AND HER BRIDESMAID S. BY THE AUTHOR OF "WOMAN'S DEVOTION." "Queen Rose of the Rosebud garden of girls."-TENNYSON. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1856. 249. X. 94. MARGARET AND HER BRIDESMAIDS. CHAPTER I. In a small room, furnished so as to indicate its purport-a study-sat four girls. One placed rather apart from the others, occupied herself in some fancy-work, denoting by this, as well as by her age and appearance, that she was no longer a school-girl; neither could she be mistaken for a governess. Her rich dress and patrician air, rather pointed her out as a parlour-boarder among those who were diligently occupied in painting and drawing. VOL. I. B |