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Title: Barbara in Brittany

Author: E. A. Gillie

Illustrator: Frank Adams

Release Date: September 26, 2007 [EBook #22774]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: Cover artwork]

[Frontispiece: "'The farmer would spare you those, madam.'"]

BARBARA IN BRITTANY

E. A. Gillie

[Illustration: Title page artwork]

Illustrated by FRANK ADAMS

LONDON AND GLASGOW

COLLINS' CLEAR-TYPE PRESS

1915

TO

MAISIE, MARGARET, AND CUTHBERT,

IN REMEMBRANCE OF SEPTEMBER 1905.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

I. AUNT ANNE
II. NO. 14 RUE ST. SULPICE
III. A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE
IV. THE MAN IN BLUE GLASSES
V. GOOD-BYE TO PARIS
VI. THE REVOLT OF TWO
VII. A WILD DRIVE
VIII. MONT ST. MICHEL
IX. MADEMOISELLE VIRE
X. THE "AMERICAN PRETENDER"
XI. BARBARA TURNS PLOTTER
XII. THE PLOT THICKENS
XIII. THE ESCAPE
XIV. A WAYSIDE INN
XV. THE STRIKE
XVI. BARBARA TURNS DETECTIVE
XVII. A MEMORY AND A "MANOIR"
XVIII. AUNT ANNE AGAIN
XIX. THE END OF THE STORY
XX. THE CODA

ILLUSTRATIONS

Cover artwork

"'The farmer would spare you those, madam.'" . . . _Frontispiece_

Title page artwork

"Barbara was reading a guide book on Brittany."

"She glanced over her shoulder at the sea."

"They surprised Denys by suddenly joining him."

Barbara in Brittany.

CHAPTER I.

AUNT ANNE.

Barbara entered the nursery with rather a worried look on her face.
"Aunt Anne is coming to-morrow, children," she announced.

"To-morrow!" exclaimed a fair-haired boy, rising from the window-seat.
"Oh, I say, Barbe, that's really rather hard lines--in the holidays,
too."

"Just as we were preparing to have a really exciting time," sighed
Frances, who was her brother's close companion and ally.

"I know it's a little hard," Barbara said consolingly, sitting down
beside them and taking one of the twins on her lap, while the other
leaned up against her. "But you will all