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Flip's "Islands of Providence" - Annie F. Johnston
Annie F. Johnston
Flip's Islands of Providence
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Table of Contents
Cosy Corner Series
FLIP'S ISLANDS OF PROVIDENCE
Annie Fellows Johnston
FLIP'S ISLANDS OF PROVIDENCE
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
'ALEC,' HE SAID, PAUSING IN THE DOORWAY, 'WHAT'S A GREEN GOODS MAN?'
(See page 75)
Cosy Corner Series
Table of Contents
FLIP'S "ISLANDS
OF PROVIDENCE"
Table of Contents
By
Annie Fellows Johnston
Table of Contents
Author of Asa Holmes,
The Little Colonel Stories,
Big Brother,
etc.
Illustrated by
E. F. Bonsall
"I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;"
— Whittier
Boston
L.C. Page & Company
Publishers
Copyright, 1902
By The Trustees of the Presbyterian Board
of Publication and Sabbath-school Work
Copyright, 1903
By
L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)
All rights reserved
Published August, 1903
Fourth Impression, February, 1907
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
FLIP'S "ISLANDS OF
PROVIDENCE"
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.
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Carefully locking the door of his little gable bedroom, Alec Stoker put down the cup of hot water he carried, and peered into the mirror above his wash-stand. Then, although he had come up-stairs fully determined to attempt his first shave, he stood irresolute, stroking the almost imperceptible down on his boyish lip and chin.
It does make me look older, that's a fact,
he muttered to his reflection in the glass. Maybe I'd better not cut it off until I've had my interview with the agent. The older I look, the more likely he'll be to trust me with a responsible position. Still,
he continued, surveying himself critically, I might make a more favourable impression if I had that 'well-groomed' look the papers lay so much stress on nowadays, and I could mention in a careless, offhand way something about having just shaved.
It was not yet dark out-of-doors, but after a few minutes of further deliberation, Alec pulled down the blind over his window and lighted the lamp. Then, opening a box that he took from his bureau, he drew out his Grandfather Macklin's razor and ivory-handled shaving-brush.
I'm sure the old gentleman never dreamed, when they made me his namesake, that this was all of his property I would fall heir to,
he thought, bitterly.
The moody expression that settled on his face at the thought had become almost habitual in the last four weeks. The happy-go-lucky boy of seventeen seemed to have changed in that time to a morose man. June had left him the jolliest boy in the high school graduating class. September found him a morbid cynic.
It had been nine years since his mother, just before her death, had brought him back to the old home for her sister Eunice to take care of—Alec and the little five-year-old Philippa and the baby Macklin. Their Aunt Eunice had made a happy home for them, and although she rarely laughed herself, and her hair had whitened long before its time, she had allowed no part of her burdens to touch their thoughtless young lives. It was only lately that Alec had been aroused to the fact that she had any burdens. He was rehearsing them all now, as he rubbed the lather over his chin, so busily that he did not hear Philippa's light step on the back stairs. Philippa could step very lightly when she chose, despite the fact that she was long and awkward, with that temporary awkwardness of a growing girl who finds it hard to adjust herself and her skirts to her constantly increasing height.
Alec almost dropped his brush as she suddenly banged on his door. Is that you, Flip?
he called, although he knew no one but Philippa ever beat such thundering tattoos on his door.
Yes! Let me in! I want to ask you something.
He knew just how her sharp gray eyes would scan him, and he hesitated an instant, divided between a desire to let her see him in the manly act of shaving himself and the certain knowledge that she would tease him if he did.
Finally he threw open the door and turned to the glass in his most indifferent manner, as if it were an every-day occurrence with him. Come in,
he said; I'm only shaving. I'm going out this evening.
If he had thought she would be impressed by his lordly air, he was mistaken, for, after one prolonged stare, she threw herself on the bed, shrieking with laughter. Long practice in bandying words with her brother had made her an expert tease. Usually they both enjoyed such combats, but now, to her surprise, he seemed indifferent to her most provoking comments, and scraped away at his chin in dignified silence.
I believe you said you had something to say to me, Philippa,
he said presently, in a stern tone that made her stare. Never, except when he was very angry, did he call her anything but Flip.
Suddenly sobered, she took her face out of the pillows and peered at him curiously, twisting one of the long plaits of hair that hung over her shoulder.
I have,
she said. "I want to know what's the matter with you. What has come over you lately? You've been as sullen as a brown bear for days and days. I asked Aunt Eunice just now, while we were washing the supper dishes, what had changed you so. You used to be whistling and joking whenever you came near the house. Now you never open your lips except to make some sarcastic speech.
"She said that it was probably because you were so disappointed about not getting that