Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
It was the day before the midsummer holidays, and the girls of the first form were sitting together in the upstairs school-room at Milvern House, discussing the events of the term, and the prospective pleasures of the next few weeks. Lessons had been finished in the morning, t...
When the girls reached home they found Lady Sarah awaiting them in the drawing-room. Her hands were lying idly on her lap, a white shawl was wrapped round her shoulders, and the...
16. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.The Dean and Mrs Faucit duly presented Mildred with a gold watch to match those already possessed by their own daughters. It had a monogram on the back, an inscription inside th...
12. CHAPTER ELEVEN.The next morning Mildred awoke to find the sun pouring into her room through the uncurtained windows. A moment of sleepy confusion, and then remembrance awoke. It was the day of...
10. CHAPTER NINE.No further reference was made to the unpleasant scene in the library. Lady Sarah seemed disposed neither to offer nor to demand any sort of apology. Unnoticed by the girl, howev...
9. CHAPTER EIGHT.When Mildred had been staying for a fortnight at the Deanery, a letter arrived one morning which filled Bertha and Lois with delight, inasmuch as it contained an invitation to w...
6. CHAPTER FIVE.The next day brought reassuring news of Robbie, who had had a good night, and was distinctly better. Mildred was devoutly thankful; but now that the strain of anxiety was reliev...
7. CHAPTER SIX.Friday arrived in a bustle of work and excitement. For the last two days Miss Margaret's little sewing-woman had taken possession of the work-room, and Mildred's well-worn dress...
11. CHAPTER TEN.The day before the eventful picnic the family were seated round the breakfast-table, when the Dean looked up from a letter which he had just been reading, and said mildly, and a...
1. CHAPTER ONE.It was the day before the midsummer holidays, and the girls of the first form were sitting together in the upstairs school-room at Milvern House, discussing the events of the te...
2. CHAPTER TWO.Miss Margaret's room was on the third floor, and did service both as a bedroom and as a sanctum to which its owner could retire in rare moments of leisure. The bed stood in a co...
15. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.There was a constant coming and going at The Deanery during the whole of that day, and the very atmosphere seemed full of excitement. Mrs Faucit, however, kept Mildred a prisone...
14. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.There was no sleep for the inhabitants of The Deanery during the remainder of that exciting night. The sudden banging of the strong-room door, with the babel which immediately f...
3. CHAPTER THREE.There was consternation downstairs when the news of Mildred's disappointment was made public. The girls clustered together in groups, and talked with bated breath. The number of...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.The next morning Mildred awoke with a wail of despairing remembrance. She hid her face in the pillow and wondered how she was to live through the day, to see the different batch...
8. CHAPTER SEVEN.Mildred had been a week at The Deanery, and if her enjoyment during that time had not been entirely unalloyed, the fault lay without question with Lady Sarah, for all the member...
5. ill. Oh, Mardie, isn't it a lovely feeling when the pain goes, and youcan just rest and be thankful! ... It's worse to have a pain in your mind than in your body. I feel ashamed now that I made such a fuss about staying at school--it seems such a...