# Nelly's dark days Author: Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911 Genre: Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77483 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Nelly%27s+dark+days+Stretton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary IT was nearly twelve o'clock at night on the first Sunday of the New Year. The churches and chapels had all been closed for some hours; and none of the better class of shops had been opened during the day. Business had been set on one side, even by those workmen and labourers who lived from hand to mouth, and scarcely knew beforehand where the day's meals were to come from. There had been, as usual, a prevailing feeling that the day was not a day for work or traffic of any kind; and what had been done had been, more or less, away from the public scrutiny. But though midnight was close at hand, the streets in the lower parts of Liverpool were neither quiet nor dark. Up higher, farther away... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nelly-s-dark-days-77483/chapters/7/index.md)