Excerpts from the Book 'The Long Vacation':
... Gerald. It was 'The Tempest', wasn't it? said Anna. Not really! exclaimed Mrs. Grinstead. About as like as a wren to ...
... was able to entrust the bicycles to one of them, while he himself undertook to lead Mr. Underwood's horse to the stable. Anna rode off at as ...
... pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral.-Hamlet. The Matrons, otherwise denominated lady patronesses, met in committee, ...
... then tell the next about it. I read all I can, and I think I shall get consent to give some elementary lectures at the High School, though Uncle ...
... your mother and Aunt Wilmet are twin sisters ? Oh yes, though Aunt Wilmet is stout and jolly, and mother ever so much prettier and more ...
... delight. He was not to go home immediately on the break-up of the school, but was to wait for his sisters, who were coming in a few days more ...
... laugh and say- Such is my woeful lack of experience. We have fallen on a bazaar wherever we went, said Lady Merrifield. ...
... away by the spirit of the thing, and so anxious about the performance, that he made all the rest, including Clement, join in singing Autolycus's ...
... it is only an attempt at extortion, said Clement. Very cruel, said Geraldine. How-how did my poor boy bear it all this time? ...
... and the four young ladies were escorted by Gerald and the engineer. The elders were much too tired for further adventures, and Geraldine ...
... result of which she was exceedingly delighted. The voluntary schools were secured for the present, and the gratitude of the Church folk was ...
... to be put under a glass shade, but on a second view, with a thoughtful sweetness and depth in her face that made her not merely pretty but lovely. ...
... expulsion of lady nurses. Of course she had to retire, and happily for her, Mother Constance was just at that time sentenced by her rheumatism ...
... paid in these new and delightful scenes. Phyllis had been there before. She was weak and languid, and would much rather have stayed at home, ...
... commotion that would be excited if Ivinghoe's flirtation came to any crisis. His mother would never forgive her, his father would hardly do so ...
... but Sophia could have had any preparation. It is pleasant to think of poor Alda's delight, said Geraldine, over her writing-case. After ...
... or poor, or mission-folk at home. It was a trust to be kept for Lancelot and his boy, who would make the summer home of the family there, to ...
... It would not be so if Annie were there. We should go out, and miss the horrid aldermanic kind of dinners and at home, when we had ...
... the eye, and what is regard to whatever things are lovely. I believe the principle is really in each case to try whether the high object or the ...
... HER RIVAL CHAPTER XXX. DREAMS AND NIGHTINGALES CHAPTER XXXI. THE COLD SHOULDER CHAPTER XXXII. THE TEST OF DAY-DREAMS CHAPTER XXXIII. A MISSIONARY ...