QUEEN HILDEGARDE ***
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QUEEN HILDEGARDE
BOOKS BY LAURA E. RICHARDS
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Each 1 volume, cloth decorative, illustrated, $1.75
Star Bright Captain January
The above volumes boxed as a set, $3.50
STORIES FOR LITTLE FOLKS
Each, one volume, cloth decorative, illustrated
Five Minute Stories $1.75 More Five Minute Stories 1.75 Three Minute Stories 1.75 A Happy Little Time 1.75 Four Feet, Two Feet, No Feet 2.75 When I Was Your Age 1.75
THE CAPTAIN JANUARY SERIES
Captain January $1.00 Melody 1.00
Each, one volume, illustrated, 90 cents
Jim of Hellas Marie Rosin the Beau Snow-white Narcissa "Some Day" Nautilus Isla Heron The Little Master
Captain January--_Baby Peggy Edition_ $2.50
HILDEGARDE-MARGARET SERIES
Each, one volume, illustrated, $1.75
Queen Hildegarde Hildegarde's Holiday Hildegarde's Home Hildegarde's Neighbors Hildegarde's Harvest Three Margarets Margaret Montfort Peggy Rita Fernley House The Merryweathers
The above eleven volumes are also boxed as a set, $19.25
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Honor Bright $1.75 Honor Bright's New Adventure 1.75 The Armstrongs 1.50 The Green Satin Gown 1.50
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L.C. PAGE & COMPANY (Inc.) 53 Beacon Street Boston, Mass.
[Illustration: "SHE GLANCED INTO THE LONG CHEVAL-GLASS."]
_THE HILDEGARDE SERIES_
Queen Hildegarde
A STORY FOR GIRLS
BY
LAURA E. RICHARDS
Author of
"The Margaret Series," "The Hildegarde Series," "Captain January," "Melody," "Five Minute Stories," etc.
_ILLUSTRATED_
[Illustration]
THE PAGE COMPANY BOSTON · PUBLISHERS
_Copyright, 1889, by_ THE PAGE COMPANY Copyright renewed, 1917
Made in U.S.A.
Thirty-second Impression, August, 1927
THE COLONIAL PRESS C.H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U.S.A.
TO
MY BELOVED SISTER,
=Maud Howe Elliott.=
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. HILDEGARDIS GRAHAM 9
II. DAME AND FARMER 31
III. THE PRISONER OF DESPAIR 49
IV. THE NEW HILDA 73
V. THE BLUE PLATTER 94
VI. HARTLEY'S GLEN 111
VII. PINK CHIRK 135