Excerpt: ...exclaimed: "What a place for good times!" "I shall 'come out' here," Nancy announced, as the three girls stood in the centre of the floor, surrounded by bedsteads, tables, bureaus, and stoves. "Julia, you can 'debut' where you like, but I shall 'come out' here next summer!" "You'll be only seventeen; you can't come out!" objected Julia conventionally. "Not in a drawing room, perhaps, but perfectly well in a barn. Even you and Kitty, youthful as you will still be, can attend my coming out party, in a barn!" "It ...
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Excerpt: ...exclaimed: "What a place for good times!" "I shall 'come out' here," Nancy announced, as the three girls stood in the centre of the floor, surrounded by bedsteads, tables, bureaus, and stoves. "Julia, you can 'debut' where you like, but I shall 'come out' here next summer!" "You'll be only seventeen; you can't come out!" objected Julia conventionally. "Not in a drawing room, perhaps, but perfectly well in a barn. Even you and Kitty, youthful as you will still be, can attend my coming out party, in a barn!" "It doesn't seem proper to think of giving entertainments when everybody knows our circumstances, -how poor we are!" Julia said rebukingly. "We are talking of next summer, my child! Who can say how rich we shall be next summer? A party could be given in this barn with mother to play the piano and Mr. Popham the fiddle. The refreshments would be incredibly weak lemonade, and I think we might 'solicit' the cake, as they do for church sociables!" Julia's pride was wounded beyond concealment at this humorously intended suggestion of Nancy's. "Of course if Aunt Margaret approves, I have nothing to say," she remarked, "but I myself would never come to any private party where refreshments were 'solicited.' The very idea is horrible." "I'm 'coming out' in the barn next summer, Muddy!" Nancy called to her mother, who just then entered the door. "If we are poorer than ever, we can take up a collection to defray the expenses; Julia and Kitty would look so attractive going about with tambourines! I want to do what I can quickly, because I see plainly I shall have to marry young in order to help the family. The heroine always does that in books; she makes a worldly marriage with a rich nobleman, in order that her sister Kitty and her cousin Julia may have a good education." "I don't know where you get your ideas, Nancy," said her mother, smiling at her nonsense. "You certainly never read half a dozen novels in your life!" "No, but Joanna used to read them by...
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Fair. No DJ. Book Light green boards with pictorial stamping of house and birds on front board. Boards with some staining, light soil. Corners bumped. Spine sunned, ends frayed. Binding broken at title page and rear hinge, still intact with webbing visible at both breaks. Front hinge with good deal of play. Title page with about 3" tear at lower edge. Intact, but for one catalog page at rear of book loose, laid-in. Otherwise, no missing pages. Contents unmarked. Reading copy. Size: 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall.
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Fair. No Jacket. Octavo. Original owner's name, 1925 date and later owner's name written on ffep. Hinges starting. Worn extremities with fading on back cover.
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Fair with No dust jacket as issued. Spine worn at both ends. Spine lettering faded. Minor cover rubbing. Owner name. Stamp from lending library--no other library markings. Three small Christmas stickers on endpaper. Contents clean and tight.; Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall.
If you love the movie from Disney, "Summer Magic" you can get the rest of the story or at least the complete story. The characters are well developed, story line is complete. The end of the book completes what the movie didn't. I highly recommend it.
