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By Gertrude Page
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A spirited young woman copes with domestic life, fashion worries, and a close, dreamy sister while engaging with a circle of friends and suitors. Social gatherings, comic misadventures, and romantic rivalries give way to darker incidents including illness, loss, and courageous rescues. Parallel courtships and misunderstandings produce a sequence of engagements, explanations, and reconciliations, and the narrative alternates light-hearted scenes with sober reflection as relationships are tested and ultimately settled amid departures and new beginnings.

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Title: Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing

Author: Gertrude Page

Release date: December 6, 2011 [eBook #38237]
Most recently updated: January 30, 2022

Language: English

Credits: Nick Hodson

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Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing

by Gertrude Page

Contents

CHAPTER I. Concerning Paddy’s Blouse.
CHAPTER II. The Misses O’Hara.
CHAPTER III. Eileen the Dreamer.
CHAPTER IV. Paddy’s Adventure.
CHAPTER V. Ted Masterman.
CHAPTER VI. Lawrence Blake.
CHAPTER VII. Lawrence Finds Eileen on the Shingles.
CHAPTER VIII. Paddy’s Pigs.
CHAPTER IX. Concerning a Supper-Dance.
CHAPTER X. A Letter from Calcutta.
CHAPTER XI. The Scrimmage Party.
CHAPTER XII. The Ball.
CHAPTER XIII. Paddy’s Views on Sentimentality.
CHAPTER XIV. The Conservatory and the Den.
CHAPTER XV. Dread and Wrath.
CHAPTER XVI. The First Awakening.
CHAPTER XVII. Brooding Clouds.
CHAPTER XVIII. The Angel of Death.
CHAPTER XIX. In Which the Worst Came.
CHAPTER XX. Explanations.
CHAPTER XXI. Two Love Stories.
CHAPTER XXII. Good-Bye.
CHAPTER XXIII. Gwendoline Carew.
CHAPTER XXIV. Lawrence Hears Some News.
CHAPTER XXV. A Curious Engagement.
CHAPTER XXVI. Paddy Makes Her Cousin’s Acquaintance.
CHAPTER XXVII. Paddy has a Visitor.
CHAPTER XXVIII. The New Home.
CHAPTER XXIX. A Strange Coincidence.
CHAPTER XXX. An Encounter.
CHAPTER XXXI. Paddy Makes a New Friend.
CHAPTER XXXII. Paddy Learns Her Mistake.
CHAPTER XXXIII. Patricia the Great.
CHAPTER XXXIV. Robert Morony on Church Restoration.
CHAPTER XXXV. The Picnic.
CHAPTER XXXVI. The Rescue.
CHAPTER XXXVII. “Stay here with me.”
CHAPTER XXXVIII. Gwen’s Views on Matrimony.
CHAPTER XXXIX. A Christmas Surprise.
CHAPTER XL. A Budget of News.
CHAPTER XLI. In Lawrence’s Den.
CHAPTER XLII. “What would an Irish Fusilier do?”
CHAPTER XLIII. A Man’s Pain.
CHAPTER XLIV. “I Cannot Come.”
CHAPTER XLV. The Invalid.
CHAPTER XLVI. The Solution.