The Jolliest School of All

by Angela Brazil

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Contents

chapter		page
I.	Off to Italy	[1]
II.	The Villa Camellia	[16]
III.	Hail, Columbia!	[27]
IV.	A Secret Sorority	[41]
V.	Fairy Godmothers, Limited	[52]
VI.	Among the Olive Groves	[66]
VII.	Lorna's Enemy	[81]
VIII.	At Pompeii	[93]
IX.	Reprisals	[113]
X.	The School Carnival	[126]
XI.	Up Vesuvius	[141]
XII.	Tar and Feathers	[156]
XIII.	Peachy's Pranks	[174]
XIV.	The Villa Bleue	[190]
XV.	Peachy's Birthday	[213]
XVI.	Concerning Juniors	[230]
XVII.	The Anglo-Saxon League	[243]
XVIII.	Greek Temples	[257]
XIX.	In Capri	[272]
XX.	The Cameron Clan	[287]
XXI.	The Blue Grotto	[303]

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THE JOLLIEST SCHOOL OF ALL

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CHAPTER I

Off to Italy

In a top-story bedroom in an old-fashioned house in a northern suburb of London, a girl of fourteen was kneeling on the floor, turning out the contents of the bottom cupboards of a big bookcase. Her method of doing so was hardly tidy; she just tossed the miscellaneous assortment of articles down anywhere, till presently she was surrounded by a mixed-up jumble of books, papers, paint-boxes, music, chalks, pencils, foreign stamps, picture post-cards, crests, balls of knitting wool, skeins of embroidery silk, and odds and ends of all kinds. She groaned as the circle grew wider, yet the apparently inexhaustible cupboards were still uncleared.