Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
It was a sharp, frosty night late in December, the wind driving the snow in unfriendly gusts into the faces of the passers-by, and compelling all who were not actually obliged to encounter its violence to seek as speedily as possible the shelter of their own homes.
It was a sharp, frosty night late in December, the wind driving the snow in unfriendly gusts into the faces of the passers-by, and compelling all who were not actually obliged t...
2. CHAPTER II.With her mind full of concern and kind thoughts for the poor little strangers, Mrs. Morley rose early the next morning, and hastily dressing, went down before rousing her own ch...
3. CHAPTER III.It was a bright Sunday in July, and the bells of some of the neighbouring churches were ringing for afternoon service, as Susan Morley, after leaving her little brother and sist...
4. CHAPTER IV.When school hours were over on week days, Susan Morley used often to visit the homes of her Sunday scholars; and one afternoon, about a year after the events recorded in the las...
5. CHAPTER V.About two years after little Bessie’s death, Daisy, whose health had been failing very much during the summer months, was ordered to go away for some time to a drier and milder...
6. CHAPTER VI.That night the storm raged with terrible fury, and many were the anxious hearts in the valley, many the eyes that saw no sleep, but watched and prayed till morning light, “for t...
7. CHAPTER VII.It was with feelings of deep joy and thankfulness that Susan Morley heard of the events related in the last chapter. Writing back to Daisy, who had sent her the glad news, she s...