Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Ada Nicoli was just eighteen when my story opens. She was the daughter of a wealthy New York stock-broker, who took little thought of the welfare of his wife and children. Indeed, he had little time to devote to anything outside the interests of Wall Street. He went to busines...
A week before Jane and Ada returned to town, a letter came from Marion which filled Jane with dismay and showed Ada’s prognostications to be true. In this letter Marion announce...
1. CHAPTER I.Ada Nicoli was just eighteen when my story opens. She was the daughter of a wealthy New York stock-broker, who took little thought of the welfare of his wife and children. Indee...
6. CHAPTER XXIII.He pulled himself up with an astonished whistle, for the room stood empty, the table unspread, the fire unlit, while everything wore that indescribable air of desertion and negl...
5. PART V.On the 4th of April we left Jerusalem for Hebron, travelling in an ancient vehicle driven by a merry bright-eyed youth, who at intervals would put his head under the hood of the...
4. CHAPTER XXII.“If you will be sensible and take the proper precautions, you may help in the nursing. Typhoid ought not to be passed from patient to nurse, though it sometimes is. But a person...
3. PART VIII.“Onely man,” says Sir Philip Sidney quaintly, meaning by “man” what we term _a human creature_, for there is here no sex limitation, “onely man, and no beast, hath that gift, to...
2. PART X.MY DEAR DOROTHY,—You say that Aunt Anne is in a great state of mind because she has lost her copy of Uncle John’s will. She sent it to her solicitors to have their opinion on on...