# The Little Old Portrait

Author: Molesworth, Mrs., 1839-1921; Gunston, W. [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43132

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Little+Old+Portrait+Molesworth&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There was great rejoicing among the children in the farmhouse of Belle Prairie, one of the most flourishing farms in the beautiful part of Touraine where it was situated. To-morrow would be their mother's birthday, and for as long back as any of the small people could remember "mother's birthday" had always been a holiday. For it fell in June, the loveliest month of the year, and the fun began the day before, when, as soon as they were released from school, they, and some chosen ones among their companions, came racing down the village street on their way to what was still called the "chateau,"--although the house had long since disappeared--there, in the grounds now left to run wild, to...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER ELEVEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER NINE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER EIGHT.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SEVEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THREE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOUR.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FIVE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWO.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/2/index.md)
- [did. Before the sleeping boy had recovered his faculties sufficiently](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ONE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWELVE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-old-portrait-43132/chapters/12/index.md)