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    Betty Leicester's Christmas
    Betty Leicester's Christmas
    Betty Leicester's Christmas
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    Betty Leicester's Christmas

    By Anna Whelan Betts and Sarah Orne Jewett

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    Title: Betty Leicester's Christmas

    Author: Sarah Orne Jewett

    Illustrator: Anna Whelan Betts

    Release Date: January 13, 2013 [EBook #41831]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BETTY LEICESTER'S CHRISTMAS ***

    Produced by sp1nd, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed

    Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

    produced from images generously made available by The

    Internet Archive)

    BETTY LEICESTER'S CHRISTMAS

    BY SARAH ORNE JEWETT

    BOSTON AND NEW YORK

    HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

    The Riverside Press, Cambridge

    1899

    COPYRIGHT, 1894 AND 1899, BY SARAH ORNE JEWETT

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    To

    M. E. G.

    IN SOLEMN MAJESTY

    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    BETTY LEICESTER'S CHRISTMAS

    I

    There was once a story-book girl named Betty Leicester, who lived in a small square book bound in scarlet and white. I, who know her better than any one else does, and who know my way about Tideshead, the story-book town, as well as she did, and who have not only made many a visit to her Aunt Barbara and Aunt Mary in their charming old country-house, but have even seen the house in London where she spent the winter: I, who confess to loving Betty a good deal, wish to write a little more about her in this Christmas story. The truth is, that ever since I wrote the first story I have been seeing girls who reminded me of Betty Leicester of Tideshead. Either they were about the same age or the same height, or they skipped gayly by me in a little gown like hers, or I saw a pleased look or a puzzled look in their eyes which seemed to bring Betty, my own story-book girl, right before me.

    Now, if anybody has read the book, this preface will be much more interesting than if anybody has not. Yet, if I say to all new acquaintances that Betty was just in the middle of her sixteenth year, and quite in the middle of girlhood; that she hated some things as much as she could, and liked other things with all her heart, and did not feel pleased when older people kept saying don't! perhaps these new acquaintances will take the risk of being friends. Certain things had become easy just as Betty was leaving Tideshead in New England, where she had been spending the summer with her old aunts, so that, having got used to all the Tideshead liberties and restrictions, she thought she was leaving the easiest place in the world; but when she got back to London with her father, somehow or other life was very difficult indeed.

    She used to wish for London and for her cronies, the Duncans, when she was first in Tideshead; but when she was in England again she found that, being a little nearer to the awful responsibilities of a grown person, she was not only a new Betty, but London—great, busy, roaring, delightful London—was a new London altogether. To say that she felt lonely, and cried one night because she wished to go back to Tideshead and be a village person again, and was homesick for her four-posted bed with the mandarins parading on the curtains, is only to tell the honest truth.

    In Tideshead that summer Betty Leicester learned two things which she could not understand quite well enough to believe at first, but which always seem more and more sensible to one as time goes on. The first is that you must be careful what you wish for, because if you wish hard enough you are pretty sure to get it; and the second is, that no two persons can be placed anywhere where one will not be host and the other guest. One will be

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