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Title: The Goose Girl
Author: Harold MacGrath
Release Date: January 5, 2005 [eBook #14598]
Language: English
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THE GOOSE GIRL
by
HAROLD MACGRATH
With Illustrations by Andre Castaigne
Indianapolis The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers
1909
[Illustration: They acclaimed her the queen.]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I SOME IN RAGS
II AN AMERICAN CONSULT
III FOR HER COUNTRY
IV THE YOUNG VINTNER
V A COMPATRIOT
VI AT THE BLACK EAGLE
VII AN ELDER BROTHER
VIII THE KING'S LETTER
IX GRETCHEN'S DAY
X AFFAIRS OF STATE
XI THE SOCIALISTS
XII LOVE'S DOUBTS
XIII A DAY DREAM
XIV FIND THE WOMAN
XV THE WRONG MAN
XVI HER FAN
XVII AFTER THE VINTAGE
XVIII A WHITE SCAR
XIX DISCLOSURES
XX THE KING
XXI TWIN LOCKETS
XXII A LITTLE FINGER
XXIII HAPPINESS
CHAPTER I
SOME IN RAGS
An old man, clothed in picturesque patches and tatters, paused and
leaned on his stout oak staff. He was tired. He drew off hi