Miss Prudence. Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin
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Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin
Miss Prudence
A Story of Two Girls' Lives
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066165239
Table of Contents
MISS PRUDENCE.
XIII.
CHAP
I. AFTER SCHOOL
II. EVANGELIST
III. WHAT "DESULTORY" MEANS
IV. A RIDE, A WALK, A TALK, AND A TUMBLE
V. TWO PROMISES
VI. MARJORIE ASLEEP AND AWAKE
VII. UNDER THE APPLE-TREE
VIII. BISCUITS AND OTHER THINGS
IX. JOHN HOLMES
X. LINNET
XI. GRANDMOTHER
XII. A BUDGET OF LETTERS
XIII. A WEDDING DAY
XIV. A TALK AND ANOTHER TALK
XV. JEROMA
XVI. MAPLE STREET
XVII. MORRIS
XVIII. ONE DAY
XIX. A STORY THAT WAS NOT VERY SAD
XX. "HEIRS TOGETHER"
XXI. MORRIS AGAIN
XXII. TIDINGS
XXIII. GOD'S LOVE
XXIV. JUST AS IT OUGHT TO BE
XXV. THE WILL OF GOD
XXVI. MARJORIE'S MOTHER
XXVII. ANOTHER WALK AND ANOTHER TALE
XXVIII. THE LINNET
XXIX. ONE NIGHT
XXX. THE COSEY CORNER
XXXI. AND WHAT ELSE?
MISS PRUDENCE.
I.
AFTER SCHOOL.
"Our content is our best having."—Shakespeare.
Nobody had ever told Marjorie that she was, as somebody says we all are, three people—the Marjorie she knew herself, the Marjorie other people knew, and the Marjorie God knew. It was a "bother" sometimes to be the Marjorie she knew herself, and she had never guessed there was another Marjorie for other people to know, and the Marjorie God knew and understood she did not learn much about for years and years. At eleven years old it was hard enough to know about herself—her naughty, absent-minded, story-book-loving self. Her mother said that she loved story-books entirely too much, that they made her absent-minded and forgetful, and her mother's words were proving themselves true this very afternoon. She was a real trouble to herself and there was no one near to "confess" to; she never could talk about herself unless enveloped in the friendly darkness, and then the confessor must draw her out, step by step, with perfect frankness and sympathy; even then, a sigh, or sob, or quickly drawn breath and half inarticulate expression revealed more than her spoken words.
She was one of the children that are left to themselves. Only Linnet knew