A Plucky Girl - e. Books. Description. FORTUNE'S BALL I was born a month after my father's death, and my mother called me after him. His name was John Westenra Wickham, but I was Westenra Wickham alone. It was a strange name for a girl, and as I grew up people used to comment on it. Mother loved it very much, and always pronounced it slowly. She was devoted to father, and never spoke of him as most people do of their dead, but as if he were still living, and close to her and to me. When a very little child, my greatest treat was to sit on her knee and listen to wonderful stories of my brave and gallant father. Plucky Girls-Myrtle the Mews Club, Sedona, Arizona. Facebook Email or Phone Password Forgot account? See more of Plucky Girls-Myrtle the Mews Club by logging into. Steven Spielberg Presents The Plucky Duck Show, usually referred to as The Plucky Duck Show, was an animated television series created by Warner Bros. Plucky Girl, Plucky Woman I share these feelings of gratitude for my being Plucky, for having the quality of Pluck, for the gift of my Pluckiness, and for Plucking wisely, at least most of the time. Plucky was not a word I used frequently until a woman named Alice.
He was a handsome man and a good man, and he must have possessed, in a large degree, those qualities which endear people to their fellows, for surely it was no light cause which made my mother's beautiful brown eyes sparkle as they did when she spoke of him, and her whole face awake to the tenderest life and love and beauty when she mentioned his name. I grew up, therefore, with a great passionate affection for my dead father, and a great pride in his memory. He had been a Major- General in a Lancer regiment, and had fought many battles for his country, and led his men through untold dangers, and performed himself more gallant feats than I could count. He received his fatal wound at last in rescuing a brother- officer under fire in Zululand, and one of the last things he was told was that he had received his Victoria Cross. During my father's lifetime mother and he were well off, and for some years after his death there did not appear to be any lack of money. I was well educated, partly in Paris and partly in London, and we had a pretty house in Mayfair, and when I was eighteen I was presented to Her Gracious Majesty by mother's special friend, and my godmother, the Duchess of Wilmot, and afterwards I went a great deal into society, and enjoyed myself as much as most girls who are spirited and happy and have kind friends are likely to do. I was quite one and twenty before the collapse came which changed everything. I don't know how, and I don't know why, but our gold vanished like a dream, and we found ourselves almost penniless. A PLUCKY GIRL SITS ON A THIEF. Sign In to E-Mail Permissions . 207 Bowery, went into the back parlor at about 8 o'clock on last Monday.
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