The old man went away into his imaginary paradise, and Nan into that domestic purgatory on a summer day, - the kitchen. "Let me have plenty of clean collars in my bag, for I must go at once and some of you bring me a glass of cider in about an hour -I shall be in the lower garden."
I depend upon it for it's the only thing fit for me this hot weather."Īnd Laura, the cool blonde, disposed the folds of her white gown more gracefully about her, and touched up the eyebrow of the Minerva she was drawing. "Don't forget the Italian cream for dinner. "Yes, Laura," replied the girl, coming back with the third volume for the literary cormorant, who took it with a nod, still too content upon the "Confessions of a Fair Saint" to remember the failings of a certain plain sinner. It's hardly worth while to rouse such a restless ghost as I, when I'm once fairly laid."Īs she spoke, Di pulled up her black braids, thumped the pillow of the couch where she was lying, and with eager eyes went down the last page of her book. Just bring me the third volume of 'Wilhelm Meister,' there's a dear.
#CINDERELLA STORIES FULL#
One summer morning, when the air was full of country sounds, of mowers in the meadow, black-birds by the brook, and the low of kine upon the hill-side, the old house wore its cheeriest aspect, and a certain humble history began.Īnd a head, brown-locked, blue-eyed, soft-featured, looked in at the open door in answer to the call. HOW IT WAS LOST Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about, a garden-plat stretched upward to the whispering birches on the slope, and patriarchal elms stood sentinel upon the lawn, as they had stood almost a century ago, when the Revolution rolled that way and found them young. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher StoweĪ MODERN CINDERELLA OR, THE LITTLE OLD SHOE.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett.The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane.The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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