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Chapters (72)
  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. THE FIRST YEAR
  6. CHAPTER 1
  7. CHAPTER 2
  8. CHAPTER 3
  9. CHAPTER 4
  10. CHAPTER 5
  11. CHAPTER 6
  12. CHAPTER 7
  13. CHAPTER 8
  14. CHAPTER 9
  15. CHAPTER 10
  16. CHAPTER 11
  17. CHAPTER 12
  18. THE SECOND YEAR
  19. CHAPTER 13
  20. CHAPTER 14
  21. CHAPTER 15
  22. CHAPTER 16
  23. CHAPTER 17
  24. CHAPTER 18
  25. CHAPTER 19
  26. CHAPTER 20
  27. CHAPTER 21
  28. CHAPTER 22
  29. THE THIRD YEAR
  30. CHAPTER 23
  31. CHAPTER 24
  32. CHAPTER 25
  33. CHAPTER 26
  34. THE FOURTH YEAR
  35. CHAPTER 27
  36. CHAPTER 28
  37. CHAPTER 29
  38. CHAPTER 30
  39. CHAPTER 31
  40. CHAPTER 32
  41. THE FIFTH YEAR
  42. CHAPTER 33
  43. CHAPTER 34
  44. THE SIXTH YEAR
  45. CHAPTER 35
  46. CHAPTER 36
  47. CHAPTER 37
  48. THE SEVENTH YEAR
  49. CHAPTER 38
  50. CHAPTER 39
  51. CHAPTER 40
  52. CHAPTER 41
  53. CHAPTER 42
  54. CHAPTER 43
  55. THE EIGHTH YEAR
  56. CHAPTER 44
  57. CHAPTER 45
  58. CHAPTER 46
  59. THE NINTH YEAR
  60. CHAPTER 47
  61. CHAPTER 48
  62. THE TENTH YEAR
  63. CHAPTER 49
  64. CHAPTER 50
  65. CHAPTER 51
  66. CHAPTER 52
  67. THE ELEVENTH YEAR
  68. CHAPTER 53
  69. CHAPTER 54
  70. CHAPTER 55
  71. About the Author
  72. Back Cover

“Certainly not, Judy. They were given to you and they are yours.”

Judy gave a sigh of relief.

“It’s rale glad I am to hear ye say so, Patsy. It wud have been bitter hard to give up that illigant t’ilet set. But I’m thinking I’ll give yer Aunt Edith’s hug-me-tight back to her. Niver will I let her be saying I come be it under false pretenses.”

Just as a great wave of sleep was breaking over Pat a sad premonitory thought drifted across her mind.

“And yet…for all she didn’t go…I feel as if things were going to change.”

CHAPTER 25

When Rae came home from Queen’s in the spring, the happy possessor of a teacher’s license, she got the home school and settled down for a summer of good fun before school should open. “Fun” to Rae at this stage meant beaus and, as Judy said, they were standing in line. Pat couldn’t quite get used to the idea of “little Cuddles” being really old enough to have beaus but Rae herself had no doubts on that point. And she admitted quite candidly that she liked having them. Not that she ever flirted, in spite of the Binnies. “College has improved Rae Gardiner some,” Mrs. Binnie was reported to have said, “but it ain’t cured her of being boy-crazy.”

Rae just looked. “Come,” said that look. “I know a secret you would like to know and no one can tell it to you but me.”

She was not really as pretty as Winnie or as witty as Pat but there was magic in her…what Tillytuck called “glamour, symbolically speaking.” “The little monkey has a way with her,” said Uncle Tom. And the youth of both Glens knew it. It did not matter how much or how severely she snubbed them, this creature of cruelty and loveliness held them in thrall. Long Alec complained that Silver Bush was literally overrun and that they never had a quiet Sunday any more. But Judy would listen to no such growling. “Wud ye be wanting yer girls to be like John B. Madison’s,” she inquired sarcastically. “Six av thim there and niver a beau to divide between thim.”

“There’s reason in all things,” protested Long Alec, who liked to have an undisturbed Sunday afternoon nap.