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Hetty Gray: Nobody's Bairn
Autor: Mulholland, Rosa
Nakladatelství:
Books LLC
ISBN: 9781443246545
Původní cena:
955 Kč
Vaše cena:
868 Kč
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Excerpt: or Nobody's Bairn BY ROSA MULHOLLAND (LADY GILBERT) CONTENTS CHAPTER I. FOUR YEARS OLD CHAPTER II. UNDER THE HORSES' FEET CHAPTER III. ADOPTED CHAPTER IV. MRS. KANE IN TROUBLE CHAPTER V. A LONELY CHILD CHAPTER VI. HETTY AND HER ""COUSINS"" CHAPTER VII. HETTY'S FIRST LESSONS CHAPTER VIII. HETTY DESOLATE CHAPTER IX. WHAT TO DO WITH HER CHAPTER X. THE NEW HOME CHAPTER XI. HETTY TURNS REBEL CHAPTER XII. A COTTAGE CHILD AGAIN CHAPTER XIII. A TRICK ON THE GOVERNESS CHAPTER XIV. HETTY'S CONSTANCY CHAPTER XV. THE CHILDREN'S DANCE CHAPTER XVI. A TRIAL OF PATIENCE CHAPTER XVII. HETTY'S FUTURE IS PLANNED CHAPTER XVIII. REINE GAYTHORNE CHAPTER XIX. IF SHE WAS DROWNED, HOW CAN SHE BE HETTY? CHAPTER XX. HAPPY HETTY HETTY GRAY OR NOBODY'S BAIRN CHAPTER I. FOUR YEARS OLD. Back to Contents In all England there is not a prettier village than Wavertree. It has no streets; but the cottages stand about the roads in twos and threes, with their red-tiled roofs, and their little gardens, and hedges overrun with flowering weeds. Under a great sycamore tree at the foot of a hill stands the forge, a cave of fire glowing in the shadows, a favourite place for the children to linger on their way to school, watching the smith hammering at his burning bars, and hearing him ring his cheery chimes on the anvil. Who shall say what mystery surrounds the big smith, as he strides about among his fires, to the wide bright eyes that peer in at him from under baby brows, or what meanings come out of his clinking music to four-year-old or eight-year-old ears? Little Hetty was only four years old when she stood for five or ten minutes of one long summer day looking in at the forge, and watching and listening with all the energy that belonged to her. She had a little round pink face with large brown eyes as soft as velvet, and wide open scarlet lips. Her tiny pink calico frock was clean and neat, and her shoes not very much broken, though covered with dust. Altogether Hetty had the look of a...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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