Category: Short Stories
He was ten, she was nine. But she generally took the lead; not always, as I daresay you will see when you hear more about them, but _generally_. They were a nice little pair, and they were constantly together, at lessons, at play, at everything. This was a convenient arrangeme...
He was ten, she was nine. But she generally took the lead; not always, as I daresay you will see when you hear more about them, but _generally_. They were a nice little pair, an...
2. CHAPTER TWO.The children were not very fortunate in their nurse. Perhaps this helped to make them feel lonely and dull sometimes, when there scarcely seemed real reason for their being so....
3. CHAPTER THREE.They were standing, as I said, not many yards from the end of the wall, and thither the sound seemed to lead them. When they got quite to the corner the tapping had stopped. But...
4. CHAPTER FOUR."Draw the two little stools close beside me--one at the right, one at the left; and if you like, you may lean your heads on my knee, you'll hear none the worse."
5. CHAPTER FIVE.It was indeed a turning of the tables for a dwarf to be afraid of them. It gave the sisters courage to speak to him. "We heard your cries," said Arminel. "Ever so far off in our...
6. CHAPTER SIX."Chloe," said Arminel, as they sat at breakfast, "we were very nearly quarrelling last night; and if we quarrel we shall certainly never find out the secret of the third wish; a...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN."That was a lovely story," she said approvingly. "It will give Rafe and me a lot to talk about. It is so interesting to think what we would wish for if we had the chance."
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.The winter passed and the summer came again--the second summer of the baby's life. She had grown like the flowers, and was as happy as the butterflies. Never was a sweeter or a...
9. CHAPTER NINE.For some days the story of the bewitched Princess gave Rafe and Alix enough to talk about, and to play at too, for they invented a game in which Alix was supposed to fall into a...
10. CHAPTER TEN.The days and weeks and months went on, till it was full summer time again; more than full summer indeed. For it was August, and in a day or two Rafe and Alix were to go to the s...
11. ill. And so, as they had nothing to propose, the most sensible thing to"Whatever it comes from," he said, "I am determined that the Queen's wish shall be complied with if it is in any way possible. What is this thing she is longing for?--what is a...
12. CHAPTER ELEVEN.Ila found it trying and toilsome, for she was not accustomed to swimming upwards so long together, and she did not like to lose time by resting on the way. But when at last she...