Mildreds Inheritance

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Inheritance, by Annie Fellows Johnston

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Title: Mildred's Inheritance Just Her Way; Ann's Own Way
Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
Illustrator: Diantha W. Horne
Release Date: November 22, 2005 [EBook #17133]
Language: English
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MILDRED'S
INHERITANCE
[Illustration]
ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
COSEY CORNER SERIES

MILDRED'S INHERITANCE
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JUST HER WAY
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ANN'S OWN WAY

Works of
Annie Fellows Johnston
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The Little Colonel Series (Trade Mark)
The Little Colonel $ .50 The Same. Holiday Edition 1.25 The Giant Scissors .50 The Same. Holiday Edition 1.25 Two Little Knights of Kentucky .50 The Same. Holiday Edition 1.25 The Little Colonel Stories 1.50 (Containing in one volume the three stories, "The Little Colonel," "The Giant Scissors," and "Two Little Knights of Kentucky.") The Little Colonel's House Party 1.50 The Little Colonel's Holidays 1.50 The Little Colonel's Hero 1.50 The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 1.50 The Little Colonel in Arizona 1.50 The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation 1.50
Other Books
Joel: A Boy of Galilee 1.50 Big Brother .50 Ole Mammy's Torment .50 The Story of Dago .50 Cicely .50 Aunt 'Liza's Hero .50 The Quilt that Jack Built .50 Flip's "Islands of Providence" .50 Mildred's Inheritance .50 In the Desert of Waiting .50 The Three Weavers .50 Keeping Tryst .50 Asa Holmes 1.00 Songs Ysame (Poems, with Albion Fellows Bacon) 1.00
L.C. PAGE & COMPANY 200 Summer Street Boston, Mass.

[Illustration: "THREE PRETTY COLLEGE GIRLS LEANED OVER THE RAILING OF THE UPPER DECK." (See page 1).]

Cosy Corner Series
MILDRED'S INHERITANCE
JUST HER WAY
ANN'S OWN WAY
By
Annie Fellows Johnston
Author of "The Little Colonel" Series, "Big Brother," "The Story of Dago," "Joel: A Boy of Galilee," etc.
Illustrated by
Diantha W. Horne
[Illustration]
Boston L.C. Page & Company 1906
Copyright, 1899 BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION AND SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK
Copyright, 1906 BY L.C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED)
All rights reserved
First Impression, May, 1906
COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U.S.A.
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CONTENTS
PAGE
MILDRED'S INHERITANCE 1
JUST HER WAY 27
ANN'S OWN WAY 55
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ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
"THREE PRETTY COLLEGE GIRLS LEANED OVER THE RAILING OF THE UPPER DECK" (See Page 1) Frontispiece
"BEFORE THE DAY WAS OVER THE TWO WERE TALKING TOGETHER LIKE OLD FRIENDS" 5
"SAT DOWN ON THE BATTERED LITTLE BOX TO WAIT" 11
"SHE READ THAT POOR MUFFIT HAD OVERTAXED HER EYES" 21
"THE PASSING OF THE VILLAGE OMNIBUS WAS AN EXCITING EVENT" 29
"SHE AND MISS BARBARA PORED OVER A MAP OF WASHINGTON" 42
"'I WISH DAISY AVERY COULD SEE HER NOW,' SHE MUTTERED, SAVAGELY" 47
"SAT PERCHED AMONG ITS GUARDED BRANCHES" 56
"IT WAS THE BOX THAT HELD THE GREEN KID SHOES" 63
"ANN FOLLOWED GINGERLY IN THEIR WAKE" 69

MILDRED'S INHERITANCE
As the good ship Majestic went steaming away from the Irish coast, one sunny September morning, three pretty college girls leaned over the railing of the upper deck, watching the steerage passengers below. With faces turned to the shore which they might never see again, the lusty-throated emigrants were sending their song of "Farewell to Erin" floating mournfully back across the water.
"Oh, look at that poor old grandmother!" exclaimed one of the girls. "There; that one sitting on a coil of rope with a shawl over her gray head. The pitiful way she looks back to land would make me homesick, too, if I were not already on my way home, with all my family on board, and all the fun of the sophomore year ahead of me. Let's go down to the other end of the deck, where it is more cheerful."
They moved away in friendly, schoolgirl fashion, arm in arm, intent only on finding as much enjoyment as possible in every moment of this ocean voyage. A young English girl, dressed in deep mourning, who had been standing near them, followed them with a wistful glance; then she turned to look over the railing again at the old woman on the coil of rope.
"I wish that I could change places with her," thought the girl. "She is so old that she cannot have many homesick years in store, while I--left alone in the world at seventeen, and maybe never to see dear old England again--" The thought brought such an overwhelming sense of desolation that she could not control her tears. Drawing her heavy black veil over her face, she hurriedly made her way to her deck-chair, and sank down to sob unseen, under cover of its protecting rugs and cushions.
This was the first time that Mildred Stanhope had ever been outside of the village where she was born. The only child