Betty Leicester - A Story For Girls (Paperback)

CONTENTS. PAGB I. As FAB AS RlVERPOBT .... 1 II. THF PACKET BOAT 17 III. A BIT OF COLOR 28 IV. TlDBSHEAD 40 V. AT BECKYS HOUSE 50 VI. THE GARDEN TEA 60 VII. THE SIN BOOKS 72 VIII. A CHAPTER OF LETTERS . . . .93 IX. BETTYS REFLECTIONS .... 108 X. UP-COUNTRY 137 XI. THE Two FRIENDS 158 XII. BETTY AT HOME 171 XIII. A GREAT EXCITEMENT .... 185 XIV. THE OUT-OF-DOOR CLUB . . . .209 XV. THE STARLIGHT COMES IN . . . 221 XVI. DOWN THE RIVER 239 XVH. GOING AWAY . .... 276 BETTY LEICESTER AS FAB AS RIVERPORT. Two persons sat at a small breakfast-table near an open window, high up in Youngs Hotel in Boston. It was a pleasant June morn- ing, just after eight oclock, and they could see the white clouds blowing over but the gray walls of the Court House were just opposite, so that one cannot say much of their view of the world. The room was pleasanter than most hotel rooms, and the persons at breakfast were a girl of fifteen, named Betty Leicester, and her father. Their friends thought them both good-looking, but it ought to be revealed in this story just what sort of good looks they had, since character makes the expression of peoples faces. But this we can say, to begin