Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
"Because, dear, we can't afford it. I'm very, very sorry, but you must try to enjoy your holidays at home; and, please, Tom, don't let your father guess that you greatly mind—of course, it's only natural that you should be disappointed."
"Because, dear, we can't afford it. I'm very, very sorry, but you must try to enjoy your holidays at home; and, please, Tom, don't let your father guess that you greatly mind—of...
3. CHAPTER IITHE first week of the summer holidays had passed when, one morning, as Nellie and Tom Burford were standing looking into the window of their favourite sweetshop in the town, a h...
4. CHAPTER IIITHE following morning, at the breakfast-table, Mr. Burford remarked to his little daughter: "Dr. Brewer's coming to see you some time to-day, my dear, so you must stay indoors u...
5. CHAPTER IV"WELL, as Peter Perry has said he didn't mean to insult you, I wouldn't think any more about it if I were you," said Nellie, after her brother had told her of his meeting in the...
6. CHAPTER VPETER PERRY was blind! Tom, startled and immeasurably shocked, could scarcely credit it till his mother had added her testimony to Nellie's, and explained that the afflicted boy...
7. CHAPTER VIMr. and Mrs. Burford and their little daughter were at the breakfast-table when Tom burst in on them with his news. Nellie cried: "Oh, how glad I am!" and was beginning to ask q...
8. CHAPTER VIION reaching Halcyon Villa, Tom found Miss Perry and her nephew in the garden, the former cutting flowers for the house, and received a hearty greeting from both of them. He told...
9. CHAPTER VIIITHE boys did not come across either little Grace Lee or the Sordellos when they visited the Market Square in the afternoon; they did not stay there long, for Tom soon realised t...
10. CHAPTER IXThe speaker was Moses Lee, who had left his horse's head and run forward to the assistance of the boys when he had realised the peril of their position. It had taken the cow bar...
11. CHAPTER XIT was on a Thursday that Mrs. Burford and Nellie went to Broadstairs, and the evening of the following day saw the former at home again. Nellie had been in very low spirits whe...
12. CHAPTER XITHE Saturday before the show at Chilaton, which had dawned so promisingly, became overcast as the day wore on. In the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Burford went by train to a neighbour...
13. CHAPTER XII"OH, Tom, how wonderful—wonderful that you should have found her, and that Moses Lee should have come along just at the very minute he was wanted; and, oh, do go on and tell me...