{"product_id":"2940013613195","title":"MOLLY BROWN'S COLLEGE FRIENDS","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      I.  NANCE OLDHAM                                       7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     II.  BY THE FIRELIGHT                                  21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    III.  THE WOULD-BE'S                                    37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     IV.  FAIRY GODMOTHERS WANTED                           43\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      V.  THE CRITICS                                       67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VI.  \"I HAD A LITTLE HUSBAND NO BIGGER THAN MY THUMB\"  75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VII.  NANCE PACKS HER TRUNK                             93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VIII.  A DAMP COAT                                      102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     IX.  PLANS                                            115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      X.  ALL THE OLD GIRLS                                122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XI.  AN INTERESTING COUPLE                            139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XII.  AN OLD-TIME PARTY                                150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XIII.  ADVENTURE                                        162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIV.  AS SEEN FROM THE SUMMER-HOUSE                    172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XV.  THE PROFESSOR AT A KIMONO PARTY                  177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XVI.  WAR RELIEF                                       187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XVII.  TILL DEATH DOTH US PART                          201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVIII.  THE PUNISHMENT OF MILDRED                        216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIX.  A DEATH                                          222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XX.  GERMS                                            234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXI.  HER FATHER'S OWN DAUGHTER                        244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXII.  THE ARREST                                       260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXIII.  THEY ALSO SERVE                                  272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXIV.  THE TRENCHES                                     284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMolly Brown's College Friends\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNANCE OLDHAM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I am so afraid Nance will be changed,\" sighed Molly as she put the\u003cbr\u003efinishing touches to the room her old friend was to occupy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'll wager anything she is the same old Nance Oldham,\" insisted\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Green, obediently mounting the ladder to hang the last snowy\u003cbr\u003ecurtain at the broad, deep window in the guest chamber overlooking the\u003cbr\u003ecampus. \"I think she is the kind of girl who will always be the same.\u003cbr\u003eIs that straight?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A little bit lower at this end--there! What a comfort you are, Edwin!\"\u003cbr\u003eand Molly viewed the effect approvingly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pretty good general houseworker, eh?\" and the dignified professor of\u003cbr\u003eEnglish at Wellington College ran nimbly down the ladder and hugged his\u003cbr\u003ewife. She submitted with very good grace to his embraces in spite of the\u003cbr\u003efact that the fresh bureau scarves and table covers with which she was\u003cbr\u003epreparing to decorate her old friend's room were included in the\u003cbr\u003edemonstration of affection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Edwin Green always declared that he never expected to catch\u003cbr\u003eup on all the years he had loved Molly Brown and had been forced to let\u003cbr\u003e\"concealment like a worm in the bud feed on his damask cheek.\" He and\u003cbr\u003eMolly had been married almost four years on that day in March when he\u003cbr\u003ewas assisting in the imposing rite of hanging curtains in the guest\u003cbr\u003echamber, and she was still as wonderful to him as she had been on that\u003cbr\u003eday they had walked through the Forest of Fontainebleau and he had\u003cbr\u003econfessed his love. She was the same charming girl who had lingered too\u003cbr\u003elong in the cloisters and been locked in to be rescued by him on her\u003cbr\u003efirst day at college, now so many years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndeed, Molly Brown has changed very little since last we saw her.\u003cbr\u003eLittle Mildred is walking and talking and singing little tunes and\u003cbr\u003esaying Mother Goose rhymes. She even knows her letters upside down and\u003cbr\u003eno other way, having learned them from blocks, presumably standing on\u003cbr\u003eher curly head as she acquired the knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is another baby in the nursery now: little Dodo, whose real name\u003cbr\u003eis George, a remarkably satisfactory infant who sleeps when he should\u003cbr\u003eand wakes in a good humor, taking the proper nourishment at the proper\u003cbr\u003ehours and going back to sleep. Molly had learned the great secret of\u003cbr\u003eyoung motherhood from her first born: not to take parenthood too\u003cbr\u003esolemnly and seriously, and to realize that Mother Nature is the very\u003cbr\u003ebest mother of all and babies thrive most when left as much as possible\u003cbr\u003eto her all-wise and tender care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNance Oldham, Molly's old friend and roommate at college, was coming at\u003cbr\u003elast to make her long promised visit to the Greens. Little wonder that\u003cbr\u003eMolly feared she would be changed! Nance's path in life had not been\u003cbr\u003estrewn with roses. No doubt my readers will remember that Mrs. Oldham,\u003cbr\u003eher mother, was a clever woman, lecturer, suffrage agitator, anything\u003cbr\u003ebut a homemaker.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147589828848,"sku":"2940013613195","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013613195_p0.jpg?v=1763583406","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013613195","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}