Sister Sue

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Sister Sue (1921)
by Eleanor H. Porter

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Edition: Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921.

A posthumous book by the author of "Pollyanna".... Sister Sue was so called because "to any questions you asked of any of the family there was only one answer: 'Sister Sue will know'; 'Sister Sue will do it'." Sister Sue had dreamed of becoming a pianist and of hearing audiences shout, "Encore! Encore! Susanna Gilmore! Encore!" Instead her dreams were sacrificed in order that she might care for an impoverished and stricken father and an inordinately selfish brother and sister—such as one meets in many a family. Even her suitor fails her; but Sister Sue is never vanquished and in the end—well, in the end everything is very satisfactory. —from The Bookman, July 1921. [Full review on the Discussion page]

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HE ROARED—AND SCOLDED—AND SNAPPED—AND SNARLED

(page 252)

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SISTER SUE

BY
ELEANOR H. PORTER

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside press Cambridge
1921

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY THE BUTTERICK PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

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To the innumerable

SISTER SUES

All over the world who, patient and uncom-
plaining, have lived their "barren" lives with
the "life worth while" ever beckoning them
from afar, and especially

to certain very dear "Sister Sues"

personally known to me but whose modesty
forbids my mentioning them here by name

THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

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I.—The Petty Details 1
II.—All for Love 15
III.—Cousin Abby 27
IV.—"Last Things" 49
V.—Gilmoreville 65
VI.—Days of Adjustment 78
VII.—What does it Matter? 89
VIII.—Visitors and Consequences 106
IX.—Foundations 122
X.—Old Home Week 129
XI.—Donald Kendall 149
XII.—Greetings and Encores 165
XIII.—Departing Guests 177
XIV.—A "Best Seller" and a Postponed Marriage 201
XV.—Revelations 209
XVI.—Some Readjustments 224
XVII.—One Week in June 235
XVIII.—The Lure of a Golden Curl 240
XIX.—A Broken Arm 247
XX.—Mists, Sunshine, and Clouds 256
XXI.—The Revolt 272
XXII.—The Life Worth While 281
XXIII.—The Opportunity 293

ILLUSTRATIONS

He roared—and scolded—and snapped—and snarled Frontispiece
"I'll be lucky if I have a white muslin to get married in" 36
They had a Very Beautiful Walk 110
The girls told her they enjoyed the Dance, and Candy, and Everything 198

This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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