Five Little Peppers Midway
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"She doesn't stay in this house, does she, Jasper?" cried Polly in a tone of horror.
"No; that is, unless she chooses to, then we can't turn her off. She's a relative, you know."
"Hasn't she any home?" asked Polly, "or any children?"
"Home? Yes, an estate down in Bedford County?-Dunraven Lodge; but it's all shut up, and in the hands of agents who have been trying for the half-dozen years she was abroad, to sell it for her. She may have come back to settle down there again, there's no telling what she will do. In the meantime, I fancy she'll make her headquarters here," he said gloomily.
"Oh, Jasper!" exclaimed Polly, seizing his arm, feeling that here was need of comfort indeed, "how very dreadful! Don't you suppose something will happen to take her away?"
"I don't see what can," sa
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Despite the dates attached to the books, the stories seem to go in this order:
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, 1881
The Adventures of Joel Pepper, 1900
The Five Little Peppers at School, 1903
The Five Little Peppers and their Friends, 1904
The Five Little Peppers Midway, 1890
The Five Little Peppers Abroad, 1902
The Five Little Peppers Grown Up, 1892
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