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Vagabondia, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Title: Vagabondia 1884
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Release Date: June 8, 2008 [EBook #25727]
Language: English
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VAGABONDIA
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY - 1884
AUTHOR'S NOTE.
This my first novel was written several years ago, and published (without any revision by me) first in a ladies' magazine under the name of "Dorothea," and afterwards in book form as "Dolly." For reasons not necessary to state here, all control over the book had passed from my hands. It has been for some time out of print; but, having at last obtained control of the copyright, I have made such corrections as seemed advisable, given it the name I originally intended for it, and now issue it through my regular publishers.
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT.
Washington, November, 1883.
CHAPTER I.
~ IN WHICH WE HOLD COUNSEL.
It was a nondescript sort of a room, taking it altogether. A big, sunny room, whose once handsome papering and corniceing had grown dingy, and whose rich carpeting had lost its color and pile in places, and ye