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A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD PHILADELPHIA

By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS

A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York

Copyright, 1890,
by
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY.

TO MR. AND MRS. HENRY HORTON LAWRENCE.

The early youth of an old town has a certain simplicity like the youthof human life. Its struggles, its romance, its unfolding come downthrough the earnest hands that have labored for its welfare and leftimperishable monuments. To the legacies of remembrances you have hadhanded down to you, I add this little story of a long ago time, a posyculled from quaint gardens.

With sincere regard,

AMANDA M. DOUGLAS.

Newark, N.J., 1899.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Here and There, 1

II. Bessy Wardour, 14

III. In a New World, 29

IV. Of Many Things, 44

V. A Bouleversement, 58

VI. To the Rescue, 74

VII. At Some Crossroads, 87

VIII. A Little Rebel, 104

IX. Fate To the Fore, 122

X. To Turn and Fight, 134

XI. A Rift of Suspicion, 150

XII. True To Her Colors, 167

XIII. Under the Rose, 183

XIV. For Native Land and Loyalty, 200

XV. Parting, 215

XVI. Love and True Love, 231

XVII. Mid War's Alarms, 238...