Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Priscilla Weir, Mabel Lushington, and Annie Brooke were all seated huddled up close together on the same low window-sill. The day was a glorious one in the beginning of July. The window behind the girls was open, and the softest of summer breezes came in and touched their youn...
Towards morning a thought came to Annie. She could not quite tell when it first darted through her brain. Perhaps it came in a dream. She was never quite certain, but it certain...
22. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.Annie's high spirits continued with her during all the somewhat hot journey from Interlaken to Zermatt. She was, in truth, the life of the party, and kept every one in the best...
17. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.The next day the three girls and Lady Lushington started _en route_ for Interlaken. There they put up at one of the most fashionable hotels, and there Annie began to find her fe...
18. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.The next day dawned, fresh, clear, and beautiful, with that exquisite quality in the air which so characterises Interlaken. Priscilla, when she opened her eyes in the tiny bedro...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.Nothing interfered with Annie's arrangements. She left Rashleigh by the train by which she had always intended to go up to town. She took a room at the Grosvenor Hotel for the n...
3. CHAPTER THREE."What do you mean?" she said. "Do you know that you are a horrible girl to propose anything of this sort. How dare you? I don't want to speak to you again."
27. CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN.When Annie left the "Beau Sejour" at Zermatt, Mabel felt herself in a state of distressing weakness and uncertainty. Annie had been her prop, and, as she had expressed it, she c...
25. CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE.Mr Brooke's death was followed by total collapse on Annie's part. The time between the death and the funeral was passed by the girl in a sort of delirium, in which she was too r...
19. CHAPTER NINETEEN.Annie Brooke was the sort of girl who was sure to be popular wherever she went. She had already made many friends in the Hotel Belle Vue at Interlaken. Amongst these was a quain...
28. CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT.It was a very tired Annie Brooke who arrived laden with her little bag late on a certain evening at Norton Paget. The darkness had quite set in, and when she entered the tiny st...
23. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE.In the briefest of all instants everything changed for Annie Brooke; the gay people, the gay hotel, the pleasant, easy living seemed to fade from her sight. She trembled all ove...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.John Saxon was big and square and muscular. Under ordinary circumstances Annie would have been charmed with his society. He was frankly glad to meet her, and they had not been h...
1. CHAPTER ONE.Priscilla Weir, Mabel Lushington, and Annie Brooke were all seated huddled up close together on the same low window-sill. The day was a glorious one in the beginning of July. Th...
9. CHAPTER NINE.It was a pretty old Rectory to which Annie Brooke was going in order to spend the first week of her holidays. It was situated on the borders of Wales, and the scenery was superb...
20. CHAPTER TWENTY.It is quite true that very clever people are sometimes apt to overstep the bounds of reason and prudence; and whether all that befell Annie Brooke and all that retribution which...
24. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR.It was all over--the fun, the gaiety, the good things of life, the delights of fine living, the charm of being with rich friends. It is true that Annie Brooke returned to Englan...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.No one would have supposed that Annie Brooke, brought up so carefully by such an uncle as the Rev Maurice Brooke, would so easily yield to one temptation after another. But it i...
6. CHAPTER SIX.The town of Hendon was only a mile away from the school, and the girls constantly rode there on their bicycles. They were never allowed to go without a teacher accompanying them...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.There are at all schools girls of different degrees of talent. There are the brilliant girls, the idle girls, the plodding girls. Now Annie belonged to the middle class. She kne...
26. CHAPTER TWENTY SIX.When Mrs Shelf arrived at Rashleigh she made haste to carry out her commissions. These she executed with her accustomed despatch, and would have been back at the Rectory some ti...
29. CHAPTER TWENTY NINE.Late on that same evening Rover at the old Rectory thought it expedient to raise his voice in the extreme of exasperation and anger. A stranger of the sort that ought not to be...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN."It is a quarter to twelve. You had best go at once; if you don't delay you will catch Dr Brett when he returns home for lunch. Billy can put the saddle on Dobbin for you, and t...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.The days which passed between the occurrences related in the last chapter and the great prize day went on wings. The girls were all exceedingly busy. If there were many prizes t...
21. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.Mr Manchuri was a person who seldom had his soft moods; but he was very kind to Priscilla. She found the house most luxurious, and was allowed to do exactly what she liked in it...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.It seemed to Annie that she had got quite close to John Saxon when he and she sat together on that boulder overhanging the valley below. But when they returned to the Rectory a...
2. CHAPTER TWO.Priscilla, when she left the girls' special sitting-room, went out into the grounds. She saw a group of her young companions standing on the lawn. She was, on the whole, a favou...
10. CHAPTER TEN.Mr Brooke was not very well. He was subject to very severe headaches, and had at these times to stay quiet. Annie might have noticed by his languid brown eyes and his slow and s...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.When Annie had ended her conference with Mabel Lushington--a conference which left that young lady in a state of intense and even nervous excitement, in which she kept on repeat...
16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN.After a time Annie Brooke and Mabel Lushington joined Lady Lushington in their smart dresses. Mabel looked most imposing in her pretty pink silk, and no one could look fresher a...