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VIVIAN’S LESSON

[Illustration: They made such a pretty picture that there was quite a
burst of applause.

V. L. PAGE 33.]





VIVIAN’S LESSON

    By
    ELIZABETH W. GRIERSON
    Author of
    ‘Children’s Tales from Scottish Ballads,’
    ‘The Children’s Book of Edinburgh,’ &c.


    WITH TEN ILLUSTRATIONS
    by
    Hilda Cowham


[Illustration]


    LONDON AND EDINBURGH
    W. & R. CHAMBERS, LIMITED
    Philadelphia: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
    1907




    Edinburgh:
    Printed by W. & R. Chambers, Limited.




CONTENTS.


    CHAPTER                                      PAGE
        I. WHAT BEGAN IT                            1
       II. AN INVITATION                           11
      III. GOING TO LONDON                         19
       IV. THE CHRISTMAS TREE                      29
        V. A FALSE STEP                            40
       VI. A GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK                 54
      VII. ANOTHER INVITATION                      70
     VIII. THE BROKEN WINDOWS                      80
       IX. THE MAN IN THE SUMMER-HOUSE             92
        X. BURGLARS                               103
       XI. THE DOCTOR’S VISIT                     121
      XII. THE DARK SHADOW                        135
     XIII. A DREARY HOMECOMING                    156
      XIV.