What Katy Did Next
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. AN UNEXPECTED GUEST
II. AN INVITATION
III. ROSE AND ROSEBUD
IV. ON THE "SPARTACUS"
V. STORY-BOOK ENGLAND
VI. ACROSS THE CHANNEL
VII. THE PENSION SUISSE
VIII. ON THE TRACK OF ULYSSES
IX. A ROMAN HOLIDAY
X. CLEAR SHINING AFTER RAIN
XI. NEXT
ILLUSTRATIONS
SHE PAID ...
MoreCONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. AN UNEXPECTED GUEST
II. AN INVITATION
III. ROSE AND ROSEBUD
IV. ON THE "SPARTACUS"
V. STORY-BOOK ENGLAND
VI. ACROSS THE CHANNEL
VII. THE PENSION SUISSE
VIII. ON THE TRACK OF ULYSSES
IX. A ROMAN HOLIDAY
X. CLEAR SHINING AFTER RAIN
XI. NEXT
ILLUSTRATIONS
SHE PAID A VISIT TO THE LITTLE GARDEN
"SHE WAS HAVING THE MEASLES ON THE
BACK SHELF OF THE CLOSET, YOU KNOW"
KATY WAS FEEDING GRETCHEN OUT OF A BIG
BOWL FULL OF BREAD AND MILK
AMY WAS LEFT IN PEACE WITH HER FAWN
CHAPTER I.
AN UNEXPECTED GUEST.
The September sun was glinting cheerfully into a pretty bedroom
furnished with blue. It danced on the glossy hair and bright eyes of two
girls, who sat together hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The
half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed; and as each crisp
ruffle was completed, the girls added it to the snowy heap, which looked
like a drift of transparent clouds or a pile of foamy white-of-egg
beaten stiff enough to stand alone.
These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and it was Clover's first
evening dress for which they were hemming ruffles. It was nearly two
years since a certain visit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills, of which
some of you have read in "Nine Little Goslings;" and more than three
since Clover and Katy had returned home from the boarding-school at
Hillsover.
Clover was now eighteen. She was a very small Clover still, but it would
have been hard to find anywhere a prettier little maiden than she had
grown to be. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and wrists
and shoulders, which were round and dimpled like a baby's, seemed cut
out of daisies or white rose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and
coiled gracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarly sweet; and
the eyes, always Clover's chief beauty, had still that pathetic look
which made them irresistible to tender-hearted people.
Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beautiful as girls in
books, and was proud to be permitted to hem ruffles for the dress in
which she was to burst upon the world. Though, as for that, not much
"bursting" was possible in Burnet, where tea-parties of a middle-aged
description, and now and then a mild little dance, represented "gayety"
and "society." Girls "came out" very much, as the sun comes out in the
morning,--by slow degrees and gradual approaches, with no particular
one moment which could be fixed upon as having been the crisis of the
joyful event.
"There," said Elsie, adding another ruffle to the pile on the
bed,--"there's the fifth done. It's going to be ever so pretty, I think.
I'm glad you had it all white; it's a great deal nicer."
"Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash," said Clover, "but I
wouldn't. Then she tried to persuade me to get a long spray of pink
roses for the skirt."
"I'm so glad you didn't! Cecy was always crazy about pink roses. I only
wonder she didn't wear them when she was married!"
Yes; the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen had announced her intention to
devote her whole life to teaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and
setting a good example to her more worldly contemporaries, had actually
forgotten these fine resolutions, and before she was twenty had become
the wife of Sylvester Slack, a young lawyer in a neighboring town!
Cecy's wedding and wedding-clothes, and Cecy's house-furnishing had been
the great excitement of the preceding year in Burnet; and a fresh
excitement had come since in the shape of Cecy's baby, now about two
months old, and named "Katherine Clover," after her two friends. This
made it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still be of interest in
the Carr household; and Johnnie, at the time we write of, was making her
a week's visit.
"She _was_ rather wedded to them," went on Clover, pursuing the subject
of the pink roses. "She was almost vexed when I wouldn't buy the spray.
But it cost lots, and I didn't want it in the least, so I stood firm.
Publisher | |
Binding | Kindle Edition (83 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | N/A |
ISBN-10 | B004M5HHNW |
Publication Date | 02/02/2011 |
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