Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
A young girl dressed in a cloak and hat, and looking sad and somewhat timid, stood in the middle of the large hall of a fine old country house. The floor was of oak, and the walls were covered with dark oak wainscoting, from which hung down several full-length portraits of gri...
A young girl dressed in a cloak and hat, and looking sad and somewhat timid, stood in the middle of the large hall of a fine old country house. The floor was of oak, and the wal...
2. CHAPTER TWO.Lilly Vernon had been for some weeks at Clavering Hall. She had been kindly received by her uncle and aunt, had completely got over the timidity she felt on her arrival, and had...
3. CHAPTER THREE.Two days passed by, and it seemed very uncertain whether Ralph Clavering would recover. Lilly, by the doctor's orders, had to return home, but she begged that Biddy might remain...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.There is an old saying that, "What is born in the grain is shown in the fruit." No sooner had Ralph Clavering recovered his physical strength than he was himself again in all ot...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.The days flew by; the spring returned; Ralph completely recovered his strength, and renewed his daily visits to his tutor; while Lilly, unaided, pursued her own studies with unw...
6. CHAPTER SIX.When Mr and Mrs Clavering heard Lilly's version of the boating expedition, they were anxious to repay Arnold for the service he had rendered; but when they sent over a servant o...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.The assertion made by the stranger, which had so unexpectedly raised the siege of the Hall, created the most painful doubts in the minds of Mr and Mrs Clavering. At the time of...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.Ralph Clavering was becoming a changed character. His spirit had been humbled, if not broken. He had persuaded himself that any moment he might have to descend from his proud po...