Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing
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The books 'Love in the Wilderness' and 'The Edge o' Beyond' have been converted from original copies into digital format by a volunteer with the intent to preserve the author's works, and the book 'Paddy the Next Best Thing' has been edited from the Project Gutenberg website.Originally born in England, Gertrude Page later moved to Rhodesia after getting married and produced many books, several of which featuring stories about life in Africa, with the books becoming quite popular in the day due to interest into day to day life in the further flung parts of the world.While only a few of Gertrude...
Chapters (47)
- Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing
- CHAPTER I Concerning Paddy’s Blouse.
- CHAPTER II The Misses O’Hara.
- CHAPTER III Eileen the Dreamer.
- CHAPTER IV Paddy’s Adventure.
- CHAPTER V Ted Masterman.
- CHAPTER VI Lawrence Blake.
- CHAPTER VII Lawrence Finds Eileen on the Shingles.
- CHAPTER VIII Paddy’s Pigs.
- CHAPTER IX Concerning a Supper-Dance.
- CHAPTER X A Letter from Calcutta.
- CHAPTER XI The Scrimmage Party.
- CHAPTER XII The Ball.
- CHAPTER XIII Paddy’s Views on Sentimentality.
- CHAPTER XIV The Conservatory and the Den.
- CHAPTER XV Dread and Wrath.
- CHAPTER XVI The First Awakening.
- CHAPTER XVII Brooding Clouds.
- CHAPTER XVIII The Angel of Death.
- CHAPTER XIX In Which the Worst Came.
- CHAPTER XX Explanations.
- CHAPTER XXI Two Love Stories.
- CHAPTER XXII Good-Bye.
- CHAPTER XXIII Gwendoline Carew.
- CHAPTER XXIV Lawrence Hears Some News.
- CHAPTER XXV A Curious Engagement.
- CHAPTER XXVI Paddy Makes Her Cousin’s Acquaintance.
- CHAPTER XXVII Paddy has a Visitor.
- CHAPTER XXVIII The New Home.
- CHAPTER XXIX A Strange Coincidence.
- CHAPTER XXX An Encounter.
- CHAPTER XXXI Paddy Makes a New Friend.
- CHAPTER XXXII Paddy Learns Her Mistake.
- CHAPTER XXXIII Patricia the Great.
- CHAPTER XXXIV Robert Morony on Church Restoration.
- CHAPTER XXXV The Picnic.
- CHAPTER XXXVI The Rescue.
- CHAPTER XXXVII “Stay here with me.”
- CHAPTER XXXVIII Gwen’s Views on Matrimony.
- CHAPTER XXXIX A Christmas Surprise.
- CHAPTER XL A Budget of News.
- CHAPTER XLI In Lawrence’s Den.
- CHAPTER XLII “What would an Irish Fusilier do?”
- CHAPTER XLIII A Man’s Pain.
- CHAPTER XLIV “I Cannot Come.”
- CHAPTER XLV The Invalid.
- CHAPTER XLVI The Solution.
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