Category: Short Stories
Auntie hesitated--she glanced up at as much of the sky as could be seen through the lace-shrouded windows of their pretty Paris _salon_--it was already beginning to grow dusky, for though only half-past three, it was the thirty-first of December, and a dull day--and then turne...
Auntie hesitated--she glanced up at as much of the sky as could be seen through the lace-shrouded windows of their pretty Paris _salon_--it was already beginning to grow dusky,...
2. Chapter 2UP ever so many pairs of steep winding stairs, somewhat later that same evening, in a small barely furnished little room in one of the busiest and most thickly inhabited parts o...
3. Chapter 3IT is getting to be "a good while ago" since I was a little girl. Sometimes this comes home to me quite distinctly: I feel that I am really growing an old woman, but at other ti...
4. Chapter 4MY aunt was as good as her word. The next morning, when breakfast was over, she went up with me to my little room and unlocked the cabinet. It was, as she had said, filled with...
5. Chapter 5AFTER this I grew fonder than ever of my pink pet. But at the same time I was more careful than before to let no one know of my queer fancy. Emilia's remarks had alarmed me, for...
6. Chapter 6THAT same afternoon an elderly woman was sitting alone by the window of a shabby little parlour over a grocer's shop in the High Street of Tarnworth. She had a gentle, careworn...
7. Chapter 7IN the first pleasant excitement of her return home and finding the children well, and to all appearance happy, Lady Iltyd did not think of what had, nevertheless, been often in...
8. Chapter 8DEAR me, such a lot of children! At first you could hardly have believed that they were all brothers and sisters--such a number there seemed, and several so nearly of a size. Th...
9. Chapter 9TO-MORROW--the first part of it at least--found the excitement scarcely less great than on the day of Miss Campbell's arrival. For there were the presents to distribute! A delig...
10. Chapter 10EVER since Persis and I were quite little there was one thing we longed for more than anything else. I think most children have some great wish, or fancy, perhaps grown-up peopl...
11. Chapter 11WE were to go to Wildmoor the very next week, but still it seemed a long time off. If it hadn't been for the packing, I don't know how we'd have got over the time, for Miss Elli...
12. Chapter 12WE got up very early indeed the next morning, and of course we both rushed straight to the yard. We had had a dreadful feeling that perhaps somebody would have come to claim the...
13. Chapter 13PAPA was the first to speak. The young lady went on hugging at Bruno, and taking no notice of any of us. Papa looked very grave. I think he thought it rather rude of her, even i...