The Railway Children

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Эдит Несбит. The Railway Children

Chapter I. The beginning of things

Chapter II. Peter’s coal-mine

Chapter III. The old gentleman

Chapter IV. The engine-burglar

Chapter V. Prisoners and captives

Chapter VI. Saviours of the train

Chapter VII. For valour

Chapter VIII. The amateur firemen

Chapter IX. The pride of Perks

Chapter X. The terrible secret

Chapter XI. The hound in the red jersey

Chapter XII. What Bobbie brought home

Chapter XIII. The hound’s grandfather

Chapter XIV. The End

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“What fun!” said Mother, in the dark, feeling for the matches on the table. “How frightened the poor mice were—I don’t believe they were rats at all.”

She struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky, blinky light.

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The rocks and hills and valleys and trees, the canal, and above all, the railway, were so new and so perfectly pleasing that the remembrance of the old life in the villa grew to seem almost like a dream.

Mother had told them more than once that they were ‘quite poor now,’ but this did not seem to be anything but a way of speaking. Grown-up people, even Mothers, often make remarks that don’t seem to mean anything in particular, just for the sake of saying something, seemingly. There was always enough to eat, and they wore the same kind of nice clothes they had always worn.

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