Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett is considered one of the best authors of kids' books in the 20th century, and one of her most famous stories is Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett is considered one of the best authors of kids' books in the 20th century, and one of her most famous stories is Little L...
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett is considered one of the best authors of kids' books in the 20th century, and one of her most famous stories is A Lady of Quality.
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett is considered one of the best authors of kids' books in the 20th century, and one of her most famous stories is A Lady o...
It may as well be explained, however, at the outset, that it would not take much of a sensation to give Slowbridge a great shock. In the first place, Slowbridge was not used to sensations, and was used to going on the even and respectable tenor of its way, regarding the outside world with private distrust, if not with open disfavor. The new mills had been a trial to Slowbridge, -a sore trial. On being told of the owners' plan of building them, old Lady Theobald, who was the corner-stone of the social edifice of Slowbridge, was said, by a spectator, to have turned deathly pale with rage; and,...
It may as well be explained, however, at the outset, that it would not take much of a sensation to give Slowbridge a great shock. In the first place, ...
On a wintry morning at the close of 1690, the sun shining faint and red through a light fog, there was a great noise of baying dogs, loud voices, and trampling of horses in the courtyard at Wildairs Hall; Sir Jeoffry being about to go forth a-hunting, and being a man with a choleric temper and big, loud voice, and given to oaths and noise even when in good-humour, his riding forth with his friends at any time was attended with boisterous commotion. This morning it was more so than usual, for he had guests with him who had come to his house the day before, and had supped late and drunk deeply,...
On a wintry morning at the close of 1690, the sun shining faint and red through a light fog, there was a great noise of baying dogs, loud voices, and ...
It seemed to her many years since he had begun to prepare her mind for "the place," as she always called it. Her mother had died when she was born, so she had never known or missed her. Her young, handsome, rich, petting father seemed to be the only relation she had in the world. They had always played together and been fond of each other. She only knew he was rich because she had heard people say so when they thought she was not listening, and she had also heard them say that when she grew up she would be rich, too. She did not know all that being rich meant. She had always lived in a...
It seemed to her many years since he had begun to prepare her mind for "the place," as she always called it. Her mother had died when she was born, so...