" asked Nan.

"Florrie Hamilton."

"Is she going to the picnic?" asked Nan indifferently.

"No. She wasn't asked. Of course, I don't suppose she expected to be. She knows she isn't in our set. She must feel horribly out of place at school. A lot of the girls say it is ridiculous of her father to send her to Miss Braxton's private school—a factory overseer's daughter."

"She

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