Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life
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It must be allowed that Mrs. Desmond, with the best dispositions in the world towards children in general and her most perplexing little stepdaughter Helen in particular, was not very happy in her method of dealing with young people. Brought up herself by two maiden aunts on the old-fashioned repressive system, from which she had never consciously suffered, the children of to-day, with their eager, uncontrolled impulses, their passionate likes and dislikes, often fostered by their elders, and their too early developed individualities, were simply a painful enigma to her. That the fault lay in ...
Chapters (26)
- Unlucky
- A Fragment of a Girl's Life BY CAROLINE AUSTIN
- Author of "Cousin Geoffrey and I," "Hugh Herbert's Inheritance," "Dorothy's Dilemma," &c. BLACKIE & SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW DUBLIN BOMBAY
- CHRIS IS BROUGHT BACK BY HIS FRIEND THE SERGEANT
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- UNLUCKY:
- A FRAGMENT OF A GIRL'S LIFE.
- CHAPTER I.
- HELEN'S STEPMOTHER.
- HELEN FLINGS THE VIOLIN AT MRS. DESMOND'S FEET
- CHAPTER II.
- COUSIN MARY.
- CHAPTER III.
- HELEN'S ESCAPADE.
- CHAPTER IV.
- STRANGERS YET.
- CHAPTER V.
- LONGFORD GRANGE.
- CHAPTER VI.
- HAROLD.
- HELEN AND HAROLD AT JIM'S BEDSIDE
- CHAPTER VII.
- "IF I HAD BUT LOVED HER."
- IN MEMORY OF HAROLD, Who Died August 10th, 187—.
- On the same day and about the same hour, HELEN, Drowned through the Foundering of the "Empress" in the Baltic. "Love is all and death is nought."
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