Category: Biographies
There were five of us. There had been six, but the Beautiful Boy was taken home to heaven while he was still very little; and it was good for the rest of us to know that there was always one to wait for and welcome us in the Place of Light to which we should go some day. So, a...
There were five of us. There had been six, but the Beautiful Boy was taken home to heaven while he was still very little; and it was good for the rest of us to know that there w...
2. SCENE I.A. Here’s a pound of candy from him. He said he had bought it for you, but on arriving he was afraid it was too trifling a gift; but hoping you would not throw it away, he reque...
3. SCENE II.MR. B. Well, you liked the candy; so I pleased you. Now you can please me. I don’t care about presents; I had rather have something that can love me. You.
4. SCENE III.5. SCENE IV.MR. E. I love you, Florence. You may not love me, for I am inferior to you; but tell me whether you do or not. If my hopes are true, let me know it, and I shall not be doubtful...
6. SCENE V.MR. C. Bishop, what does this mean? Florence Evans promised to marry me, and this very day was fixed upon. And see how false she has been! She has, as you see, promised both of...
7. CHAPTER II.Julia and Flossy did not content themselves with writing plays and telling stories. They aspired to making a language,--a real language, which should be all their own, and shoul...
8. CHAPTER III.Not many children can boast of having two homes; some, alas! have hardly one. But we actually had two abiding-places, both of which were so dear to us that we loved them equally...
9. CHAPTER IV.The time of our summer flitting varied. Sometimes we stayed at Green Peace till after strawberry-time, and lingered late at the Valley; sometimes we went early, and came back in...
10. CHAPTER V.There is so much to tell about our father that I hardly know where to begin. First, you must know something of his appearance. He was tall and very erect, with the carriage and...
11. CHAPTER VI.Once upon a time, in a great house standing at the corner of Bond Street and Broadway, New York city, there lived a little girl. She was named Julia, after her lovely young moth...
12. CHAPTER VII.Our mother’s story should be sung rather than said, so much has music to do with it. My earliest recollection of my mother is of her standing by the piano in the great dining-ro...
13. CHAPTER VIII.I do not know why we had so many teachers. No doubt it was partly because we were very troublesome children. But I think it was also partly owing to the fact that our father was...
14. CHAPTER IX.We had so many friends that I hardly know where to begin. First of all, perhaps, I should put the dear old Scotch lady whom we called “D. D.” She had another name, but that is n...
15. CHAPTER X.Many interesting visitors came and went, both at Green Peace and the Valley,--many more than I can recollect. The visit of Kossuth, the great Hungarian patriot, made no impressi...