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Dear EnemyJean Webster Dear Enemy DEAR ENEMY STONE GATE, WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS,December 27.Dear Judy:Your letter is here. I have read it twice, and with amazement. Do I understand that Jervis has given you, for a Christmas present, the making over of the John Grier Home into a model institutio...

When Patty Went to CollegeJean Webster When Patty Went to College I Peters the Susceptible "GAPER-WEIGHTS," observed Patty, sucking an injured thumb, "were evidently not made for driving in tacks. I wish I had a hammer."This remark called forth no response, and Patty peered down from the top of t...

The Four-Pools MysteryJean Webster The Four-Pools Mystery THE FOUR-POOLS MYSTERY CHAPTER I INTRODUCING TERRY PATTEN It was through the Patterson-Pratt forgery case that I first made the acquaintance of Terry Patten, and at the time I should have been more than willing to forego the pleasure.Our f...

Just PattyJean Webster Just Patty Just PattyI Reform IT'S a shame!" said Priscilla."It's an outrage!" said Conny."It's an insult!" said Patty."To separate us now after we've been together three years—""And it isn't as though we were awfully bad last year. Lots of girls had more demerits.""Only ou...

JerryJean Webster Jerry CHAPTER I The courtyard of the Hotel du Lac, furnished with half a dozen tables and chairs, a red and green parrot chained to a perch, and a shady little arbour covered with vines, is a pleasant enough place for morning coffee, but decidedly too sunny for afternoon tea. It...

Jerry JuniorJean Webster Jerry Junior CHAPTER I The courtyard of the Hotel du Lac, furnished with half a dozen tables and chairs, a red and green parrot chained to a perch, and a shady little arbor covered with vines, is a pleasant enough place for morning coffee, but decidedly too sunny for afte...

The Wheat PrincessJean Webster The Wheat Princess PROLOGUE If you leave the city by the Porta Maggiore and take the Via Prænestina, which leads east into the Sabine hills, at some thirty-six kilometers’ distance from Rome you will pass on your left a grey-walled village climbing up the hillside. ...

Vadertje LangbeenJean Webster Vadertje Langbeen LAMME WOENSDAG De eerste Woensdag van elke maand was een echt in-vervelende dag, een dag, die vol angst tegemoet gezien werd, dapper doorstaan moest worden en dan weer zoo gauw mogelijk vergeten werd. Geen vlekje mocht er dan op de vloeren te bespeu...

Daddy Long-LegsJean Webster Daddy Long-Legs: A Comedy in Four Acts TO YOU “BLUE WEDNESDAY” THE first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day—a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste. Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed ...

Much Ado About PeterJean Webster Much Ado About Peter I GERVIE ZAME, GERVIE DOOR Peter and Billy, the two upper grooms at Willowbrook, were polishing the sides of the tall mail phaeton with chamois-skin rubbers and whistling, each a different tune, as they worked. So intent were they upon this mu...