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    Briarwood Girls
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    Briarwood Girls

    By Julia Lestarjette Glover

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013

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      Briarwood Girls - Julia Lestarjette Glover

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      Title: Briarwood Girls

      Author: Julia Lestarjette Glover

      Release Date: January 9, 2011 [EBook #34894]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRIARWOOD GIRLS ***

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      BRIARWOOD GIRLS

      BY

      JULIA LESTARJETTE GLOVER

      "I follow, follow, sure to meet the sun,

      And confident that what the future yields

      Will be the right, unless myself be wrong."

      THE BOOK CONCERN

      COLUMBUS, OHIO

      MADE IN

      Columbus

      U.S.A.

      CONTENTS

      Chapter Page

      I. Alison's Wonderful Lamp 5

      II. Briarwood College 19

      III. Some of the Girls 25

      IV. Essays and Essays 31

      V. The Tangled Skein 38

      VI. Mysteries 47

      VII. Without Leave 54

      VIII. In Miss Harland's Office 64

      IX. Adventure of the Lamp 70

      X. Discoveries 79

      XI. Class Prophecy 89

      Chapter I

      ALISON'S WONDERFUL LAMP

      "Mother, isn't there any way for me to go back?"

      It was the first of June, and Alison Fair, just returned home for vacation at the end of her Freshman year, found herself confronted with the staggering knowledge that she could not return to Briarwood to finish her college course, so well and happily begun.

      It was her mother who told her, breaking the hard news as gently as she could, that the pressure of hard times and financial stress made it impossible for her father to think of sending her back in the fall. She told it very tenderly and lovingly, making it clear that only stern necessity compelled them to deny her the opportunity; but the tenderness could not alter the hard fact.

      You are not more disappointed than we are, darling, she said. I would not have told you so soon, but it would be worse if I would leave you under the impression that you can return to Briarwood College. You will be brave, and try not to distress your father by showing your disappointment too much. I know how hard it is, dear. But be patient, and perhaps some way will open. You are only sixteen, you can afford to wait a little.

      Alison swallowed the lump in her throat and said nothing. Wait—yes—but then she could not go on with her class—with Polly and Evelyn and Joan and the rest. And next year they would be Sophomores—and the fun and study would go on, and she would not be there; she would be out of it all. No other girls would be just the same as those girls, her chums of the Freshman year. And then she asked her one despairing question:

      "Mother, isn't there any way for me to go back?"

      But even as she asked it, she knew the answer, and gave it herself. No, I know there isn't. Father would send me if he could. I'll try to be patient, mother. Don't worry. Don't mind, mother— seeing that her mother's tears were flowing. I'll try not to think of it or talk of it any more. I've had one year, anyway. And maybe I can take a correspondence course, or something—

      She tried to speak bravely, but it was more than she could manage just now, and she hastily kissed her mother, and ran away to have it out by herself.

      The children thought it strange that Sister, suddenly stopped talking of her college experiences and the pranks and frolics of the girls. To their questions and demands to hear more, she would reply quietly, There isn't anything more to tell you, Floss. I guess I talked myself out those first few days. Now I want to hear all you have been doing during all the months I've been away.

      Which effectually diverted the attention of Floss and Billy and Mat and opened a flood of reminiscences of their own school life, to which she tried to listen patiently.

      The summer dragged on. Alison had looked forward to it—and beyond it—with such eager pleasure; but the thought that she was not to go back seemed to take all the zest from life. Letters came from the girls—from Evelyn in the mountains, from Polly at the seaside, from Joan and Katherine in Europe—all telling of the good times they were having, and looking forward to their reunion at Briarwood in September. And she would not be there. Trying not to show her disappointment too much, not to distress her father and mother, was as far as Alison could get. She could not look forward; there seemed nothing to look forward to. And to look back to the happy days of last winter was more than she could bear.

      So the days passed, and grew into weeks. August came, with glowing sun and deep blue skies. Summer was at its glorious height. One bright morning Billy came whistling in with the mail;

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