A POPULAR SCHOOLGIRL
by
ANGELA BRAZIL
Illustrated by Balliol Salmon
New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers Copyright, 1920, by Frederick A. Stokes Company All Rights Reserved First published in the United States of America, 1921
[Illustration: UNDER THE LANTERNS _Chapter XX_]
CONTENTS
I. The End of the Holidays
II. Opening Day
III. Wynch-on-the-Wold
IV. Intruder Bess
V. The Fifth-form Fete
VI. The School Parliament
VII. Hockey
VIII. An Unpleasant Experience
IX. A Hostel Frolic
X. The Whispering Stones
XI. On Strike
XII. The Rainbow League
XIII. Quenrede Comes Out
XIV. The Peep-hole
XV. Brotherly Breezes
XVI. An Easter Pilgrimage
XVII. The Rivals
XVIII. Bess at Home
XIX. The Nun's Walk
XX. Under the Lanterns
XXI. The Abbey Recital
Illustrations
Under the Lanterns
"Let's Call ourselves the Foursome League"
A Friend in Need
"You look _nice_--you do, _really_, with your hair down"
"You may think you know everything, Bess Haselford, but you don't know this!"
A Tall Figure, clothed in some White Garment, was gliding towards them
A POPULAR SCHOOLGIRL
CHAPTER I
The End of the Holidays
"Ingred! Ingred, old girl! I say, Ingred! Wherever have you taken yourself off to?" shouted a boyish voice, as its owner, jumping an obstructing gooseberry bush, tore around the corner of the house from the kitchen garden on to the strip of rough lawn that faced the windows. "Hullo! Cuckoo! Coo-ee! _In_-gred!"
"I'm here all the time, so you needn't bawl!" came in resigned tones from under the shade of a large fuchsia. "You're enough to wake the dead, Chumps! What is it you want now! It's too hot to go a walk till after tea. I'm trying to get ten minutes peace and quiet!"
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Popular Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil
- 2: To Ingred they were halcyon days
- 3: Ingred welcomed an excursion in the sidecar
- 4: Rotherwood was given over to the wounded soldiers
- 5: It was a grievance to Quenrede that
- 6: CHAPTER IIOpening Day The Girls' College at Grovebury
- 7: And there's a new mistress for VB
- 8: The Member of Parliament for Grovebury
- 9: I suppose you'll be getting in Rotherwood soon
- 10: You won't mention Rotherwood to Ingred again
- 11: Let's call ourselves 'The Foursome League
- 12: Ingred and Verity among the number
- 13: Stretched out fingers as far as Wynchcote
- 14: Ingred was joined in the tram car by Hereward
- 15: Ingred sprang to her feet in alarm
- 16: CHAPTER IVIntruder Bess Ingred
- 17: Music was a favorite subject with Ingred
- 18: Ingred began to wonder whether
- 19: Considering that she lives at Rotherwood
- 20: Miss Burd had instituted many innovations and changes
- 21: Whose basket contained two thermos flasks
- 22: They grew in the vinery at Rotherwood
- 23: Ingred found herself occupying the mistress's place
- 24: Ingred was at once escorted to the piano
- 25: Declared Lispeth encouragingly
- 26: It's those wretched kids in IVB
- 27: Of course I know that Emulation
- 28: Miss Burd had great confidence in Lispeth
- 29: The head prefect pinned a paper on the notice board
- 30: The schoolgirls of to day are the women of to morrow
- 31: Ingred sat for a moment or two
- 32: A town ten miles away from Grovebury
- 33: It was known that the Old Clintonians were a strong team
- 34: It is ten miles from here to Denscourt
- 35: Ingred hit the ball out to her wing
- 36: Of course Ingred was the heroine of the hour
- 37: Repeated the collector automatically
- 38: And we could catch a train at Waverley station
- 39: The chimneys of Waverley were in sight
- 40: Having successfully punted over Beatrice and Verity also
- 41: Said Ingred through her set teeth
- 42: CHAPTER IXA Hostel Frolic The Foursome League
- 43: At a select Foursome Committee after school
- 44: Was difficult to identify as Fil
- 45: And be sure the trestles are in their right places this time
- 46: Who generally mothered the hostel
- 47: In an instant Ingred was very wide awake indeed
- 48: Pooh poohed his boy's business efforts
- 49: Going once a week to the School of Art at Grovebury
- 50: Decreed Quenrede with sisterly firmness
- 51: Confided details of the occult ceremonial to Quenrede
- 52: Quenrede looked through a veil of wind blown hair
- 53: Broughten knows all about the old barrow
- 54: And Ingred was passing through an ultra sensitive phase
- 55: Belonging respectively to Ingred Saxon
- 56: Ingred gasped with amazed indignation
- 57: Ingred walked back to her desk covered with humiliation
- 58: Said Lispeth a little doubtfully
- 59: Miss Willough gazed at them meditatively
- 60: CHAPTER XIIThe Rainbow League Though Lispeth
- 61: I'm sick to death of making booklets
- 62: It was a new phase of Quenrede
- 63: Ingred felt too scared to begin
- 64: And presented it quite innocently to Lispeth
- 65: Rather patronizingly to Ingred
- 66: I'm aiming at higher things than Rotherwood
- 67: Proclaimed Quenrede petulantly
- 68: And though Quenrede had many interests
- 69: Quenrede might have enjoyed herself
- 70: Wandering into the conservatory presently
- 71: And particularly at the Hostel
- 72: I don't see the verger anywhere about
- 73: And along this Ingred decided to venture
- 74: Queenie detests those Bertrand girls
- 75: A remark over which Ingred pondered
- 76: Catching Ingred by the gate with Derry
- 77: Ingred put Derry down on the hearth rug
- 78: Thought Ingred on Sunday afternoon
- 79: What do you know about Miss Bertrand
- 80: Saxon questioned Ingred closely
- 81: Why shouldn't a footballer look gallant and present trophies
- 82: It was only a short journey to Carford
- 83: Primroses grew in clumps under the hedgerows
- 84: Invited her form mates to charming parties at Rotherwood
- 85: Ryton was a delightful little village
- 86: Leading from Ryton on the Heath to Dropwick
- 87: Having booked rooms in Dropwick
- 88: Felicius Simplex of the Sixth Legion
- 89: Ingred kept repeating to herself
- 90: I trusted to Verity telling you
- 91: Reached Pursborough without further adventure
- 92: She had secretly envied her the possession of Rotherwood
- 93: During the occupation of Rotherwood by the Red Cross
- 94: She bade Bess a reluctant good by
- 95: So you are not really telling a fib
- 96: The hostel felt justly proud of her achievements
- 97: Ingred successfully reached the top
- 98: Ingred pricked up her ears at this
- 99: Fil was clutching already at Nora's hand
- 100: Ingred and Verity felt shivers run down their spines
- 101: Enlisted the help of Mother and Quenrede
- 102: The hostel piano had been pulled close to the window
- 103: And looked dubiously at the sabots
- 104: As Ingred gazed for a moment in perplexity
- 105: She and Ingred would try over a few pieces
- 106: That Ingred colored with pleasure
- 107: Haselford the elder proved a delightful old gentleman
- 108: Linton was looking in her direction
- 109: Haselford had even gone further
- 110: Lispeth was looking straight at Ingred as she spoke