Five Little Peppers Grown Up

By: Sidney, Margaret

Book Excerpt: ...lly merrily, with a tender glance for the orchid. "Well, how's Baby?""He is very nice," said Phronsie, with a grown-up air, "and didn't cry a bit for Mamsie. And now if you are really all right, Polly, I'll go up to the nursery and look at him.""So I would," said Polly approvingly. "Yes, I'm all right; see, I'm on my chop No. 2."Phronsie smiled with great satisfaction at this, and went off. At a quarter of seven, Polly, in a storm of remonstrance from all but one, hurried off to help poor Amy Loughead through her Slough of Despond.Jasper alone, just arrived for dinner, was the only one who remained silent when the storm of disapproval broke forth over Polly and her doings. After the first astonished exclamation, he had absolutely refused to say anything save "Polly knows best.""I don't know how to thank you," said Polly out in the wide hall, where he hurried to meet her, as she ran downstairs with her plainest walking things on, "for I don't believe they would have let me go. I never saw M...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08JB1M5LF
• ISBN13: 9798681193913
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"