CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I. Doris]
[CHAPTER II. In a New Home]
[CHAPTER III. Aunt Priscilla]
[CHAPTER IV. Out to Tea]
[CHAPTER V. A Morning at School]
[CHAPTER VI. A Birthday Party]
[CHAPTER VII. About a Gown]
[CHAPTER VIII. Sinful or Not?]
[CHAPTER IX. What Winter Brought]
[CHAPTER X. Concerning Many Things]
[CHAPTER XI. A Little Christmas]
[CHAPTER XII. A Children's Party]
[CHAPTER XIII. Various Opinions of Little Girls]
[CHAPTER XIV. In the Spring]
[CHAPTER XV. A Freedom Suit]
[CHAPTER XVI. A Summer in Boston]
[CHAPTER XVII. Another Girl]
[CHAPTER XVIII. Winter and Sorrow]
[CHAPTER XIX. The High Resolve of Youth]
[CHAPTER XX. A Visitor for Doris]
[CHAPTER XXI. Elizabeth and—Peace]
[CHAPTER XXII. Cary Adams]
[CHAPTER XXIII. The Cost of Womanhood]
[CHAPTER XXIV. The Bloom of Life—Love]
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A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD BOSTON


CHAPTER I

DORIS

"I do suppose she is a Papist! The French generally are," said Aunt Priscilla, drawing her brows in a delicate sort of frown, and sipping her tea with a spoon that had the London crown mark, and had been buried early in revolutionary times.

"Why, there were all the Huguenots who emigrated from France for the sake of worshiping God in their own way rather than that of the Pope. We Puritans did not take all the free-will," declared Betty spiritedly.