VOLUME II CHAPTER XVII When the ladies returned to the drawing- room after dinner, Emma found it hardly possible to prevent their making two distinct parties;--with so much perseverance in judging and...
VOLUME II CHAPTER XIV Mrs. Elton was first seen at church: but though devotion might be interrupted, curiosity could not be satisfied by a bride in a pew, and it must be left for the visits in form...
CHAPTER 14 Gerty Farish, the morning after the Wellington Brys' entertainment, woke from dreams as happy as Lily's. If they were less vivid in hue, more subdued to the half-tints of...
Behold, my friends, the spring is come, the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of their love. Every seed is awakened, and all animal life. It is...
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 15 Winter Animals When the ponds were firmly frozen, they afforded not only new and shorter routes to many points, but new views from their surfaces of the familiar landscape around them. When...
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...