Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

The Story of the White-Rock Cove

The Story of the White-Rock Cove--"_to be written down all from the very beginning_"--is urgently required by certain youthful petitioners, whose importunity is hard to resist; and the request is sealed by a rosy pair of lips from the little face nestling at my side, in a mann...

Chapters

6. Chapter 6

There are some unfortunate children who seem fated to have their holidays and special occasions drowned in rain. I, on the contrary, belonged to the favoured class, accustomed a...

4. Chapter 4

A month after Aleck's arrival at Braycombe, it seemed so perfectly natural to have him with us--he had fitted so completely into the position of companion, play-fellow, school-f...

8. Chapter 8

Half-past eight o'clock in the morning. The gong had sounded, and we had all assembled in the library for prayers. All but Aleck, who, for the first time since he had been with...

9. Chapter 9

To bed; but not to my usual peaceful sleep; for all the night through one terrible dream seemed to succeed the other, until, in the act of landing at the White-Rock Cove, and ca...

1. Chapter 1

The Story of the White-Rock Cove--"_to be written down all from the very beginning_"--is urgently required by certain youthful petitioners, whose importunity is hard to resist;...

3. Chapter 3

To what boy or girl does not the promise of a whole holiday convey a sort of Fortunatus' purse of anticipated enjoyment! I used to wonder--I remember wondering that very day aft...

7. Chapter 7

In the meantime Ralph had been busy getting all the things ready for our sail; so we took our places in the boat, and stood out to sea. The wind being steadily off shore, our pr...

11. Chapter 11

It was quite a festival when he was first carried down-stairs; and then again when he was taken out in the carriage for a drive, lying at full length upon a sort of couch which...

2. Chapter 2

It is almost unnecessary to remark that the fortnight preceding my cousin's arrival was one of the longest I had ever spent--even longer than those preceding birth-days or Chris...

5. Chapter 5

My story would grow too long were I to tell of all the employments, amusements, and adventures, which made the months fly rapidly by with us boys that summer and autumn long ago...

10. Chapter 10

Where I was, why I was where I was, and what time of the day or night it might happen to be--were questions which presented themselves to my mind in hazy succession, as, roused...