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قراءة كتاب The Princess of the School
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THE PRINCESS
OF THE SCHOOL
By ANGELA BRAZIL
Author of
"The Luckiest Girl in the School,"
"The Harum-Scarum Schoolgirl,"
"A Popular Schoolgirl,"
"The Head Girl at the Gables."
Illustrated by Frank Wiles.
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with Frederick A. Stokes Company
Printed in U. S. A.
Copyright, 1920, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved
First published in the United States of America, 1921
Contents
| chapter | page | |
|---|---|---|
| I | The Ingleton Family | 1 |
| II | A Stolen Joy-ride | 15 |
| III | A Valentine Party | 33 |
| IV | Disinherited | 50 |
| V | The New Owner | 61 |
| VI | Princess Carmel | 73 |
| VII | An Old Greek Idyll | 88 |
| VIII | Wood Nymphs | 100 |
| IX | The Open Road | 114 |
| X | A Meeting | 129 |
| XI | A Secret Society | 145 |
| XII | White Magic | 157 |
| XIII | The Money-makers | 171 |
| XIV | All in a Mist | 190 |
| XV | On the High Seas | 201 |
| XVI | The Casa Bianca | 215 |
| XVII | Sicilian Cousins | 229 |
| XVIII | A Night of Adventure | 242 |
| XIX | At Palermo | 261 |
| XX | Old England | 271 |
| XXI | Carmel's Kingdom | 283 |
THE PRINCESS OF THE SCHOOL
chapter i
The Ingleton Family
On a certain morning, just a week before Christmas, the little world of school at Chilcombe Hall was awake and stirring at an unusually early hour. Long before the slightest hint of dawn showed in the sky the lamps were lighted in the corridors, maids were scuttling about, bringing in breakfast, and Jones, the gardener, assisted by his eldest boy, a sturdy grinning urchin of twelve, was beginning the process of carrying down piles of hand-bags and hold-alls, and stacking them on a cart which was waiting in the drive outside.
Miss Walters, dreading the Christmas rush on the railway, had determined to take time by the forelock, and meant to pack off her pupils by the first available trains, trusting they would most of them reach their destinations before the overcrowding became a serious problem in the traffic. The pupils