HOPE BENHAM.

A Story for Girls.

By NORA PERRY

AUTHOR OF "LYRICS AND LEGENDS," "ANOTHER FLOCK OF GIRLS," "A ROSEBUD GARDEN OF GIRLS," ETC.

Illustrated by
FRANK T. MERRILL.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

Copyright, 1894,
By Nora Perry.

Printers
S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U. S. A.

"Ten cents a bunch"

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.

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"Ten cents a bunch"

"He lifted the bow and drew it across the strings"

"She took Hope's violin from her hands"

"It was the work of a moment to possess herself of the book"

"How de do, Hope?"

"She stood there an image of grace, her chin bent lovingly down to her violin"

"Don't, don't go"

"Hope knelt down by the couch where Dorothea had flung herself"

HOPE BENHAM.

CHAPTER I.

"Ten cents a bunch! ten cents a bunch!"

A party of three young girls coming briskly around the southwest corner of the smart little Brookside station, hearing this call, turned, then stopped, then exclaimed all together,—

"Oh, how perfectly lovely! the first I have seen. Just what I want!" and they pulled out their purses to buy "just what they wanted," just what everybody wants,—a bunch of trailing arbutus.

"And they are made up so prettily, without all that stiff arbor-vitæ framing. What is this dear little leafy border?" asked one of the young ladies, glancing up from her contemplation of the flowers to the flower-seller.

"It's the partridge-berry leaf."

"Oh! and you picked them all yourself,—the arbutus and this partridge-berry leaf?"