Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
HILDEGARDE was walking home from the village, whither she had gone to get the mail. She usually rode the three miles on her bicycle, but she had met a tack on the road the day before, and must now wait a day or two till the injured tire could be mended.
HILDEGARDE was walking home from the village, whither she had gone to get the mail. She usually rode the three miles on her bicycle, but she had met a tack on the road the day b...
2. CHAPTER II.CHRISTMAS was coming. Christmas was only three weeks off. Oh, how the time was flying! "How shall I ever get ready?" cried Hildegarde, quickening her pace as she spoke, as if th...
3. CHAPTER III."AND you really think I would better stay several days, Mammina? I don't like to leave you alone. Some one might come and carry you off! How should I feel if I came back next we...
4. CHAPTER IV.THERE was no family breakfast at the house in Gramercy Park. A smiling chambermaid brought up a tray to Hildegarde's room, with all manner of pleasant things under suggestive li...
5. CHAPTER V.They were sitting at the luncheon-table. Hildegarde could just see the tip of her aunt's cap above the old-fashioned epergne which occupied the centre of the table; but her tone...
6. CHAPTER VI."AND you won't think better of it? Hilda, I am in despair! Think of it, my dear! Calvé, and both the De Reszkes--there will never be such a performance again, perhaps, in our li...
7. CHAPTER VII.BUT the best of all, perhaps, was telling about it afterward. Sitting by the fire that evening, in the pleasant sitting-room, Hildegarde told her mother all about the Great Fris...
8. CHAPTER VIII.THE next day seemed to be largely spent in running to and fro between the two houses. Kitty and Willy were at Braeside before breakfast, eager to embrace their dear Mrs. Grahame...
9. CHAPTER IX."We shall have them soon," said her mother. "Meanwhile let us be merry, and honour their name. It is too soon after tea for charades, I suppose. Why not try the Alphabet Stories?"
10. CHAPTER X.BELL MERRYWEATHER was sitting alone in the parlour at Braeside. She was waiting for Hildegarde to finish some piece of work up-stairs before going for a twilight walk. So waitin...
11. CHAPTER XI."Yes, dear, he was. He was--I am afraid--very fond of me, Hilda. It was years and years ago, of course; he was only a lad. But,--well, it happened that we had never met since, y...
12. CHAPTER XII.SO it came to pass that, as Jack Ferrers was strolling about the garden with Hugh after dinner, talking about old times, and pausing at every other step to greet some favourite...
13. CHAPTER XIII.HILDEGARDE awoke in the dark, with the sound of bells in the air. Her first thought was that of all women in similar case--fire! She sat up in bed and listened; but these were n...
14. CHAPTER XIV."All ready!" responded the boys, namely, Raymond Ferrers, aged sixty, Jack Ferrers, aged twenty, and Hugh Allen, aged nine. Barring more or less difference in height, and a trif...
15. CHAPTER XV.HILDEGARDE was sitting by Hugh's bedside. He had been laid in her bed that night; how long ago was it? She hardly knew,--and was still too ill to be moved. A concussion of the b...