Not Like Other Girls
Not Like Other Girls
ROSA N. CAREY
AUTHOR OF
“Aunt Diana,” “Averil,” “Lover or Friend,” “Merle’s Crusade,” “Esther,” “Mary St. John,” “Queenie’s Whim,” “We Wifie,” Etc., Etc.
CHICAGO
M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY
407-429 Dearborn Street
Five-o’clock tea was a great institution in Oldfield.
It was a form of refreshment to which the female inhabitants of that delightful place were strongly addicted. In vain did Dr. Weatherby, the great authority in all that concerned the health of the neighborhood, lift up his voice against the mild feminine dram-drinking of these modern days, denouncing it in no measured terms: the ladies of Oldfield listened incredulously, and, softly quoting Cowper’s lines as to the “cup that cheers and not inebriates,” still presided over their dainty little tea-tables, and vied with one another in the beauty of their china and the flavor of their highly-scented Pekoe.
In spite of Dr. Weatherby’s sneers and innuendoes, a great deal of valuable time was spent in lingering in one or another of the pleasant drawing-rooms of the place. As the magic hour approached, people dropped in casually. The elder ladies sipped their tea and gossiped softly; the younger ones, if it were summer-time, strolled out through the open windows into the garden. Most of the houses had tennis-grounds, and it was quite an understood thing that a game should be played before they separated.
With some few exceptions, the inhabitants of Oldfield were wealthy people. Handsome houses standing in their own grounds were dotted here and there among the lanes and country roads. Some of the big houses belonged to very big people indeed; but these were aristocrats who only lived in their country houses a few months in the year, and whose presence added more to the dignity than to the hilarity of the neighborhood.
Rosa Nouchette Carey
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CONTENTS
NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS
CHAPTER I.
FIVE-O’CLOCK TEA.
CHAPTER II.
DICK OBJECTS TO THE MOUNTAINS.
CHAPTER III.
MR. MAYNE MAKES HIMSELF DISAGREEABLE.
CHAPTER IV.
DICK’S FÊTE.
CHAPTER V.
“I AM QUITE SURE OF HIM.”
CHAPTER VI.
MR. TRINDER’S VISIT.
CHAPTER VII.
PHILLIS’S CATECHISM.
CHAPTER VIII.
“WE SHOULD HAVE TO CARRY PARCELS.”
CHAPTER IX.
A LONG DAY.
CHAPTER X.
THE FRIARY.
CHAPTER XI.
“TELL US ALL ABOUT IT, NAN.”
CHAPTER XII.
“LADDIE” PUTS IN AN APPEARANCE.
CHAPTER XIII.
“I MUST HAVE GRACE.”
CHAPTER XIV.
“YOU CAN DARE TO TELL ME THESE THINGS.”
CHAPTER XV.
A VAN IN THE BRAIDWOOD ROAD.
CHAPTER XVI.
A VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
CHAPTER XVII.
“A FRIEND IN NEED.”
CHAPTER XVIII.
DOROTHY BRINGS IN THE BEST CHINA.
CHAPTER XIX.
ARCHIE IS IN A BAD HUMOR.
CHAPTER XX.
“YOU ARE ROMANTIC.”
CHAPTER XXI.
BREAKING THE PEACE.
CHAPTER XXII.
“TRIMMINGS, NOT SQUAILS.”
CHAPTER XXIII.
“BRAVO, ATALANTA!”
CHAPTER XXIV.
MOTHERS ARE MOTHERS.
CHAPTER XXV.
MATTIE’S NEW DRESS.
CHAPTER XXVI.
“OH, YOU ARE PROUD!”
CHAPTER XXVII.
A DARK HOUR.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.
CHAPTER XXIX.
MRS. WILLIAMS’S LODGER.
CHAPTER XXX.
“NOW WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.”
CHAPTER XXXI.
DICK THINKS OF THE CITY.
CHAPTER XXXII.
“DICK IS TO BE OUR REAL BROTHER.”
CHAPTER XXXIII.
“THIS IS LIFE AND DEATH TO ME.”
CHAPTER XXXIV.
MISS MEWLSTONE HAS AN INTERRUPTION.
XXXV.
“BARBY, DON’T YOU RECOLLECT ME?”
CHAPTER XXXVI.
MOTES IN THE SUNSHINE.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
“A MAN HAS A RIGHT TO HIS OWN THOUGHTS.”
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
ABOUT NOTHING PARTICULAR.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
“HOW DO YOU DO, AUNT CATHERINE?”
CHAPTER XL.
ALCIDES.
CHAPTER XLI.
SIR HARRY BIDES HIS TIME.
CHAPTER XLII.
“COME, NOW, I CALL THAT HARD.”
CHAPTER XLIII.
“I WILL WRITE NO SUCH LETTER.”
CHAPTER XLIV.
MR. MAYNE ORDERS A BASIN OF GRUEL.
CHAPTER XLV.
AN UNINVITED GUEST.
CHAPTER XLVI.
A NEW INVASION OF THE GOTHS.
CHAPTER XLVII.
“IT WAS SO GOOD OF YOU TO ASK ME HERE.”
CHAPTER XLVIII.
MRS. SPARSIT’S POODLE.
CHAPTER XLIX.
MATTIE IN A NEW CHARACTER.
CHAPTER L.
PHILLIS’S FAVORITE MONTH.
THE END