The Complete Patty Series (All 14 Children's Classics in One Volume). Carolyn Wells

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       Carolyn Wells

      The Complete Patty Series (All 14 Children's Classics in One Volume)

      Patty at Home, Patty's Summer Days, Patty in Paris, Patty's Friends, Patty's Success…

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      Table of Contents

       PATTY FAIRFIELD

       PATTY AT HOME

       PATTY'S SUMMER DAYS

       PATTY IN PARIS

       PATTY'S FRIENDS

       PATTY'S SUCCESS

       PATTY'S MOTOR CAR

       PATTY'S BUTTERFLY DAYS

       PATTY'S SOCIAL SEASON

       PATTY'S SUITORS

       PATTY’S FORTUNE

       PATTY BLOSSOM

       PATTY-BRIDE

       PATTY AND AZALEA

      PATTY FAIRFIELD

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       I. Her Father's Plan

       II. Traveling North

       III. New Friends

       IV. Villa Rosa

       V. A Minuet

       VI. Purple and Fine Linen

       VII. A Sleigh-Ride

       VIII. An Absent-Minded Cousin

       IX. The Flemings

       X. Patty's Pranks

       XI. The Book Party

       XII. The Hurly-Burly

       XIII. Home-Made Music

       XIV. A Funny Family

       XV. The Lawn-Party

       XVI. Unbounded Hospitality

       XVII. A Hurly-Burly Fire

       XVIII. At Vernondale

       XIX. A Picnic

       XX. The Rescue

       XXI. A Reading-Club

       XXII. A Welcome Guest

      To my little friend

       M A R I O N A M E S T A G G A R T

      Chapter I.

       Her Father's Plan

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      "How old are you, Patty?" asked her father, abruptly.

      "Fourteen, papa,--why?"

      "My conscience! what a great girl you're getting to be. Stand up and let me look at you."

      Patty Fairfield, with two twists and a spring, brought herself to her feet, and stood awaiting her father's inspection.

      He saw a slender, graceful girl, a Southern blonde of the purest type. Her pretty golden hair would gladly have hung in curly masses, but it was only allowed to have its own sweet will around her temples and at the end of a long thick braid. Her eyes were blue, deep and twinkly, and the rest of her face was as pretty and sweet as soft girlish contours and a perfect complexion could make it.

      But best of all was the gentle expression and frank, good-natured smile which so often broke into mischievous dimples.

      It did on this occasion, and Patty laughed merrily at her father's grave consideration of her.

      "What is it, papa?" she asked. "Did you think I was still an infant, and were you going to buy me a new dolls' house? Or were you going to take me to the circus? I'm not a bit too old for the circus."

      "Aren't you? Then I will take you, but what is on my mind at present is a much more serious matter. Sit down again, Puss, and I'll tell you all about it.

      "You know for years I've looked forward to the time when you should grow up to be old enough to keep house for me. And I thought then we'd go back North and settle down among my people and your mother's relatives. I haven't been North since your mother died, but