Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
"THE postman will not be here yet, Marian, so you and Kate had better come to breakfast," said Mrs. Ingram, addressing her two children, who stood at the window, watching eagerly for the arrival of the red-coated messenger, in the hope that he would bring a letter from "Brothe...
"THE postman will not be here yet, Marian, so you and Kate had better come to breakfast," said Mrs. Ingram, addressing her two children, who stood at the window, watching eagerl...
2. CHAPTER II.THE morning brought disappointment with it: it rained, so there was no chance of going into the fields for that day at least. The children stood at the window watching the falli...
3. CHAPTER III.THE picnic was to be different from most such parties, for Uncle Paul was to furnish "all" the dainties, and the young guests to bring only themselves. Mamma was to be the one g...
4. CHAPTER IV.WHILE these pleasant rambles and excursions were going on, of course there was no time for sewing. Marian's working-materials were all put out of sight, and so were those little...
5. CHAPTER V.UNCLE PAUL was extremely fond of flowers, and had a particularly choice collection of foreign plants, which he had gathered at great cost and pains during his travels. In his gr...
6. CHAPTER VI.HOW fast the hours passed at Hay-Lodge! Nay, the very days themselves seemed but like hours, so absorbed were the children in the new sights and sounds by which they were surrou...