Sylvie and Bruno (Illustrated)

For a full month the business, for which I had returned to London, detained me there: and even then it was only the urgent advice of my physician that induced me to leave it unf...

"It's just a week," I said, three days later, to Arthur, "since we heard of Lady Muriel's engagement. I think _I_ ought to call, at any rate, and offer my congratulations. Won't...

And so it came to pass that, just a week after the day when my Fairy-friends first appeared as Children, I found myself taking a farewell-stroll through the wood, in the hope of...

"And all that strange adventure," I thought, "has occupied the space of a single comma in Lady Muriel's speech! A single comma, for which grammarians tell us to 'count _one_'!"...

"I can walk as well as _you_ can," I repeated. And I tried my best to walk a few steps: but the ground slipped away backwards, quite as fast as I could walk, so that I made no p...

Still more dreamily I found myself following this imperious voice into a room where the Earl, his daughter, and Arthur, were seated. "So you're come _at last_!" said Lady Muriel...

As I entered the little town, I came upon two of the fishermen's wives interchanging that last word "which never was the last": and it occurred to me, as an experiment with the...

That I had said _something_, in the act of waking, I felt sure: the hoarse stifled cry was still ringing in my ears, even if the startled look of my fellow-traveler had not been...

While she and Arthur (who had arrived before me) supplied the children with tea and cake, I tried to engage the Earl in conversation: but he was restless and _distrait_, and we...

The week passed without any further communication with the 'Hall,' as Arthur was evidently fearful that we might 'wear out our welcome'; but when, on Sunday morning, we were set...

Lady Muriel was the speaker. And, for the moment, that was the only fact I could clearly realise. But how she came to be there--and how _I_ came to be there--and how the glass o...

"It looks a very comfable house," Bruno said, as we turned into the road leading up to it. "I doos hope the Dogs will be kind to us, I _is_ so tired and hungry!"

After that we had a few minutes of silence, while I sorted out the pebbles, and amused myself with watching Bruno's plan of gardening. It was quite a new plan to me: he always m...

Yes, we were in the garden once more: and, to escape that horrid discordant voice, we hurried indoors, and found ourselves in the library--Uggug blubbering, the Professor standi...

--and then all the people cheered again, and one man, who was more excited than the rest, flung his hat high into the air, and shouted (as well as I could make out) "Who roar fo...

The Professor gently clapped his hands. "Isn't he _wonderful_!" he said to Sylvie. "Nobody else could have thought of the reason, so quick. Why, _of course_ he ca'n't go at twic...

The appeal was evidently addressed to the Lord Chancellor, who instantly replied, in a shrill monotone, like a little boy repeating the alphabet, "As I was remarking, your Sub-E...

"You came by the Royal Road, sweet one. Only those of royal blood can travel along it: but _you've_ been royal ever since I was made King of Elfland--that's nearly a month ago....

"But you must explain to me, please," the Professor said with an anxious look, "_which_ is the Lion, and _which_ is the Gardener. It's _most_ important not to get two such anima...

As we entered the breakfast-saloon, the Professor was saying "--and he had breakfast by himself, early: so he begged you wouldn't wait for him, my Lady. This way, my Lady," he a...

The Warden entered at this moment: and close behind him came the Lord Chancellor, a little flushed and out of breath, and adjusting his wig, which appeared to have been dragged...

The Marvellous--the Mysterious--had quite passed out of my life for the moment: and the Common-place reigned supreme. I turned in the direction of the Earl's house, as it was no...

The next day glided away, pleasantly enough, partly in settling myself in my new quarters, and partly in strolling round the neighbourhood, under Arthur's guidance, and trying t...

"My own darlings," she was saying, "I've been planning a little treat for you! The Professor shall take you a long walk into the woods this beautiful evening: and you shall take...

'Peter is poor,' said noble Paul, 'And I have always been his friend: And, though my means to give are small, At least I can afford to _lend._ How few, in this cold age of greed...