CONTENTS

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  1. [First Impressions]1
  2. [Lessons]6
  3. [A Thunder-storm]13
  4. [Nimbus]16
  5. [The Mother's Vow] 24
  6. [Martha's Going—Yet Remaining]33
  7. [A Shock]45
  8. [Annan]51
  9. [Eric]59
  10. [The Bungalow]68
  11. [Awakening] 83
  12. [Our First Ball]94
  13. [The Cloud Again]108
  14. ["Where is Bettina?"]120
  15. [My Secret]137
  16. [The Yachting Party]150
  17. [The Emerald Pendant] 161
  18. [Ranny]169
  19. [Another Girl]178
  20. [Two Invitations and a Crisis]186
  21. [Aunt Josephine's Letter]198
  22. [Planting Thyme ]209
  23. [Eric's Secret]215
  24. [Madame Aurore]224
  25. [Going to London]244
  26. [Aunt Josephine]253
  27. [The Dinner Party]266
  28. [The Grey Hawk]287
  29. [Where?]303
  30. [The Blunt Lead-Pencil]310
  31. [The Man with the Sword]322
  32. [Darkness]329
  33. [A Strange Step]336
  34. [The End Which Was the Beginning]341

MY LITTLE SISTER

CHAPTER I
FIRST IMPRESSIONS

She is very fair, my little sister.

I mean, not only she is good to look upon. I mean that she is white and golden, and always seemed to bring a shining where she went.