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Title: Sparrows
The Story of an Unprotected Girl

Author: Horace W. C. Newte

Posting Date: August 1, 2009 [EBook #4345]
Release Date: August, 2003
First Posted: January 22, 2002

Language: English

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SPARROWS

THE STORY OF AN UNPROTECTED GIRL

by

Horace W. C. Newte

CONTENTS

ONE THE DEVITTS
TWO MAVIS KEEVES
THREE FRIENDS IN NEED
FOUR MAVIS LEAVES HER NEST
FIVE BARREN WAYS
SIX "DAWES"
SEVEN WIDER HORIZONS
EIGHT SPIDER AND FLY
NINE AWING
TEN "POULTER'S"
ELEVEN MAVIS'S PRAYER
TWELVE MRS HAMILTON'S
THIRTEEN MAVIS GOES OUT TO SUPPER
FOURTEEN THE SEQUEL
FIFTEEN A GOOD SAMARITAN
SIXTEEN SURRENDER
SEVENTEEN SPRINGTIME
EIGHTEEN CHARLIE PERIGAL
NINETEEN THE MOON GODDESS
TWENTY THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
TWENTY-ONE THE AWAKENING
TWENTY-TWO O LOVE, FOR DELIGHTS!
TWENTY-THREE THE CURSE OF EVE
TWENTY-FOUR SNARES
TWENTY-FIVE A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
TWENTY-SIX TRAVAIL
TWENTY-SEVEN THE NURSING HOME
TWENTY-EIGHT MISS 'PETT'S APOTHEOSIS
TWENTY-NINE THE ORDEAL
THIRTY THE "PERMANENT"
THIRTY-ONE PIMLICO
THIRTY-TWO MISS TOOMBS REVEALS HERSELF
THIRTY-THREE AN OLD FRIEND
THIRTY-FOUR MAVIS GOES TO MELKBRIDGE
THIRTY-FIVE THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
THIRTY-SIX A VISIT
THIRTY-SEVEN MAVIS AND HAROLD
THIRTY-EIGHT MAVIS'S REVENGE
THIRTY-NINE A SURPRISE
FORTY A MIDNIGHT WALK
FORTY-ONE TRIBULATION
FORTY-TWO THE WELL-BELOVED

CHAPTER ONE

THE DEVITTS

Everyone at Melkbridge knew the Devitts: they lived in the new,
pretentious-looking house, standing on the right, a few minutes after
one left the town by the Bathminster road. It was a blustering,
stare-one-in-the-face kind of house, which defied one to question the
financial stability