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The Picture.
A countenance in which did meetSweet records, promises as sweet. Wordsworth.
“And so, my dear Anna, you really leave London to-morrow!”
“By the ten o’clock train,” added an eager voice, “and I shan’t get to Dornton until nearly five. Father will go with me to Paddington, and then I shall be alone all the way. My very first journey by ... more...
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Two Good Homes.
“It’s as black as ink,” said Dennis, lifting one of the kittens out of its warm bed in the hay; “there’s not a single white hair upon it.”
“Madam’s never had a quite black one before, has she?” said his sister Maisie, who knelt beside him, before the cat and her family.
It was a snug and cosy home Madam had chosen for her children, in a ... more...
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CHAPTER I.
THE HOUSE IN THE LANE.
It stood not very far from the corner—the corner where the lane turned off from the high-road. And it suited its name, or its name suited it. It was such a pretty, cosy-looking house, much larger really than it seemed at the first glance, for it spread out wonderfully at the back.
It was red too—the out-jutting front, where the deep porch was, looking specially ... more...
