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Title: Six Girls
A Home Story

Author: Fannie Belle Irving

Illustrator: F. T. Merrill

Release Date: May 21, 2008 [EBook #25551]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: FROM AUNT TREMAYNE AND RALPH]

SIX GIRLS

_A HOME STORY_

BY
FANNIE BELLE IRVING

ILLUSTRATED BY F. T. MERRILL

BOSTON
DANA ESTES AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1882_,
By Estes and Lauriat.

University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. UNDER THE TREES 7

II. AROUND THE FIRE 18

III. A FOUNDATION THAT BROUGHT KAT TO GRIEF 38

IV. IN CONFIDENCE 51

V. ONE DAY 65

VI. A STRANGER 80

VII. MR. CONGREVE SURPRISES HIMSELF AND EVERYBODY
ELSE 97

VIII. ODDS AND ENDS 113

IX. WHAT OLIVE HEARD 128

X. THE LITTLE BLACK TRUNK 148

XI. WHERE IS ERNESTINE? 168

XII. THE STORY 188

XIII. A YEAR LATER 202

XIV. STUDY OR PLAY? 221

XV. CONGREVE HALL 240

XVI. UNDER THE SHADY GREEN-WOOD TREE 257

XVII. SEVERAL THINGS 284

XVIII. AT THE OPERA 306

XIX. COMING HOME