Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Little Prudy's Cousin Grace

Grace Clifford and Katharine Hallock were such dear friends, and spent so much time together, that you could not think of one without thinking of the other, and people linked their names together, and spoke of "Grace and Cassy," just as one speaks of a "cup and saucer" or a "h...

Chapters

3. CHAPTER III.

The princesses quite enjoyed their stolen meetings and their mysterious signs. O, how little the world suspected that they were keeping weighty secrets! So surprised as the worl...

6. CHAPTER VI.

But to the immense relief of the girls, the gypsy at last consented, most kindly, to accept the money, and after the cards had been "cut," proceeded to assort them, and read fro...

7. CHAPTER VII.

At the tea-table, Horace's curiosity was very active. He wanted to know where the girls spread out their picnic, what games they played, and would have gone on with his trying q...

9. CHAPTER IX.

Barbara had now been at home for some time making preparations for her wedding, and had cordially invited all the children to see her married,--Grace, Cassy, Prudy and Horace; e...

4. CHAPTER IV.

Next morning, when Barbara was building the kitchen fire, she heard the sound of small boots, and, looking up, saw Horace, who had run down stairs in such haste that as yet he h...

5. CHAPTER V.

All the school-girls were talking just now about a wonderful woman, who had suddenly dropped down, perhaps out of the moon--a woman who could tell what had happened, and what wo...

11. CHAPTER XI.

It was now vacation. Mahla was too ill to go out; and, as for the other girls, they said they had the "sleeps;" and, instead of working for the soldiers, they preferred to lie u...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

Lucy was as harmless a fly as ever got caught in a spider's web. Isa thought she could manage her finely. So the moment she had done talking with Grace, she made Lucy tease Miss...

2. CHAPTER II

The graduating class of the Girls' Grammar School comprised seven young misses, of whom Grace Clifford was the youngest, though by no means the most timid and retiring. They all...

10. CHAPTER X.

Mahla Linck seemed to grow paler and thinner. Her mother, when kindly advised to keep her at home, replied, "My Mahla loves her book; she must in the school go." The poor woman...

1. CHAPTER I.

Grace Clifford and Katharine Hallock were such dear friends, and spent so much time together, that you could not think of one without thinking of the other, and people linked th...