Claude Spencer, and Waddles1869 - 16 pages |
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Page 65
... Mary , " said Nellie , pointing to her eldest sister ; " and baby's name is " " " Waddles , " I cried , feeling quite proud to think I had found it out at last . But - imagine my discomfiture when I heard the announcement re- ceived ...
... Mary , " said Nellie , pointing to her eldest sister ; " and baby's name is " " " Waddles , " I cried , feeling quite proud to think I had found it out at last . But - imagine my discomfiture when I heard the announcement re- ceived ...
Page 70
... Mary , the eldest girl , and little manager as I called her , was always a careful , steady child . It did one good to see her help to wash and dress baby . But I must not forget you are anxious to hear what I after- wards heard about ...
... Mary , the eldest girl , and little manager as I called her , was always a careful , steady child . It did one good to see her help to wash and dress baby . But I must not forget you are anxious to hear what I after- wards heard about ...
Page 72
... Mary said . " Dear mamma got worse ; what with anxiety about papa preying on her mind , and insufficient food : she was too weak to get up , even in the evenings . Only , " said she , " I was always thinking of those beautiful words ...
... Mary said . " Dear mamma got worse ; what with anxiety about papa preying on her mind , and insufficient food : she was too weak to get up , even in the evenings . Only , " said she , " I was always thinking of those beautiful words ...
Page 74
... Mary ; Tom leaned his elbows on his knees , resting his chin in his hands . Pre- sently he heard a slight rustling near him , and raising his eyes , found Waddles standing by his side . Taking Ducky up in his arms , and nestling her to ...
... Mary ; Tom leaned his elbows on his knees , resting his chin in his hands . Pre- sently he heard a slight rustling near him , and raising his eyes , found Waddles standing by his side . Taking Ducky up in his arms , and nestling her to ...
Page 75
... Mary that her mamma was something better , and that if she could have plenty of good support , such as beef tea and wine , she would soon be able to get about again . This was at once good and bad news to Mary . Good news ! that mamma ...
... Mary that her mamma was something better , and that if she could have plenty of good support , such as beef tea and wine , she would soon be able to get about again . This was at once good and bad news to Mary . Good news ! that mamma ...
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Page 3 - And he look'd at her and said, " Bring the dress and put it on her, That she wore when she was wed.
Page 50 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 47 - If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 23 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
Page 10 - And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They...
Page 58 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 23 - Their graves are severed, far and wide, By mount, and stream, and sea. The same fond mother bent at night O'er each fair sleeping brow ; She had each folded flower in sight — Where are those dreamers now...
Page 60 - Gently the passing spirit fled, Sustained by grace divine ; Oh ! may such grace on me be shed, And make my end like thine.