日期：2020-11-12 IVE won the wager, Tom. Did nt know there was one. Dont you remember you said Polly would be tired of her teaching and give it up in three months, and I said she would nt? Well, is nt she? Not a bit of it. I thought she was at one time, and expected... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 IM perfectly aching for some fun, said Polly to herself as she opened her window one morning and the sunshine and frosty air set her blood dancing and her eyes sparkling with youth, health, and overflowing spirits. I really must break out somewhere... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 DEAR POLLY, The Sewing Circle meets at our house this P. M. This is in your line, so do come and help me through. I shall depend on you. Yours ever, FAN. Bad news, my dear? asked Miss Mills, who had just handed the note to Polly as she came in one n... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 POLLYS happiest day was Sunday, for Will never failed to spend it with her. Instead of sleeping later than usual that morning, she was always up bright and early, flying round to get ready for her guest, for Will came to breakfast, and they made a l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 THE first few weeks were hard ones, for Polly had not yet outgrown her natural shyness and going among so many strangers caused her frequent panics. But her purpose gave her courage, and when the ice was once broken, her little pupils quickly learne... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 WHAT do you think Polly is going to do this winter? exclaimed Fanny, looking up from the letter she had been eagerly reading. Going to deliver lectures on Womans Rights, said the young gentleman who was carefully examining his luxuriant crop of deci... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 OH, dear! Must you really go home Saturday? said Fan, some days after what Tom called the grand scrimmage. I really must; for I only came to stay a month and here Ive been nearly six weeks, answered Polly, feeling as if she had been absent a year. M... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 WHERES Polly? asked Fan one snowy afternoon, as she came into the dining-room where Tom was reposing on the sofa with his boots in the air, absorbed in one of those delightful books in which boys are cast away on desert islands, where every known fr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 AFTER being unusually good, children are apt to turn short round and refresh themselves by acting like Sancho. For a week after Toms mishap, the young folks were quite angelic, so much so that grandma said she was afraid something was going to happe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 ITS so wainy, I cant go out, and evwybody is so cwoss they wont play with me, said Maud, when Polly found her fretting on the stairs, and paused to ask the cause of her wails. Ill play with you; only dont scream and wake your mother. What shall we p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 ITS time to go to the station, Tom. Come on, then. Oh, Im not going; its too wet. Should nt have a crimp left if I went out such a day as this; and I want to look nice when Polly comes. You dont expect me to go and bring home a strange girl alone, d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 POLLY soon found that she was in a new world, a world where the manners and customs were so different from the simple ways at home, that she felt like a stranger in a strange land, and often wished that she had not come. In the first place, she had... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 IM going to school this morning; so come up and get ready, said Fanny, a day or two after, as she left the late breakfast-table. You look very nice; what have you got to do? asked Polly, following her into the hall. Prink half an hour, and put on he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 AS a preface is the only place where an author can with propriety explain a purpose or apologize for shortcomings, I venture to avail myself of the privilege to make a statement for the benefit of my readers. As the first part of An Old-Fashioned Gi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 A Gentleman, my lady. Taking a card from the silver salver on which the servant offered it, Lady Trevlyn read, Paul Talbot, and below the name these penciled words, I beseech you to see me. Lillian stood beside her and saw the line. Their eyes met,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-11 Is Lady Trevlyn at home, Bedford? asked Paul, as he presented himself at an early hour next day, wearing the keen, stern expression which made him look ten years older than he was. No, sir, my lady and Miss Lillian went down to the Hall last night.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-10 To no one but her mother and Hester did Lillian confide the discovery she had made. None of the former servants but old Bedford remained with them, and till Paul chose to renew the old friendship it was best to remain silent. Great was the surprise... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-10 Four years had passed, and Lillian was fast blooming into a lovely woman: proud and willful as ever, but very charming, and already a belle in the little world where she still reigned a queen. Owing to her mothers ill health, she was allowed more fr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-10 Hes a handsome lad, and one any woman might be proud to call her son, said Hester to Bedford, the stately butler, as they lingered at the hall door one autumn morning to watch their young ladys departure on her daily ride. You are right, Mrs. Hester... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-11-10 In a week Paul was a favorite with the household; even prudent Hester felt the charm of his presence, and owned that Lillian was happier for a young companion in her walks. Hitherto the child had led a solitary life, with no playmates of her own age... 阅读全文>>