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[Illustration: "THERE WERE VOICES PASSING HER DOOR."
(_See page 75_)]
Cosy Corner Series
CICELY
AND OTHER STORIES
By
Annie Fellows Johnston
Author of
"The Little Colonel's House Party," "The Little
Colonel's Holidays," "Two Little Knights
of Kentucky," etc.
_Illustrated by_
Sears Gallagher and others
Boston
L.C. Page & Company
1903
_Copyright, 1901_
BY PERRY MASON COMPANY
_Copyright, 1902_
BY L.C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)
_All rights reserved_
Published, May, 1902
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
These stories first appeared in the _Youth's Companion_ and _Forward_.
The author wishes to acknowledge the courtesy of the editors in
permitting her to republish them in the present volume.
Messrs. L.C. Page & Company wish also to acknowledge the courtesy of
the editors, by which they were able to arrange for the use of the
original illustrations.
CONTENTS
PAGE
CICELY 11
ALIDA'S HOMELINESS 35
THE HAND OF DOUGLAS 59
ELSIE'S "PALMISTRY EVENING" 87
THEIR ANCESTRAL LATCH-STRING 111
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
"THERE WERE VOICES PASSING HER DOOR"
(_See page 75_) _Frontispiece_
"THE CHEER AND WARMTH OF IT ALL COMFORTED HER" 31
"HID HER FACE IN A GREAT BUNCH OF ROSES" 55
"'WHY, I HAVE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THEM'" 67
"'WHAT IS THE MATTER?' HE REPEATED" 78
"IT WAS NOT HER VOICE ALONE WHICH DREW SO MANY ADMIRERS" 83
"'SHE HID HER FACE ON MY SHOULDER'" 100
"'LOOKING AT HER HAND A DOZEN TIMES A DAY'" 103
"'ASKED ME TO HUNT UP ALL THE REFERENCES'" 108
"PAUSING IN HER SCRUBBING" 116
"SHE ENTERTAINED THEM WITH STORIES OF HER TRAVELS" 122
"AT THE GATE HE TURNED FOR A LONG BACKWARD LOOK" 127
"'YOU NEEDN'T LOOK AT ME IN THAT WAY,' SHE WHISPERED, DEFIANTLY" 133
CICELY
CICELY
There was a noisy whir of sewing-machines in Madame Levaney's large
dressmaking establishment.
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