Esther : a book for girls. Rosa Nouchette Carey
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Rosa Nouchette Carey
Esther : a book for girls
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066134204
Table of Contents
THE LAST DAY AT REDMAYNE HOUSE.
"I WISH I HAD A DOT OF MY OWN."
PLAYING IN TOM TIDLER'S GROUND.
ALLAN AND I WALK TO ELTHAM GREEN.
CHAPTER I.
THE LAST DAY AT REDMAYNE HOUSE.
What trifles vex one!
I was always sorry that my name was Esther; not that I found fault with the name itself, but it was too grave, too full of meaning for such an insignificant person. Some one who was learned in such matters—I think it was Allan—told me once that it meant a star, or good fortune.
It may be so, but the real meaning lay for me in the marginal note of my Bible: Esther, fair of form and good in countenance, that Hadassah, who was brought