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True Tilda

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True Tilda (1909)
by A. T. Quiller-Couch
Edition: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.

"Q." at his best is always good reading, and in "True Tilda" he is at his very best. Tilda is a child acrobat, a nobody's child, who has developed in the hard discipline of the show world an amazing independence and resourcefulness. The book deals with her rescue of a baronet's son from the Holy Innocents' orphanage at Bursley, an appalling institution which it is to be hoped has no original in real life, and her journey across England to the boy's home on the Bristol Channel. —extract from The Bookman (UK) October 1909. Full review on the Discussion page.]

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TRUE TILDA


BY
A. T. QUILLER-COUCH
("Q")


CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK : : : : : : : : : : 1909


Copyright, 1909, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published August, 1909

CONTENTS

  1. chapterpage
  2. I. At the Sign of the Good Samaritan 1
  3. II. How True Tilda Came to Dolorous Gard 12
  4. III. A Kidnapping 27
  5. IV. In which Childe Arthur Loses One Mother and Gains Another 45
  6. V. Temporary Embarrassments of a Thespian 55
  7. VI. Mr. Mortimer's Adventure 68
  8. VII. In which Mr. Hucks Takes a Hand 77
  9. VIII. Flight 90
  10. IX. Freedom 103
  11. X. The Four Diamonds 120
  12. XI. The "Stratford-on-Avon" 131
  13. XII. Pursued 146
  14. XIII. Adventure of the Furred Collar 161
  15. XIV. Adventure of the Primrose Fête 174
  16. XV. Adventure of the Fat Lady 190
  17. XVI. Adventures of the "Four Alls" and of the Celestial Chemist 207
  18. XVII. By Weston Weir 223
  19. XVIII. Down Avon 236
  20. XIX. The S.S. Evan Evans 253
  21. XX. Inistow Farm 277
  22. XXI. The Hunted Stag 297
  23. XXII. The Voyage 312
  24. XXIII. The Island 334
  25. XXIV. Glasson in Chase 346
  26. XXV. Miss Sally Breaks the Doors 365
  27. XXVI. The Rescue 382
  28. Epilogue 394
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