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CHAPTER I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.

A Little Princess 1 Sara Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as t...

CHAPTER I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.

I Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons_ [Illustration] _THE WHOLE OF THE STORY_ _I do not know whether many people realize...

Copyright, 1901, by Frederick A. Stokes Company September, 1909 [** Transcriber's note: I have corrected a few obvious printers' errors.

I THE NEW LODGERS AT NO. 7 PHILIBERT PLACE There are many dreary and dingy rows of ugly houses in certain parts of London, but there certainly could not be any row more ugly or dingier than Phil...

CHAPTER I THE WEAVING OF THE SHUTTLE No man knew when the Shuttle began its slow and heavy weaving from shore to shore, that it was held and guided by the great hand of Fate.

In the first place, Miss Minchin lived in London.

Transcribed from the 1896 Frederick Warne & Co.

I There are always two ways of looking at a thing, frequently there are six or seven; but two ways of looking at a London fog are quite enough.

CHAPTER I Perhaps the things which happened could only have happened to me.

Author of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Little Princess Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The playing today was even a lovelier, happier thing than it had ever b...

Illustrated Part One The Land of the Blue Flower was not called by that name until the tall, strong, beautiful King Amor came down from his castle on the mountain crag and began to reign.

Press of J. J. Little & Co., Astor Place, New York.

CHAPTER I The history of the circumstances about to be related began many years ago--or so it seems in these days.

CHAPTER I: The boys at the Brooklyn public school which he attended did not know what the "T."

CHAPTER I - A Difficult Case They did not look like women, or at least a stranger new to the district might easily have been misled by their appearance, as they stood together in a group, by the p...

1888 CONTENTS Little Saint Elizabeth The Story of Prince Fairyfoot The Proud Little Grain of Wheat Behind the White Brick LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS BY REGINALD B. BIRCH...

COPYRIGHT, 1921, 1922, BY THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE YEARS BEFORE Outline Arranged by Hamilton Williamson...

Olivia Ferrol leaned back in her chair, her hands folded upon her lap.

ILLUSTRATIONS "'From this night all men shall kneel--all men on whom I deign to cast my eyes'" _Frontispiece_ ...

Slowbridge had been shaken to its foundations.

CHAPTER I. Twenty Years 1 CHAPTER II. Thirty Years 11 CHAPTER III. "Not Finished" 16 ...

Copyright, 1877 To begin, I am a Frenchman, a teacher of languages, and a poor man,--necessarily a poor man, as the great world would say, or I should not be a teacher of languages, and my wife a...

There came to me among the letters I received last spring one which touched me very closely.

CHAPTER I. Eight years before the Administration rendered important by the series of events and incidents which form the present story, there had come to Washington, on a farewell visit to a dist...

CHAPTER I. It had taken him a long time, and it had cost him--José--much hard labor, to prepare for his aged grandmother and Pepita the tiny home outside Madrid, to which he at last brought them i...

A heavy curtain of yellow fog rolled and drifted over the waste of beach, and rolled and drifted over the sea, and beneath the curtain the tide was coming in at Downport, and two pair of eyes were ...

Copyright, 1877 One day at Arle--a tiny scattered fishing hamlet on the northwestern English coast--there stood at the door of one of the cottages near the shore a woman leaning against the linte...

Author of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" With illustrations by Harrison Cady [Transcribers note: see frontispiece.jpg, dance.jpg and fairy.jpg] Now this is the story about the doll family I liked an...

Copyright, 1877 He came in one evening at sun set with the empty coal-train--his dull young face pale and heavy-eyed with weariness, his corduroy suit dusty and travel-stained, his worldly posses...

This my first novel was written several years ago, and published (without any revision by me) first in a ladies' magazine under the name of "Dorothea," and afterwards in book form as "Dolly."

CHAPTER I High noon at Talbot's Cross-roads, with the mercury standing at ninety-eight in the shade--though there was not much shade worth mentioning in the immediate vicinity of the Cross-roads ...

Copyright, 1877 They were rather an incongruous element amid the festivities, but they bore themselves very well, notwithstanding, and seemed to be sufficiently interested.

Author of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" With Illustrations by Harrison Cady The Century Co.

I hope you remember that I told you that the story of Barty and the Good Wolf was the kind of story which could go on and on, and that when it stopped it could begin again.

Copyright, 1877 "Sorry to hear my fellow-workmen speak so disparagin' o' me?

http://www.pgdp.net FRANZÖSISCHE UND ENGLISCHE SCHULBIBLIOTHEK HERAUSGEGEBEN VON...

Copyright, 1877 "Prut!"

The little hunchback Zia toiled slowly up the steep road, keeping in the deepest shadows, even though the night had long fallen.

Copyright, 1877 It was Madame who first entered the box, and Madame was bright with youthful bloom, bright with jewels, and, moreover, a beauty.

ILLUSTRATED BY HAROLD SICHEL CHICAGO: M. A. DONOHUE & Co.