Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
"BROTHER HENRY, I wish you would come out into the garden," said Ethel Dalton to her brother, one morning in the spring, as he sat reading his paper, after breakfast, in the pretty shady breakfast-room of Dr. Ray's house in Ironton.
"BROTHER HENRY, I wish you would come out into the garden," said Ethel Dalton to her brother, one morning in the spring, as he sat reading his paper, after breakfast, in the pre...
2. CHAPTER II.ETHEL retreated to her room, and busied herself in learning her Italian lesson. She was very fond of learning languages; and she had lately been studying Italian with great zest...
3. CHAPTER III.DINNER was late at Dr. Ray's. He was a physician in very large practice, and was hardly ever at home for more than a few minutes from ten in the morning till six at night. He wa...
4. CHAPTER IV.ETHEL would have given a great deal for a good excuse for staying in her own room the next morning; and she lingered so long, that Emily came to see what was the matter.
5. CHAPTER V.NEVER had Ethel been so unhappy in her life, as she was during the next two or three weeks; never had she been so irritable, and so utterly unreasonable and troublesome in her t...
6. CHAPTER VI."I DO think, brother, you are remarkable for one thing," said Ethel, as they were walking homeward, "and that is, the power you have of adapting yourself to all sorts of people."
7. CHAPTER VII.PROMPTLY as Ethel had refused to take charge of the music in her brother's new chapel, she was not at all pleased that her refusal had been so easily accepted. She would have li...
8. CHAPTER VIII.ETHEL gathered up her things and retreated to her own room, without saying another word in self-defence. She shut and bolted her door with some unnecessary emphasis, and sat dow...
9. CHAPTER IX.ETHEL slept rather late, and woke the next morning with a confused feeling that something very unpleasant had happened. At first, she could not remember what it was, but present...
10. CHAPTER X."ARE you sure you feel well enough to go over to your Italian lesson, Ethel?" asked Emily, the next day but one, as Ethel came down with her hat on and her books in her hands.
11. CHAPTER XI.Ethel had "faced the dreadful perilous pass" of the cow-bestudded common, done her errand at Mrs. Smith's, and was now walking with Anna toward the corner where she should meet...
12. CHAPTER XII."To market!" said she. "Oh, I should be ever so much obliged to you, Ethel. Jane is busy, and I have all this work to get ready for Mrs. Markham. But you don't like to do market...
13. CHAPTER XIII.ETHEL was not satisfied with undertaking the marketing. She had always disliked going into the kitchen, so that she had never even acquired the art of clear-starching, preservin...
14. CHAPTER XIV.ETHEL'S hands were now very full of work. Her infant-class had increased beyond the capacity of the room which held it, though she had sent three classes into the large room—a c...
15. CHAPTER XV."WHAT a nice old lady she is!" said Anna, as they were walking homeward. "But does it not seem absurd for these people to be setting themselves up one above another, and thinkin...
16. CHAPTER XVI.She never had any patience with other people's headaches, believing that the word headache was in most cases a convenient synonym for temper or laziness; but of course, her own...
17. CHAPTER XVII."I am not so sure, of course, but I think so," replied the doctor. "It will be a slow business, and I may not succeed at all, but I mean to try. I wonder if she would be willing...
18. CHAPTER XVIII."ETHEL, do you know of a good woman who wants a place as seamstress and so on?" asked Anne Burgers, as they met in the school-room, where Ethel still went for her Italian lessons.
19. CHAPTER XIX.FOR two or three days Ethel bore her confinement to the sofa very well; but as Saturday drew near, she began to fret. What was to become of the sewing-school and the infant-clas...