A classic girls’ school story by Angela Brazil. It follows Gwen Gascoyne, the youngest girl in the Fifth, as she navigates lessons, friendships and school mishaps. Warm and lively, it offers an engaging glimpse of school life and a likeable heroine.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
GWEN IS CAUGHT BY THE STORM GWEN IS CAUGHT BY THE STORM The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story BY ANGELA BRAZIL Author of “The Leader of the Lower School” “A Pair of Schoolgirls” “The New Girl at St. Chad's” “A Fourth Form Friendship” &c. ILLUSTRATED BY STANLEY DAVIS BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
Contents Chap. Page I. An Unexpected Remove 9 II. The Gascoyne Girls 19 III. A False Step 29 IV. A Delicate Transaction 39 V. Trouble in the Fifth 53 VI. A Casting Vote 61 VII. Dick Chambers 74 VIII. Gwen Receives a Letter 85 IX. Keeping Christmas 98 X. A Prodigal 110 XI. A Prize Essay 121 XII. Gwen Turns Henwife 132 XIII. The Shoe Pinches 145 XIV. Gwen meets Trouble 157 XV. Storm Clouds 169 XVI. First Aid 179 XVII. A Pressing Account 190 XVIII. Gwen's Bright Idea 204 XIX. A School Gymkhana 218 XX. A Day of Reckoning 234 XXI. Retribution 250 XXII. The Tennis Tournament 264 XXIII. Gwen to the Rescue 277 XXIV. The Senior Oxford 287 Illustrations
Page Gwen is Caught by the Storm Frontispiece 116 Gwen meets Dick 46 "Things go so hardly with me somehow, Dad" 119 "Oh, I say, well caught!" 165 "Yes, you can easily go miles out of your way" 175 "It was Basil who spied him first" 295 THE YOUNGEST GIRL IN THE FIFTH CHAPTER I An Unexpected Remove "Gwen! Gwen Gascoyne! Gwen! Anybody seen her? I say, have you all gone deaf? Don't you hear me? Where's Gwen? I—want —Gwen—Gascoyne!" The speaker—Ida Bridge—a small, perky, spindle-legged Junior, jumped on to the nearest seat, and raising her shrill voice to its topmost pitch, twice shouted the "Gwen Gascoyne", with an aggressive energy calculated to make herself heard above the babel of general chatter that pervaded the schoolroom. Her effort, though far from musical, at any rate secured her the notice she desired.
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