Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
I must tell you that when Mrs Coo said `no,' it went off into a soft sound that was almost like `coo'; indeed most of her talking, and of Mr Coo's too, sounded like that, which is the reason, I daresay, that many people would not have understood their conversation. But it woul...
Mary stood still for a moment or two, gazing after them, or rather gazing at the place where they had been. She felt, as she would have said herself, "rather funny"; not frighte...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.Mary sprang up. She had been half-sitting on the little gate, for the surprise of finding herself at home again so quickly had almost taken away her breath. But the wood-pigeons...
2. CHAPTER TWO."Oh bother," said Mary, "it's tea--and nurse come to fetch me. What shall we do?"--"Yes, yes, nurse," in a louder voice, "I'm coming in one moment," and this seemed to satisfy n...
9. CHAPTER NINE."It _is_ nice to find you back," she said to Mary, as she drove up, with a cheery ting-ting from the ponies' bells. "And I hope tea is quite ready, for I have had rather a cold...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.It was a pretty drive to Dove's Nest, even though the summer and early autumn beauty was past, and some of the trees that bordered the road were already bare. But when they had...
1. CHAPTER ONE.I must tell you that when Mrs Coo said `no,' it went off into a soft sound that was almost like `coo'; indeed most of her talking, and of Mr Coo's too, sounded like that, which...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.It was not easy for either Mary or her aunt to keep up their spirits when the two days were over, and from the drawing-room window they watched their dear Mike driving away.
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.Miss Verity took Mary a drive again the next day. It was not as interesting as the last one--the one to Crook Edge, I mean, to see Blanche and Milly. They did not pay any visits...
3. CHAPTER THREE."I thought it was you, dear Mike," she said. "No one else comes with such a rush. I am so glad you have got off again; but I suppose it is only for two nights?"
6. CHAPTER SIX."I like making plans," Mary replied, and in her own mind she added, "it would be a good thing to know what my godmother wants me to do every day, for then I could tell the Cooie...
10. CHAPTER TEN.But no, she stood there, opening the window a little, though it was decidedly cold, in vain. There was no sign or sound of her friends, and Mary felt disappointed and rather cro...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.There was a red glow in the sky where the sun had disappeared, as Mary and her godmother came out from the shade of the trees, and stood for a moment or two on the lawn at the s...