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"WELL, DEARS," SHE SAID, "AND WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING AT?" _Frontispiece_ IN ANOTHER MOMENT THE LITTLE PARTY WAS MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH THE STATION _To face page_ 48 SHE PLACED THE WHOLE ON A LITTLE TABLE WHICH SHE DREW CLOSE TO THE BED 82 "OH DON'T, DON'T CROSS THAT DREADFUL STR...
Walter went off to Nice that night. The children were not told distinctly the object of his journey. They were allowed to know that he might be passing near "the big town by the...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Some days passed; they were much the same as the first, except that the children--children-like--grew used to a certain extent to the things and people and manners and ways of t...
5. CHAPTER IV.Yes, "what was to be done?" That was certainly the question. Mr. Marton looked at his wife for a moment or two without replying. Then he seemed to take a sudden resolution.
4. CHAPTER III.Gladys said something of the same kind to herself when, looking round her in the railway carriage on that same Thursday morning, she realised that the long, long looked-forward-...
7. CHAPTER VI.So it was rather a woe-begone looking little couple, crouching together in the blanket, that met old Madame Nestor's eyes when, followed by the little servant with the biggest b...
8. CHAPTER VII.They were soon ready, for though Gladys had had vague thoughts of trying to explain that she would like the big trunk unfastened to get out their "best" things, she gave up the...
6. CHAPTER V.These were the first words that fell on Gladys's ears the next morning. I cannot say the first _sounds_, for all sorts of strange and puzzling noises had been going on above and...
11. CHAPTER X."One foot up and the other foot down, For that is the way to London town. And just the same, over dale and hill, 'Tis also the way to wherever you will."
12. CHAPTER XI.Rosamond and her aunt had a good many commissions to do that afternoon. They had not long before this changed their house, and there were still a great many pretty things to cho...
10. CHAPTER IX.Nobody came to wake the children the next morning. They slept later than usual, and when Gladys woke it was already as light as ever it was in the dull little room. But it was v...
3. CHAPTER II.Saturday brought the expected letter, which both Mrs. Lacy and Susan anxiously expected, though with different feelings. Susan hoped that nothing would interfere with the plan s...
2. CHAPTER I.It was their favourite play. Gladys had invented it, as she invented most of their plays, and Roger was even more ready to play at it than at any other, ready though he always w...
1. CHAPTER XII. PAPA AT LAST 200"WELL, DEARS," SHE SAID, "AND WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING AT?" _Frontispiece_ IN ANOTHER MOMENT THE LITTLE PARTY WAS MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH THE STATION _To face page_ 48 SHE PLACED THE...