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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

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by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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