The Mean-Wells

“When I had a tooth pulled out no one gave me anything,” she grumbled; “but Loveday has a shilling given her for hers, and some sweets, and such a fuss made.”

When Geoffrey and Priscilla got back, they found Loveday seated at the dining-room table, with a newspaper spread before her, to protect the table-cloth, a glass of water and a...

By the time Dr. Carlyon and the children had finished discussing the sea and the sky, they had reached the end of the level high ground and come to a steep descent, at the botto...

“Oh no; you _must_ wait until we have quite reached the top of the hill! You don’t want to make poor Betsy stand here with the carriage dragging her back all the time, do you?”

The day after the drive to Lantig, Mrs. Carlyon was having a large “At Home” in the afternoon--large, that is, for Trelint--and all the household was very busy. There were cakes...

Priscilla and Loveday looked up from their play quite excited by the news. They were keeping a shop at the moment--a book-shop--and had all their nursery books and all the bits...

But though she began her packing at once, and went on with it most industriously for the two following days, yet, when Thursday morning came, she was not, according to her own a...

Loveday was not quite sure of that at the moment, but she would not have said so; and when she thought of pale, suffering Prissy, she tried hard to choke down any selfish feelin...

Loveday had been gone more than a week, Geoffrey was nearly well again, and Priscilla was on the mend--the dreadful pain in her head had almost left her, so had her other aches...

Loveday, meanwhile, was having a most interesting and beautiful time, and she and Aaron had become great friends. They had some little tiffs and quarrels too, of course, but not...

Loveday could scarcely sleep at all that night, she was so afraid that they would not wake up early enough to start. In fact, she was so afraid of oversleeping that after Bessie...

Both Aaron and Loveday were very tired when, for the third time, they rose at dawn, crept out of the house, and up the cliff; and if it had not been for the excitement of seeing...

By this time Priscilla was so much better she was able to go for short walks and, best of all, for drives with her father. She loved these better than anything, for she had her...

Loveday was not a prisoner, but she was somewhat subdued and ashamed of herself, and Priscilla, who felt very, very sorry for her, and forgot all about her naughtiness and the i...

“Yes, he is,” answered the woman. She was so absorbed in staring at Priscilla, and studying every detail of her face and figure and clothing, one could have been excused for thi...

Four such happy, beautiful weeks followed. Mrs. Carlyon and Geoffrey came down to Porthcallis within a few days, and they all settled into the comfortable rooms Dr. Carlyon had...