Oh, Virginia! (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1920 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III BURGLARS While Georgiana, puzzling over her cousins' odd playmate, was walking with Alice and Kate back to the house from the disastrous tea party, the subject of her curiosity strolled listlessly across the lawn to her own home. And, oddly enough, she was thinking of Georgiana. She was thinking of Georgiana's tidy, glossy hair, her immaculate white frock, dainty silk stockings and clean white shoes. "She's nothing but a prig, and I know I'm going to hate her," reflected Jinks vehemently. "I hope she isn't going to stay long. She carried a parasol, too " And though she tried to make herself believe that this was quite the height of feminine folly, Jinks stopped suddenly and stared down ruefully at her own stained, torn frock, rough and crumpled where the kettle had splashed it. "I wonder if girls do have to keep always fussed up and neat," she asked herself. "If it is only boys who have the right to be dirty and jolly and comfortable? Would wearing pinchy, pointed shoes and blue hair ribbons make me a better girl, I wonder? Miss Farnham keeps saying so, but she's a prig, too, and who would believe her? Mother always wants me all dolled up whenever she sees me. It seems such a waste of time. I wonder what that Georgie girl thinks about and does? No, I can never call her 'George.' It doesn't--doesn't fit. Does she care to do good in the world, as I do? Jiminy, I wish I knew." Jinks was thinking so deeply that she reached the house without realizing. She had planned to make her entrance by the back way, to save her governess a shock and herself an argument. But a shrill cry of dismay roused her as she stepped on the terrace and Miss Farnham, herself immaculately dressed, stood before her with uplifted hands. "Oh, Virginia How did you manage to get...