Category: Novels
Maud Florence Nellie Whittaker was standing before her little looking-glass, getting ready for her afternoon Sunday school. She was a fine tall girl of fifteen, rather stoutly made, with quantities of light brown hair, which fell on her shoulders and surrounded her plump rosy...
One night, about a fortnight after Florence Whittaker's arrival at Ashcroft, Edgar Cunningham had a dream--a vivid dream--of his brother Alwyn's face. Edgar could scarcely have...
1. CHAPTER ONE.Maud Florence Nellie Whittaker was standing before her little looking-glass, getting ready for her afternoon Sunday school. She was a fine tall girl of fifteen, rather stoutly m...
17. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.The abrupt disappearance of the new nursemaid had naturally caused considerable excitement at Ravenshurst, and Lily's story, when she was asked to repeat what the new girl had s...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.If Wyn Warren had chanced to be in the right part of the wood at the right time on the afternoon after he found the owl's nest, he might have seen all the three objects of his s...
21. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.Wyn gave up his basket of wild flowers to Mr Elton, who had charge of the arrangements for the flower show, and then went on to Ravenshurst with those he had collected for Lily....
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.In the meantime Florence Whittaker and her aunt, having been set down by Wyn, waited in the housekeeper's room at Ravenshurst till Lady Carleton was ready to see them. Mrs Warre...
6. CHAPTER SIX.On the morning after Florence's arrival at Ashcroft little Wyn Warren stood on the terrace of a pretty piece of walled garden on the south side of the great house, with the wrig...
22. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.Wyn saw Mr Edgar many times after the day of the flower show, though he never took him out again with Dobbles. The weather continued fine and bright, and Edgar, in every interva...
2. CHAPTER TWO.Florrie was troubled with no aspirations and with very few ideas. She was just like a young animal, and enjoyed her life much in the same way and with as little regard to conseq...
18. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.On the next Sunday morning the bells of Ashcroft Church were ringing for an early celebration of the Holy Communion. Many eyes were turned on Alwyn Cunningham as he walked down...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.That same evening, while Alwyn Cunningham at his hotel in London was writing the story of his life to his brother, hardly able to fix his thoughts on anything but the interview...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.Entirely unfamiliar surroundings will exercise a subduing effect on the most daring nature; and Florence Whittaker for the first few days of her stay at Ashcroft felt quite meek...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.Some twenty miles away from Rapley, in a less flat and dull and more richly wooded landscape, was the little village of Ashcroft, where Mr Whittaker's cousin, Charles Warren, wa...
16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN.Harry Whittaker, when suddenly claimed by Florrie as her long-lost brother, felt an immediate sense of recognition of the fair, fat, bouncing-ball of a seven years child, whom h...
20. CHAPTER TWENTY.There now set in at Ashcroft a period trying to the feelings of all concerned. No trace of the lost jewels was discovered. The number of hollow trees in the forest was limited,...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.Unfortunately for his scheme of meeting with his brother again, poor Edgar awoke the next morning to one of the blinding and overpowering headaches to which over-fatigue and exc...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.Edgar Cunningham got somewhat the better of his headache as the day went on, and late in the afternoon insisted on getting out into the fresh air on the terrace, in the hope tha...
3. CHAPTER THREE.Mrs Lee was a widow. She kept a small, but very superior, `Fancy Repository' in a good street in Rapley. Her daughter helped her to manage the business, and Florence Whittaker w...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.After church Wyn went to attend to the supper of some of the animals which were in his special charge, and Mrs Warren took Florence up to the great house to see her old mother-i...
10. CHAPTER TEN.On the same afternoon that Wyn and his master went to see the water-lily pond, Florrie Whittaker, seized with a fit of impatience, went off without leave for a ramble in the wood.
19. CHAPTER NINETEEN.Life was certainly a much more peaceable thing in the Whittaker household while Florence was undergoing the process of being "stroked down" by Mrs Warren at Ashcroft, Ethel and...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.Mrs Stroud and Mrs Warren before they parted arranged the details of Florence's proposed visit. She was to come for three months, during which time her father was to pay a small...
23. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE.Before the Confirmation day came the lost jewels were safely restored to Lady Carleton's keeping, and the diamonds that had been hidden for eight years in a hollow tree were lik...