Part 1

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When Patty Went to College

Jean Webster

With Illustrations by C. D. Williams

New York The Century Co. 1903

Copyright, 1903, by THE CENTURY CO.

Copyright, 1901, 1902, by TRUTH CO.

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Published March, 1903

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THE DEVINNE PRESS

TO 234 MAIN AND THE GOOD TIMES WE HAVE HAD THERE

Contents

PAGE I PETERS THE SUSCEPTIBLE 1 II AN EARLY FRIGHT 21 III THE IMPRESSIONABLE MR. TODHUNTER 39 IV A QUESTION OF ETHICS 57 V THE ELUSIVE KATE FERRIS 73 VI A STORY WITH FOUR SEQUELS 89 VII IN PURSUIT OF OLD ENGLISH 103 VIII THE DECEASED ROBERT 121 IX PATTY THE COMFORTER 133 X "PER L'ITALIA" 147 XI "LOCAL COLOR" 177 XII THE EXIGENCIES OF ETIQUETTE 203 XIII A CRASH WITHOUT 215 XIV THE MYSTERY OF THE SHADOWED SOPHOMORE 237 XV PATTY AND THE BISHOP 257

List of Illustrations

FACING PAGE

Patty Frontispiece

Men know such a lot about such things! 18

Mr. Algernon Vivian Todhunter, gingerly sitting on the edge of a chair 54

What's the matter, Patty? 110

Olivia Copeland 172

I have just run away from you, Bishop Copeley 266

Peters the Susceptible

"Paper-weights," observed Patty, sucking an injured thumb, "were evidently not made for driving in tacks. I wish I had a hammer."

This remark called forth no response, and Patty peered down from the top of the step-ladder at her room-mate, who was sitting on the floor dragging sofa-pillows and curtains from a dry-goods box.

"Priscilla," she begged, "you aren't doing anything useful. Go down and ask Peters for a hammer."

Priscilla rose reluctantly. "I dare say fifty girls have already been after a hammer."

"Oh, he has a private one in his back pocket. Borrow that. And, Pris,"--Patty called after her over the transom,--"just tell him to send up a man to take that closet door off its hinges."