Category: Novels
If anybody had happened to be walking along what was called the Robbers’ Road, in Long Forest, a part of the possessions of good King Brondé, who lived many, many hundred years ago, he would have perceived that the road was continually curving towards the right. He would also...
If anybody had happened to be walking along what was called the Robbers’ Road, in Long Forest, a part of the possessions of good King Brondé, who lived many, many hundred years...
3. CHAPTER II.King Brondé was once a poor little boy, and lived with his mother in a brown hut or cottage, near the borders of a forest. One day, when he was in the forest with some other chi...
4. CHAPTER III.We left, at the end of the first chapter, a child sleeping in its cradle within a chamber of the royal palace. To this child, this third little princess, was given the name of R...
5. CHAPTER IV.Before the father of the Lily Queen built this summer palace for his children, there dwelt in Long Forest a band of robbers. So numerous and so bold were they, that few travelle...
6. CHAPTER V.Now on this very night the Green Fairy was holding her court in Daisy Hollow, deep in the forest. How lovely were these pretty creatures, as they appeared, one after another, th...
7. CHAPTER VI.First, no blood must be shed. King Brondé’s men were to be carried off prisoners to his strong castle, in a far country,--an immense castle, whose walls were of such thickness,...
8. CHAPTER VII.All the other prisoners were carried away to the castle, but King Brondé was left,--left alone in the cave. This was because it would take too many men to guard him on the road....
9. CHAPTER VIII.If Rupert had known more of this old woman, he certainly would not have left Rosebud in her care. The place where she lived was under the control of a powerful lord, or governor...
10. CHAPTER IX.“Alas!” said Rosebud, “I have now nothing to bestow. I have seen a little lame child, and a poor, suffering, sick young maiden, and a pale woman, dressed all in black, who weeps...
11. CHAPTER X.One night Rosebud was awakened in the middle of the night by the moon shining full in her face; and, while lying there awake, she heard a noise of some one moving in the next ro...
12. CHAPTER XI.The next night Rosebud lay awake, anxiously waiting for the hour when granny should go forth with her lantern. Her heart beat quickly at the thought of what must that night be d...
13. CHAPTER XII.When the little boat could no longer be seen, Rosebud went sorrowfully back to the hut and to her bed. And there she lay, trembling, expecting every moment the return of the old...
14. CHAPTER XIII.The good king and queen, however, thought only of Rosebud. Their well-beloved child,--was she living? And, if yet alive, into whose hands had she fallen? Messengers were sent fa...
15. CHAPTER XIV.King Brondé had been so often disappointed, that he was, at first, unwilling to set forth upon so very doubtful a journey; and especially as no person could be found who could t...
16. CHAPTER XV.Now it happened that on this very day Myrtle and Rosebud had planned a visit to the town. Myrtle said they would first try their luck there, as little pedlers, before venturing...
17. CHAPTER XVI.Years passed by, and happy years they were. Rosebud, as she grew older, was the same sweet-voiced, kindly maiden, winning love from all. People gazing at her beaming face asked...
18. CHAPTER XVII.Thus it came about that Myrtle was, after all, a true prince; and his now happy father, having passed so many childless years, begged that the young couple might spend at least...