WHILE CAROLINE WAS GROWING ***
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WHILE CAROLINE WAS GROWING
BOOKS ABOUT CHILDREN BY JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON
THE MADNESS OF PHILIP MEMOIRS OF A BABY BIOGRAPHY OF A BOY THE IMP AND THE ANGEL SISTER'S VOCATION TEN TO SEVENTEEN
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA · MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO
WHILE CAROLINE WAS GROWING
BY
JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON
_ILLUSTRATED_
NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1911
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_All rights reserved_
Copyright, 1906, by P. F. Collier & Son Copyright, 1907, by the S. S. McClure Co. Copyright, 1909, by the S. S. McClure Co., Benjamin B. Hampton, P. F. Collier & Son, and by the Phelps Publishing Company
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Copyright, 1911, by The Macmillan Company
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Set up and Electrotyped. Published March, 1911
Norwood Press: Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To S. B. long Caroline's admirer, from J. D. B.
CONTENTS
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I. AN IDYL OF THE ROAD 1
II. A LITTLE VICTORY FOR THE GENERAL 38
III. THE PRIZE 77
IV. WHERE THIEVES BREAK IN 113
V. A PILLAR OF SOCIETY 158
VI. HIS FATHER'S HOUSE 202
VII. THE PRETENDERS 235
VIII. A WATCH IN THE NIGHT 269
IX. THE ENDS OF THE EARTH 297
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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With a great sweep of her arm, she brushed aside a portière and disappeared. 66
"Sh! sh!" he whispered excitedly, "not a vordt! Not a vordt! Mein Gott! but it is marvellous." 74
"What are you doing here, little girl?" he demanded sternly. 118
Caroline danced, bowing and posturing in a bewitched abandon, around the tinkling, glistening fountain. 274
Across the court was a lighted room with a long French window, and in the center of this window there sat in a high, carved chair a very old woman. 282
Caroline was not a hundred yards away, sheltering under a heavy arbor vitæ, flat on her stomach. 299
WHILE CAROLINE WAS GROWING
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I
AN IDYL OF THE ROAD
Caroline rocked herself back and forth from her waist, defying the uncompromisingly straight chair which inclosed her portly little person.
