Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
My name is Addie Dixon. I have one brother and two sisters. I am going to tell you of something that happened more than five years ago, when Percy was thirteen, I was eleven, Milly was nine, and Maud was only four.
My name is Addie Dixon. I have one brother and two sisters. I am going to tell you of something that happened more than five years ago, when Percy was thirteen, I was eleven, Mi...
2. CHAPTER II.When Miss Cole came up the next day, she told us that the name of the lady at Neesby Court was Townley,--Miss Townley,--and that the little girl was her niece, not her daughter,...
3. CHAPTER III.Eleanor did not come to see us again. I suppose her aunt wouldn't let her even speak to us, as, when we met her in the lanes or in the town, she always passed us with a nod and...
4. CHAPTER IV.July was in. Milly's birthday was on the 17th, which was Friday. We had planned to have games in the garden in the afternoon, tea on the grass under the trees, and games in the...
5. CHAPTER V.Milly's birthday had arrived at last. The weather was beautiful. We were all wildly excited. We girls ran about, helping, we said, but Martha sent us off into the garden out of...
6. CHAPTER VI.That night everybody stayed up but Milly and myself. Father had given Milly a sleeping-powder early in the evening, so she knew nothing of what went on in the house. Miss Cole s...