CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Here and There, [1]
II. Bessy Wardour, [14]
III. In a New World, [29]
IV. Of Many Things, [44]
V. A Bouleversement, [58]
VI. To the Rescue, [74]
VII. At Some Crossroads, [87]
VIII. A Little Rebel, [104]
IX. Fate To the Fore, [122]
X. To Turn and Fight, [134]
XI. A Rift of Suspicion, [150]
XII. True To Her Colors, [167]
XIII. Under the Rose, [183]
XIV. For Native Land and Loyalty, [200]
XV. Parting, [215]
XVI. Love and True Love, [231]
XVII. Mid War's Alarms, [238]
XVIII. Whom Shall She Pity, [264]
XIX. Midnight Tidings of Great Joy, [279]
XX. When the World Went Well, [297]
XXI. An April Girl, [312]
XXII. Polly and Phil, [330]
XXIII. Primrose, [342]
XXIV. The Old and the New, [364]
A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD PHILADELPHIA.
CHAPTER I.
HERE AND THERE.
She was swinging her gingham sunbonnet, faded beyond any recognition of its pristine coloring, her small hand keeping tight hold of the strings. At every revolution it went swifter and swifter until it seemed a grayish sort of wheel whirling in the late sunshine that sent long shadows among the trees. When she let it go it flew like a great bird, while she laughed sweet, merry childish notes that would have stirred almost any soul. A slim, lithe little maid with a great crop of yellow hair, cut short in the neck, and as we should say now, banged across the forehead. But it was a mass of frowzy curls that seemed full of sunshine.