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How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl

Chapter 6 AUNT SUSAN ARRIVES

Word Count: 1132    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

Susan. She would arrive on Friday. This was Thursday. Grand

jaculated Mr. Hollister. "It was ki

lized that her husband trusted and had faith in her and that Ethel was furtively watching her, so she said: "Well, Archie, perhaps I was a little selfish in asking Aunt Susa

ossible that you had only that idea in y

d please your mother, and I could kill

oticed it when he brought home his disreputable looking friends

pleasant. I would like you to take her out and show her everything, and Gran

make it pleasant," repli

wife, Mr. Hollister left the

s share of her money. Why, she'd probably leave my brother John and me a remembrance anyway, and you and Kate would benefit by it. Well, this is a strange world, my child. I wish your mother was less politic, but I pre

"I may never marry, and then you and I c

e wore a bunch of tight frizzes under a little flat velvet hat with strings, something of the style of 1879. Her gown was of black made with a full skirt trimmed with black satin bands. She wore an old-

nd wept. Ethel was mentally hoping that Aunt Susan would purchase some modern clothes or that none of her fashionable friends would meet her, for among them were some who would laugh at the old lady, and the girl felt that she'

other for a drive. She dared not demur. Had she not promised her father to do everything for Aunt Susan? Could she hurt her dear grandmoth

ant's Tomb, where Aunt Susan insisted upon getting out. Fortunately Ethel encountered no one whom she knew, but as they were driving up Lafayette Boulevard they passed Estelle Mason, one of her swell friends.

ver speak to Estelle again, the rude upstart! They say she prides herself on her family, bu

, "you're looking badly. Your che

lied. "I always grow red

seen it all and

n the Carpenter family,

l, dear, do, and tie

and to her joy the

Hollister confided to Ethel that really

know all about her and her grandparents. My dear child, her grandmother used to be a waitress way out West where her grandfather ow

how did you know

old New York families, my dear. Remember I

Ethel fel

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How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl
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“Excerpt: ...to keep in his hand at the supreme moment. He also directed Ruys de Velasco to take from a special shrine-which he had indicated to him six years before-a crucifix which the emperor his father had held upon his death-bed. All this was accomplished according to his wish. He had already made arrangements for his funeral procession, and had subsequently provided all the details of his agony. It was now necessary to give orders as to the particulars of his burial. He knew that decomposition had made such progress even while he was still living as to render embalming impossible: He accordingly instructed Don Christopher to see his body wrapped in a shroud just as it lay, and to cause it to be placed in a well-soldered metallic coffin already provided. The coffin of state, in which the leaden one was to be enclosed, was then brought into the chamber by his command, that he might see if it was entirely to his taste. Having examined it, he ordered that it should be lined with white satin and ornamented with gold nails and lace-work. He also described a particular brocade of black and gold, to be found in the jewelroom, which he desired for the pall. Next morning he complained to Don Christopher that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper had not been administered to him for several days. It was urged that his strength was deemed insufficient, and that, as he had received that rite already four times during his illness, and extreme unction twice, it was thought that the additional fatigue might be spared him. But as the king insisted, the sacrament was once more performed and prayers were read. He said with great fervour many times, \"Pater, non mea voluntas, sed tux fiat.\" He listened, too, with much devotion to the Psalm, \"As the hart panteth for the water-brooks;\" and he spoke faintly at long intervals of the Magdalen, of the prodigal son, and of the paralytic. When these devotional exercises had been concluded, father Diego expressed the hope to him that...”
1 Chapter 1 A FASHIONABLE MOTHER2 Chapter 2 ETHEL HOLLISTER3 Chapter 3 GRANDMOTHER HOLLISTER4 Chapter 4 A PINK TEA5 Chapter 5 AN INVITATION TO AUNT SUSAN6 Chapter 6 AUNT SUSAN ARRIVES7 Chapter 7 AUNT SUSAN MAKES FRIENDS8 Chapter 8 ETHEL IS INVITED TO VISIT9 Chapter 9 ETHEL AND AUNT SUSAN START10 Chapter 10 THE JOURNEY11 Chapter 11 THE NEXT DAY12 Chapter 12 ETHEL LEARNS TO COOK13 Chapter 13 A LITTLE DRIVE14 Chapter 14 SOME CONFIDENCES15 Chapter 15 A NEW ETHEL16 Chapter 16 AUNT SUSAN'S TRIALS17 Chapter 17 COUSIN KATE ARRIVES18 Chapter 18 SELECTING THE COSTUME19 Chapter 19 ETHEL MEETS HER UNCLE AND AUNT20 Chapter 20 GATHERING OF THE OHIOS 21 Chapter 21 THE TRIP UP THE RIVER22 Chapter 22 AN EVENING IN CAMP23 Chapter 23 THE LEGEND OF THE MUSKINGUM RIVER24 Chapter 24 ETHEL'S FIRST DAY IN CAMP25 Chapter 25 ETHEL'S FIRST LESSON26 Chapter 26 A LOSS AND A DINNER27 Chapter 27 A DISCOVERY28 Chapter 28 MATTIE'S STORY29 Chapter 29 MATTIE STARTS AFRESH30 Chapter 30 AUNT SUSAN COMES31 Chapter 31 BACK TO AUNT SUSAN'S