Crossword-Solution: MARTIE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

THE WORKS OF KATHLEEN NORRIS MARTIE THE UNCONQUERED VOLUME VIII AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO JOSEPH SEXTON THOMPSON BOOK I CHAPTER I At about four o'clock on a windy, warm September afternoon, four girls came out of the post-office of Monroe, California.

Sally Monroe, innocent, simple, unexacting at twenty-one, really believed Rose to be the sweetly frank and artless person she seemed, but Martie, two years younger, had her times of absolutely detesting Rose.

Sally was never jealous, but Martie burned with a fierce young jealousy of all life: of Rose, with her dainty frocks and her rich friends, her curly hair and her violin; of Florence Frost's riding horse; of Ida Parker's glib French; of her own brother, Leonard Monroe, with his male independence; of the bare-armed women who leaped on the big, flat-backed horses in the circus; of the very Portuguese children who rode home asleep of a summer afternoon, in fragrant loads of alfalfa.

Martie Monroe had no real desire to work in the box factory, to walk daily the ugly half mile that lay between it and her home, to join the ranks of toilers that filed through the poorer region of town every morning.

But Martie ruined her skin by injudicious eating; she could not resist sweets; natural indolence, combined with the idle life she led, helped to make her too fat.