-CHAPTER III THE THOUSAND AND ONE BOTTLES So it was that on the twenty-ninth day of February, at the beginning of the thaw, this singular person fell out of infinity into Iping village. Next day his...
CHAPTER XXVII An Afternoon at the Stone House "Where are you going, all dressed up, Anne?" Davy wanted to know. "You look bully in that dress." Anne had come down...
CHAPTER XXXII Tea with Mrs. Douglas On the first Thursday night of Anne's sojourn in Valley Road Janet asked her to go to prayer-meeting. Janet blossomed out like a rose to attend that...
CHAPTER 16 The Pond in Winter After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain to answer in my sleep, as...
CHAPTER XVII. A New Interest in Life THE next afternoon Anne, bending over her patchwork at the kitchen window, happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad's Bubble beckoning...
CHAPTER 1 - PART 4 Economy As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on...
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett CHAPTER 8. In the Attic The first night she spent in her attic was a thing Sara never forgot. During its passing she lived through a wild, unchildlike woe...
CHAPTER 1 - PART 1 Economy When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of...
CHAPTER LI At length it was the eve of Old Lady-Day, and the agricultural world was in a fever of mobility such as only occurs at that particular date of the year. It is a day of fulfilment;...
BOOK SIXTH. CHAPTER I. AN IMPARTIAL GLANCE AT THE ANCIENT MAGISTRACY. A very happy personage in the year of grace 1482, was the noble gentleman Robert d'Estouteville, chevalier, Sieur de...