Excerpt: ... can't understand it," said Mr. Maynard, as they flew along the country roads. "This Geary person doesn't sound like a kidnapper, yet why else would Midget go with him?" "I'm only afraid it wasn't Marjorie," returned Mr. Bryant. "But we shall soon know." Marjorie had worked hard all day. Partly because she wanted to prove herself a good worker, and partly because, if she stopped to think, her troubles seemed greater than she could bear. But a little after five o'clock everything was Pg 148 done, supper prepared, ...
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Excerpt: ... can't understand it," said Mr. Maynard, as they flew along the country roads. "This Geary person doesn't sound like a kidnapper, yet why else would Midget go with him?" "I'm only afraid it wasn't Marjorie," returned Mr. Bryant. "But we shall soon know." Marjorie had worked hard all day. Partly because she wanted to prove herself a good worker, and partly because, if she stopped to think, her troubles seemed greater than she could bear. But a little after five o'clock everything was Pg 148 done, supper prepared, and the child sat down on the kitchen steps to rest. She was tired, sad, and desolate. The slight excitement of novelty was gone, the bravery and courage of the morning hours had disappeared, and a great wave of homesickness enveloped her very soul. She was too lonely and homesick even to cry, and she sat, a pathetic, drooped little figure, on the old tumble-down porch. She heard the toot of a motor-horn, but it was a familiar sound to her, and she paid no attention to it. Then she heard it again, very near, and looked up to see her father and Cousin Jack frantically waving, as the car fairly flew, over many minor obstacles, straight to that kitchen doorway. "Marjorie!" cried Mr. Maynard, leaping out before the wheels had fairly stopped turning, and in another instant she was folded in that dear old embrace. "Oh, Father, Father!" she cried, hysterically clinging to him, "take me home, take me home!" "Of course I will, darling," said Mr. Maynard's quivering voice, as he held her close and stroked her hair with trembling fingers. "That's what we've come for. Here's Cousin Jack, too." And then Midget felt more kisses on her forehead, and a hearty pat on her back, as a voice, not quite steady, but determinedly cheerful, said: Pg 149 "Brace up now, Mehitabel, we want you to go riding with us." Marjorie looked up, with a sudden smile, and then again buried her face on her father's shoulder and almost strangled him as she flung her arms round his...
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Add this copy of Marjorie at Seacote to cart. $5.00, fair condition, Sold by Pepper's Old Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hanson, KY, UNITED STATES, published 1912 by Grosset & Dunlap.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. NOT an ex library book. Blue book has slight fade on spine, small white spots on bottom edge. 288 pages plus publisher ads. Glossy frontis. Older style dust jacket of Marjorie sitting on the grass at a picnic. White background shows some soil. Minimal wear spine edges. 1/4" chip on corner. This is the last title of six listed for the MARJORIE series.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 7 1/2"; NOT an ex library book. 288 pages plus publisher ads. Glossy frontis. Dust jacket has closed tear splits on edges of spine. This is the last title of six listed for the MARJORIE series.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Book NOT ex-library. Purple-stamped lemon yellow cloth. Markered-out name front illus. endpaper. No names, clean text. With ads. Heavily chipped, still attractive dust jacket. 20988 CF shelf.
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