Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays

"I just can't believe it's true! I've pinched myself a dozen times. I've pulled my own hair. I've looked at myself in the mirror again and again and told myself that it is a fac...

There was a murmur of surprise in the room as Dr. Prescott made her announcement. She raised her hand to quiet it and waited a moment before she went on.

Bess got up from the gayly covered studio couch where she had been reading and opened wide the door. "It's all right. Come on in," she invited. "Nan's gone away for the afternoo...

"I just can't believe things won't turn out all right!" Bess exclaimed, as she and her other Lakeview Hall friends sat together in Nan's room in the great castle. "And I hate ha...

"But this isn't where our cabin is!" Nan exclaimed the next morning as Bess and Rhoda, one on each side of her, walked her slowly from the hospital back to the stateroom.

"Do you think she suspects?" Amelia asked Laura as the two walked down the corridor of the dormitory after working their way out of the confusion that followed Nan's breaking in...

She clasped the knob firmly in her hand and opened the door suddenly. Though she saw nothing, she felt something soft and furry brushing against her legs. She turned white and s...

They were all wary as they picked their way over the dry rutted road, but Nan more so than any of them. Even as James Blake felt responsible for her, so she felt responsible for...

"You seem to have a habit of meeting us at stations," she remarked. They all laughed, remembering Nan and Bess' first entrance into Freeling, their first ride with Walter and Li...

"Why, Nancy Sherwood, how you talk!" Bess just wouldn't believe that anyone could be so foolish as to mean what her closest friend had just said. "You don't want to be in Westmi...

"Are your passports all stamped for landing? Is your baggage tagged for Glasgow? Are you sure you have everything?" Dr. Beulah smiled down at the excited brood of young girls un...

"Hello, down there!" Nan stretched her head over the edge of her berth and looked down to the bunk below where Bess was still sleeping. "Hello, I say," she repeated a little lou...

Dr. Beulah's question went unanswered. The clank of the chain as deckhands dropped the gang-plank from ship to shore attracted the attention of the girls even as she asked it. N...

"I never thought of that!" This from Rhoda. "But it all fits together perfectly. They say he never appears at the table for his meals and that he has his own servants to take ca...

She was sitting on the floor sorting a boxful of things she had been saving for her memory book and was holding the dance program of the Grand Guard Ball they had attended durin...

"I hope she dies of pneumonia!" Bess was frankly crying as she walked down the corridor toward the ship's hospital. "I'd like nothing better than to witness a funeral at sea, if...

At long last came four o'clock. Dr. Prescott walked down the big, winding stairway of the castle-like structure that she had transformed from a run-down neglected dwelling into...

Nan looked up from her place on the floor into the anxious faces of the girls around her. "I'm as baffled as you are," she admitted. "I can't really tell whether anyone has touc...

"Welcome, thrice welcome to Emberon," he greeted. "And you, my dear," he continued as they walked in through big doors to a high old hall, "you, I'm sure, are Nancy Sherwood." H...

"Oh, stay just a minute longer," Nan pleaded. "I like to see it roll. Look, see how the fish are jumping the waves! They are coming in higher and higher all the time. I wonder h...

What a ride! Earlier in the evening, Grace had called it spooky. Now she said nothing, but just sat thinking, watching the tall old trees through the carriage window as the equi...

With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door. They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their...

Nan stirred sleepily and turned over. The cock crowed triumphantly again. Nan turned once more and saw that the morning sun was filtering in through the heavy drapes at the wind...

Nan turned. She had been watching the white sea gulls swooping in great arcs down over the boat, missing it, and turning to swoop again. It looked like such fun!

"Oh, Nan, I wonder if all the girls received them! I hope they did!" Bess was waving a small white envelope in her hand. "Look, it has the boat's flag engraved on it and the Uni...

"Now tell us what happened!" The Lakeview girls were reclining in deck chairs on the sun deck in the late afternoon. Dr. Prescott was in her stateroom, making it more presentabl...

"Ticket--passport--traveller's checks--baggage tags--trunk keys." Nan checked them off on her list as she put them into her purse. "There, Bess," she said, turning to her friend...

"Bess, if we go on collecting things at this rate," Nan protested to her friend, "we'll have to buy new luggage. Nothing short of a huge trunk will hold everything."

There, around a game field lighted by myriads of small electric bulbs, the whole population of the town was collected. Everyone was in holiday mood. All eyes were riveted on a b...

The streets all along the route of the procession were crowded with great masses of people, held back from the road by London bobbies. They hung out of windows, sat in trees, co...