Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
The school-room at Number 19, Norfolk Terrace, was not, it must be confessed, a particularly attractive room. To begin with, it looked out upon the little garden at the back of the house, and this same little garden was not much to look out upon. The modest, old-fashioned name...
The school-room at Number 19, Norfolk Terrace, was not, it must be confessed, a particularly attractive room. To begin with, it looked out upon the little garden at the back of...
2. CHAPTER TWO.She had fought to some purpose by the time they reached Gretham, the village on the other side of which lay Lady Mildred Osbert's house. For when they entered the Silverthorns a...
3. CHAPTER THREE.A hearty but somewhat unnecessarily noisy welcome awaited them. Arthur, Ted, and Noble were all in the drawing-room with their mother. She had insisted on the muddy boots being...
4. CHAPTER FOUR."Mamma," said Charlotte to her mother one day towards the end of the following week, "do you think--I mean would you mind?" She hesitated and grew rather red, and looked down at...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.But her voice was dull and dreary like the day, and though, as she had just said of the weather, "not actually raining," the mother's ears perceived that tears were not very far...
6. CHAPTER SIX.The Rectory at Britton-Garnett was one of those picturesque, tempting-looking, old cottage-like houses which, seen in summer by a passer-by, embowered in greenery and roses, rem...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.Claudia's success in the German class was, as Charlotte had expected, but the first of her triumphs. She had natural abilities of the first order; she had been excellently and m...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT."Jerry," said Charlotte suddenly, a few days after Claudia's unlucky attempt, "it's no use. I've tried and I've tried to like that girl, at least to have no unkind feelings to h...
9. ill. I was there because my guardian who took charge of me was a verydear and old friend of his, and I was a quiet sort of child that did not give much trouble. I was left to run about the place as I liked, while the two old people were together....
10. CHAPTER NINE.If we knew more than is possible for us of what is passing at a distance, we should find so-called "coincidences" much more frequent then we have at present any idea of. That ve...
11. CHAPTER TEN.It was now very near Christmas, which promised this year to be what people are fond of calling "an old-fashioned" one. Snow had already fallen, though not to any great extent, t...
12. CHAPTER ELEVEN.Claudia and her aunt were sitting quietly that same evening in the small drawing-room which Lady Mildred always used in the winter, and Claudia was thinking over her strange mee...
13. CHAPTER TWELVE.It seemed late to Claudia when she went up to bed that night, though in reality it was not much past ten o'clock. But so much had happened since dark, and it had grown dark so e...
14. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.There were difficulties to contend with. Lady Mildred, whose hospitable instincts were aroused, and who felt really anxious about the delicate little boy, would not hear of his...
15. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.Jerry was sitting up in bed; he was so far better that no serious illness was now to be feared, but he was weak and depressed, feeling vaguely "sorry for himself," not quite sur...
16. CHAPTER FIFTEEN."No," said the doctor; "he's not gaining ground as he should. Still there's nothing really wrong. But I hardly know what to advise. What he really should have, as I've told you...
17. CHAPTER SIXTEEN."I can't understand how I took it so quietly," Charlotte thought to herself as she was dressing. "I suppose I was half stunned. I feel this morning as if I could just _scream_ w...