Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
THE great hotel on the crest of the hill was bathed in sunlight that poured from a rift in the clouds, as if sent for the sole purpose of showing the grand portico, the broad piazza, and the flag that floated gracefully on the summer breeze.
JACK TIVERTON stood in the lower hall one morning, and appeared as if waiting for some one. In his hand was a short switch that he had cut from a shrub that grew beside the driv...
8. Chapter 8THE fair proved a great delight to the children. They had all been to fine fairs patronized by fashionable matrons, whose names were quite enough to insure success, but the coun...
6. Chapter 6As she knelt beneath the window she could hear only the voices of the boys that were nearest to the hut, and hearing only parts of their conversation, she could not understand w...
12. Chapter 12"I didn't want to wear them," said Arabella, "and I told Aunt Matilda it was too pleasant to rain, but she said you never could tell, and she said, too, that I could wear them,...
2. Chapter 2THREE weeks had passed, and as nearly every day had been fair, the guests at the Cleverton had lived out of doors, appearing at the hotel at meal-time, and at night.
5. Chapter 5"Her name is Fenton, Mrs. Fenton, and isn't it odd, _my_ name was Fenton before I married. Floretta's middle name is Fenton. I really feel almost as if I were related to her, be...
4. Chapter 4They were to ride over in the barge to the base of the mountain, have a picnic lunch under the trees, and then climb the rugged path up the mountain side.
1. Chapter 1THE great hotel on the crest of the hill was bathed in sunlight that poured from a rift in the clouds, as if sent for the sole purpose of showing the grand portico, the broad pi...
7. Chapter 7AT a far corner of the piazza sat Dorothy, her eyes terrified, and her cheeks pale. Nancy, close beside her, wound her arms about her, and sought, in every way, to comfort her.
3. Chapter 3"And it was fun at my expense," said Mrs. Paxton. "I was annoyed, just when I was making plans for a _fine_ entertainment, to have you and that boy parade out on to the piazza w...
11. Chapter 11OF course, Dorothy and Nancy were greatly interested in the letter, and Uncle Harry said that he was glad that Reginald had thought to say that the fish-bone had been removed fr...
9. Chapter 9"Now, just a moment!" he cried, as he held up his finger for silence, "I'm taking this _big_ basket home to treat the _big_ ladies with. I took the _little_ ladies with me, but...
10. Chapter 10neether Arabella, or her pa, or her ma dare to do ennything without asking Aunt Matilda _first_. Well, her aunt has had to go way up to New Hampshur (I guess I didn't spell that...