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Happy Pollyooly, the Rich Little Poor Girl
Happy Pollyooly the Rich Little Poor Girl Author:Edgar Jepson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Subjects: Computers / Programming Languages / General Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, ... more »Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE INFURIATED SWAINS FLOSSIE'S news filled Pollyooly with a considerable anxiety; but she was at a loss what to do. She knew that Hilary Vance was at the Savage Club, but she did not know whether she could reach it in time to find him there, for it was now a quarter of two. It did not seem to her a matter to be trusted to the electric telegraph; and living as she did in the old-time Temple, it never occurred to her to telephone. There was nothing to do but await his return and give him Flossie's note of warning the moment he entered. She had been going to take the Lump for a walk on the embankment; she must postpone it. Then, unused to idleness, she cast about how she might fill up her time till his return. She had swept and dusted the room that morning, after the departure of Mrs. Thomas, who hadbusied herself in them, for a short time, and ineffectually, with a dustpan, a brush, and a duster, so that there was no cleaning to be done. Presently it occurred to her that perhaps there might be some holes in the linen of her host which would be the better for her mending. A brief examination of his wardrobe showed her that her surmise was accurate : there was at least a month's hard mending to be done before that wardrobe would contain garments really worthy of the name of underclothing. She decided to begin...« less