Children's Literature
PAGE I. EDEN PLACE 1 II. MISTRESS MARY’S GARDEN 16 III. A FAMILY POLYGON 29 IV. MARM LISA IS TRANSPLANTED 46 V. HOW THE NEW PLANT GREW 59 VI. FROM GRUBB TO BUTTERFLY 77 VII. THE COMET AND THE FIXED STAR 88 VIII. THE YOUNG MINISTER’S PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 106 IX. MARM LISA...
‘Would it not be strange if by any chance we have brought him to a happier frame of mind? Would it not be a lovely tribute to the secret power of this place, to the healing atmo...
3. Chapter 3It was thus that heaven began to dawn on poor Marm Lisa. At first only a physical heaven: temporary separation from Atlantic and Pacific; a chair to herself in a warm, sunshiny...
9. Chapter 9IT was sure to be a green Christmas in that sunny land, but not the sort of ‘green Yule’ that makes the ‘fat kirkyard.’ If the New Englanders who had been transplanted to that s...
4. Chapter 4This criticism, however, applies only to the family circle, for Mrs. Grubb in a hall was ever winning, delightful, and persuasive. If she was illogical, none of her sister-women...
2. Chapter 2‘It will,’ replied Rhoda, with a stifled sigh. ‘There is an old Eastern legend about the black camel that comes and lies down before the door of him upon whom Heaven is going to...
6. Chapter 6Fortune smiled upon the naughty creatures at the very outset, for Pacific picked up a stick of candy in the street, and gave half of it to a pretty Chinese maiden whose name in...
5. Chapter 5‘More likable? They are less so! Do you see any change in me,—a sort of spiritual effulgence, a saintly radiance, such as comes after a long spell of persistent virtue? Because...
7. Chapter 7When Lisa awoke that night, she heard the crackling of a wood fire on the hearth; she felt the touch of soft linen under her aching body, and the pressure of something cool and...
1. Chapter 1PAGE I. EDEN PLACE 1 II. MISTRESS MARY’S GARDEN 16 III. A FAMILY POLYGON 29 IV. MARM LISA IS TRANSPLANTED 46 V. HOW THE NEW PLANT GREW 59 VI. FROM GRUBB TO BUTTERFLY 77 VII. THE...
10. Chapter 10Her cape had long since dropped from her shoulders, her hat was trampled under foot, the fair coil of hair had loosened and was falling on her neck, and the steel fillet blazed...