Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
She did wish that her mother would let her be, and not always be finding out things she had not done. Her Aunt Elizabeth did not find so much amiss with Laura or Clara; nor, for the matter of that, did her own mother seem to rebuke her brother Jim half as much as she did her.
She did wish that her mother would let her be, and not always be finding out things she had not done. Her Aunt Elizabeth did not find so much amiss with Laura or Clara; nor, for...
2. CHAPTER II.POLLIE was fifteen, and life had flowed along peacefully as to outward circumstances. But beneath the surface, there were currents and rocks and hidden difficulties which no one...
3. CHAPTER III."THAT is better, my dear," remarked her aunt, when she re-appeared with her best hat on. "You must not mind, Mary, if I get you a few things: I told your mother I should do so....
4. CHAPTER IV.When she asked at dinner if she could go to the meeting that evening at the Town Hall, her aunt and cousins made so many objections that Pollie did not know how to press the mat...
5. CHAPTER V.They, however, had so many secrets about the whole matter that Pollie often wished herself at home, in spite of the natural anticipation which such a day's pleasure was likely t...
6. CHAPTER VI.She longed to wish her father's dear old friend good-bye, but did not like to propose it. Her uncle however settled the matter by offering to drive her out there the last evening.
7. CHAPTER VII."YOU'LL have to go down to the stream, and bring up the biggest goose, Poll," said her mother, wringing up a towel very hard, and throwing it in the basket. "I can't think why y...
8. CHAPTER VIII.She put on her hat and hurried out of the house, dashing down the hill at hot speed, nor even stopped until she stood breathless outside her dear Miss Loveday's gate, where, ben...
9. CHAPTER IX.THE morning sun streamed into Pollie's room, and her eyes opened to it with a sense of relief. But soon came back the dull ache of yesterday's wrong feelings, and she wondered i...
10. CHAPTER X."Father—" Pollie paused. "I don't want to tell anything I ought not, but I have somebody's secret that makes me very sad, and I wanted to know if you knew somebody there very pa...
11. CHAPTER XI.Too late! It was too late now! That letter, so hard to write, had gone on its way, and ere this Harry would have started for China, with his hopes crushed and his heart sore.
12. CHAPTER XII.Mary had been very brave, but at the kind tone she broke down. She had no mother into whose arms she might throw herself, and sob out her grief. Perhaps her aunt felt that, for...
13. CHAPTER XIII."MOTHER!" exclaimed Pollie, running over the green in front of the mill and throwing herself into her mother's arms, "I haven't gone! But it's all right. There is no need to go...
14. CHAPTER XIV."HARRY! I shall never be able to spare you both," said his mother, looking at him earnestly, when, after supper, the vicar and his wife had left the three together to have a qui...
15. CHAPTER XV.THE parting was over. Mary, very pale but more thoughtful of the frail mother than of herself, kept up bravely, and no one would have guessed the desolate feeling which came ove...
16. CHAPTER XVI.THAT evening after tea, Mary and Pollie set out for the cliff, Mary to carry a bunch of flowers to the invalid and Pollie to ask her cousin Clara if she would go for a walk.