Maisie's merry Christmas

Maisie made this startling assertion in a tone of conviction, but there was a quiver in her voice, nevertheless, and a suspicious moisture in her eyes. The remark caused quite a...

Maisie heaved an impatient sigh, and shifted her position from one foot to the other. She was standing in the doorway of her aunt's room, ready dressed for a morning walk, and A...

It was Christmas Eve. All day the rain had fallen in a steady down-pour, but at about four o'clock the wind had suddenly changed, the sky cleared, and Nice had been treated to o...

"My dear Maisie, you know I am quite willing to consent to anything in reason. Indeed, I thoroughly approve of the Christmas Tree, and giving the little blind girl a good time,...

There were not many people in the great gallery that rainy December afternoon. It was too early in the season for the crowd of English and American tourists which in the late wi...

Jill spoke in a tone of satisfaction, and as she did so she glanced about the cosy little room, with an air of pardonable pride. It was a rather shabbily furnished little room,...

It was Christmas afternoon, and the twins were alone in the tiny apartment. It had been a very strange, dull Christmas, although every one had been kind, and the Palonis had don...

Signora Paloni was teaching the twins to prepare _gniocchi_, which is a favorite Italian dish, and tastes something like baked Indian meal with cheese in it; and it would be dif...

"I can't get to sleep," she said, mournfully, "I'm trying hard, because I promised Mr. Brown, but it isn't any use. Do you suppose they've heard anything since we went to bed?"

The Cunard steamer, _Caronia_, had left Naples, and was making her way through a high sea, across the Mediterranean to Alexandria. It was very rough, and before they had left Na...

The wind and sea both went down that night, and by noon of the next day the Mediterranean was as calm as a river. Everybody came on deck, and the people who had been most seasic...

It was so hot in the hotel garden that Nurse and Ellen, not always the best of friends, had agreed for once, and declared another game of "Horse" to be quite out of the question.

How long and how far they ran the children never knew. They ran through the soft sand as if their feet were winged, with but one thought in both their minds, to get as far away...

It was three days later, and Reggie was sitting up in bed doing a picture puzzle. The attack of croup had been a sharp one, but the worst was now over, although it had been decr...