Edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden.
I read the Project Gutenberg e-book edition.
Eleven stories about the "American Girl", except one of them is British.
Quote:
Sometimes when she leaves her alone for a few moments in her chair, she laughingly bends over and says, "Promise me that you won't run away to heaven while my back is turned." -- from The Little Joys Of Margaret I took this phrase out of context a bit, but it struck a chord with me. I turned away for a while, and she was gone.