The House of Arden: A Story for Children

It had been a great house once, with farms and fields, money and jewels--with tenants and squires and men-at-arms. The head of the house had ridden out three days' journey to me...

And it was--it was the living image of the little pig-like animal that was stamped in gold above the chequered shield on the cover of the white book in which they had found the...

And, of course, it wasn't. You know the aggravating way rooms have of pretending to be quite dark until you want them to _be_ dark--and then--by no means! This room didn't even...

Three days, because there had been a quarrel. But days pass quickly when the sun shines, and it is holiday-time, and you have a big ruined castle to explore and examine--a castl...

"To Richard Arden!" shouted the Mouldiwarp of Arden as it leaped on the hour hand of the pearl and ivory clock. And then the hands went round far too fast for speech to be possi...

Imprisoned in the Tower of London, accused of high treason, and having confessed to a too intimate knowledge of the Gunpowder Plot, Elfrida could not help feeling that it would...

Perhaps I had better begin this chapter by telling you exactly how Edred "got even with old Parrot-nose," as he put it. You will remember that Master Parados was the Ardens' tut...

They both meant what they said. And yet, of course, it is nonsense to promise that you will never do anything again, because, of course, you must do _something_, if it's only si...

Then Elfrida flew to the window and set back the casement very wide, and in climbed the beautiful gentleman and stood there, very handsome and tall, bowing to Miss Betty, who sa...

Edred crept back to his stool, and took his corner of the marble-backed book of Dr. Watts with fingers that trembled. If you are inclined to despise him, consider that it was hi...

Elfrida was behind the secret panel, and the panel had shut with a spring. She had come there hoping to find the jewels that had been hidden two hundred years ago by Sir Edward...

The films were quite dry by bedtime, when, after a delightful evening with no magic in it at all but the magic of undisturbed jolliness, Edred slipped away, unpinned them and hi...

The King came slowly on a great black horse, riding between the green trees. He himself wore white and green like the May-bushes, and so did the gracious lady who rode beside hi...

Then they had dinner. The children had to sit very straight and eat very slowly, and their glasses were filled with beer instead of water; and when they asked for water Lady Ard...

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