Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Do you remember Gratian--Gratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at the old farmhouse up among the moors, where these strange beautiful sisters used to meet? Do you remember how full of fancies and stories Gratian's little head was, and how sometimes h...
They were just beginning tea, and Ruby's tongue was going fast as she described to Miss Hortensia all that happened that afternoon, while Mavis sat half-dreamily wondering what...
3. CHAPTER THREE."There you are at last," she called out. "You are rather late, my dears. I have been round at the other side, thinking I saw you go out that way."
2. CHAPTER TWO.Joan, a pleasant-faced young woman who had once been the children's nurse, and was now married to a fisherman who owned several boats, and was a person of some consequence among...
4. CHAPTER FOUR."A boy," she exclaimed, "what kind of a boy? It can't be--oh no of course not. How foolish I am. At the kitchen-door, did you say, Ulrica? Who is it?"
5. CHAPTER FIVE.Winfried smiled: "It's quite possible," he said. Ruby was just turning upon him with her laughter, when something made _her_ jump in turn. Something cold and damp touched her ha...
1. CHAPTER ONE.Do you remember Gratian--Gratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at the old farmhouse up among the moors, where these strange beautiful sisters used to...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT."There's Winfried," cried Mavis joyfully. She could not help having a feeling of safety when the fisher-lad was with them, in spite of her fears about the mischief the other two...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN."It is no use," she said to herself; "I can't stop Ruby. Bertrand will just make her as naughty as himself. Oh, _how_ I do wish he had never come! All our happiness is spoilt."
12. CHAPTER TWELVE."Mavis," whispered Bertrand, when he was sure the others were out of earshot, "you can understand; they would think I was mad. Listen--stoop down--it is _she_. You know who I me...
9. CHAPTER NINE."Let's run on fast a little way," said Bertrand, "to make her think we won't wait for her. That will frighten her, and she will run after us, you'll see. Don't look round, Ruby."
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN."No, they weren't," said Mavis, laughing; "at least if they were they've come right again. Stand up, Ruby, and shake yourself, and look at yourself. There now, did you ever look...
10. CHAPTER TEN.Ruby meanwhile was running or rather stumbling down the stones. She cried and sobbed as she went; her pretty face had never, I think, looked so woebegone and forlorn; for it was...