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The Adventures of an Ugly Girl by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett (1846 - 1930).

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“Come, Dora! I shall never be ready, if you don’t make haste. They will be here in ten minutes, and my hair is not half so nice as it ought to be, thanks to your carelessness.”
“You are very good to ignore my own claims to attention so utterly. I have been helping you this half-hour and have barely time enough left to change my frock. To make my own hair presentable is impossible now.”
“Why, what does it matter how your hair is dressed, or what sort of a gown you put on? You may just as well spare your pains, for unfortunately nothing that you can do seems to mitigate your ugliness. I’m sure I cannot think where you get it. You are—”
But, somehow, I did not feel inclined to wait for the end of Belle’s encouraging lecture. Perhaps it was because I was so often treated to my beautiful elder sister’s homilies that they had lost the spark of novelty and had acquired a chestnuty flavor. Perhaps I failed to recognize any generosity in her persistent efforts to nip such latent buds of vanity as from time to time tried to thrust their poor little heads above the chill crust of ridicule and contumely. Perhaps I was really as bad-tempered as I was said to be. Anyhow, my behavior could not claim to be either quiet or elegant as I stormily quitted Belle’s room, slamming the door behind me with such violence as to elicit from my more well-bred sister a little shriek of affected dismay. So far from feeling sorry that I had given Belle’s nerves a shock, I wished viciously that her fingers had been jammed in the doorway, or that something equally disastrous had occurred to take off the edge of her conceit and self-satisfaction." To be the homely sister is a torture to Dorrie, but she must make the best of it as she watches the beautiful Belle receive all the attention and adulation... but what choices will Belle make and what effect will they have on her life? And will Dorrie achieve the happiness even an ugly girl deserves? ( Lynne Thompson)
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Post by Kozmique »

Oh no! I hope everyone's ok! Whenever you are ready to return to the project, I'd like to take chapter 1, please. Hope all goes well.
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Kozmique wrote: November 2nd, 2018, 11:59 am Oh no! I hope everyone's ok! Whenever you are ready to return to the project, I'd like to take chapter 1, please. Hope all goes well.
Thank you. Doing better. You have chapter 1. (I am limited as to what I can do on my iPad, but I can assign sections 8-) )
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Post by Rainee »

I would like to take Chapter 2
Please inform! thanks. :D
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Post by Lynnet »

Rainee wrote: November 16th, 2018, 11:43 pm I would like to take Chapter 2
Please inform! thanks. :D
All yours!
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I would love to read section three, chapter three! This is my first time reading something, I would like my name to appear as Sydney Keith in the catalog.
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SmileyWriter wrote: November 25th, 2018, 12:46 am I would love to read section three, chapter three! This is my first time reading something, I would like my name to appear as Sydney Keith in the catalog.

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Post by ayushpandey8439 »

I would like to claim section 4 please.
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ayushpandey8439 wrote: November 27th, 2018, 10:48 am I would like to claim section 4 please.
Thank you for claiming. I will add you to the catalog. Please be sure to read the first post, but ask if you have questions.
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Can I claim chapter 5? Under the name Aria, please?
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Post by Lynnet »

Aria wrote: December 13th, 2018, 10:16 am Can I claim chapter 5? Under the name Aria, please?
Thank you for claiming
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Post by Kozmique »

I finished Chapter 1! :D :D :D It was a real challenge, with such long passages that I kept running out of air! :lol: I ran it through the checker & got a pass. Hope you like it! The time is 39:44

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/adventuresofanuglygirl_01_corbett_128kb.mp3
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Post by Lynnet »

Kozmique wrote: December 17th, 2018, 11:55 am I finished Chapter 1! :D :D :D It was a real challenge, with such long passages that I kept running out of air! :lol: I ran it through the checker & got a pass. Hope you like it! The time is 39:44

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/adventuresofanuglygirl_01_corbett_128kb.mp3
Thank you. Yes, sometimes those old authors had different ideas of punctuation :lol: All we can do is our best.
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Post by linny »

Kozmique wrote: December 17th, 2018, 11:55 am I finished Chapter 1! :D :D :D It was a real challenge, with such long passages that I kept running out of air! :lol: I ran it through the checker & got a pass. Hope you like it! The time is 39:44

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/adventuresofanuglygirl_01_corbett_128kb.mp3
Chapter 1 is PL OK. Beautiful work. :thumbs:

(Lynne, please check the link in the MW. I couldn't download the file but grabbed it from the thread.)
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Post by Kozmique »

Yay! And thanks! I'd like to take chapter 6 next, please. :)
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