A Girl of High Adventure by L. T. Meade
Marguerite St. Juste was Irish on her mother's side, who was born of the Desmonds of Desmondstown in the County Kerry. Marguerite's father was a French Comte, whose grandfather had been one of the victims of the guillotine. Both her parents are dead and she is being brought up by an aunt and uncle. She wants to find out about the rest of her family and her adventures take her to Ireland and France.
Table of Content
Chapter 1 The Child who won Hearts
Chapter 3 An Irish Chieftain at Home
Chapter 5 "I'll explain to yourself"
Chapter 9 The English Girls at the School of La Princesse
Chapter 10 Thou Art Faithful and so re my Bees
Chapter 14 Starlight and Tilly
Chapter 15 I cannot talk Parley-Vous
Chapter 16 The fear of the Shillelagh
Chapter 17 If it must be it must
Chapter 19 Le Cabinet De Beauté
Chapter 21 The Palace of Truth
Chapter 22 It is Joyful to behold thee, my Pushkeen