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Title: Patty's Social Season

Author: Carolyn Wells

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Language: English

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PATTY'S SOCIAL SEASON

by

CAROLYN WELLS

Author of
The TWO LITTLE WOMEN Series
The MARJORIE Books
etc.

Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers
New York

Copyright, 1913
By Dodd, Mead and Company

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Flowers! 9
II At the Dance 25
III Happy Saturdays 42
IV An Invitation 60
V Happy Guests 76
VI Confidences 94
VII More Making Up 108
VIII A Delightful Invitation 125
IX Fern Falls 141
X Christmas Eve 158
XI The Christmas Spirit 174
XII Coasting 192
XIII Hide and Seek 208
XIV A Proposal 225
XV A Christmas Card 243
XVI Stormbound 260
XVII The Country Club Ball 284
XVIII Back to New York 300
XIX An Exciting Chase 316
XX Bridesmaid Patty 333

CHAPTER I

FLOWERS!

"Patty, do come along and get your luncheon before everything grows
cold!"

"'And the stars are old, And the leaves of the judgment book unfold,'"
chanted Patty, who had just learned this new song, and was apt to sing
it at unexpected moments. She sat on the floor in the middle of the
long drawing-room of her New York home. To say she was surrounded by
flowers, faintly expresses it. She was hemmed in, barricaded, nearly
smothered in flowers.

They were or had been in enormous florist's boxes, and as fast as
Patty opened the boxes and read the cards which accompanied the
blossoms, Jane took the boxes away.

It