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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
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Short Stories 1907 to 1908
Millionaire's Proposal 1907
A Substitute Journalist 1907
Anna's Love Letters 1908
Aunt Caroline's Silk Dress 1907
Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner 1907
By Grace of Julius Caesar 1908
By the Rule of Contrary 1908
Fair Exchange and No Robbery 1907
Four Winds 1908
Marcella's Reward 1907
Margaret's Patient 1908
Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves 1908
Missy's Room 1907
Ted's Afternoon Off 1907
The Girl Who Drove the Cows 1908
The Doctor's Sweetheart 1908
The End of the Young Family Feud 1907
The Genesis of the Doughnut Club 1907
The Growing Up of Cornelia 1908
The Old Fellow's Letter 1907
The Parting of the Ways 1907
The Promissory Note 1907
The Revolt of Mary Isabel 1908
The Twins and a Wedding 1908
A Millionaire's Proposal
Thrush Hill, Oct. 5, 18--.
It is all settled at last, and in another week I shall have left Thrush Hill. I am a little bit sorry and a great bit glad. I am going to Montreal to spend the winter with Alicia.
Alicia--it used to be plain Alice when she lived at Thrush Hill and made her own dresses and trimmed her own hats--is my half-sister. She is eight years older than I am. We are both orphans, and Aunt Elizabeth brought us up here at Thrush Hill, the most delightful old country place in the world, half smothered in big willows and poplars, every one of which I have climbed in the early tomboy days of gingham pinafores and sun-bonnets.
When Alicia was eighteen she married Roger Gresham, a man of forty. The world said that she married him for his money. I dare say she did. Alicia was tired of poverty.
I don't blame her. Very likely I shall do the same thing one of these days, if I get the chance--for I too am tired of povert
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908, page 1
by Lucy Maud Montgomery