New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
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Эдит Несбит. New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

THE ROAD TO ROME; OR, THE SILLY STOWAWAY

THE CONSCIENCE-PUDDING

ARCHIBALD THE UNPLEASANT

OVER THE WATER TO CHINA

THE YOUNG ANTIQUARIES

THE INTREPID EXPLORER AND HIS LIEUTENANT

THE TURK IN CHAINS; OR, RICHARD'S REVENGE

THE GOLDEN GONDOLA

THE FLYING LODGER

THE SMUGGLER'S REVENGE

ZAÏDA, THE MYSTERIOUS PROPHETESS OF THE GOLDEN ORIENT

THE LADY AND THE LICENSE; OR, FRIENDSHIP'S GARLAND

THE POOR AND NEEDY

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It was Christmas, nearly a year after Mother died. I cannot write about Mother—but I will just say one thing. If she had only been away for a little while, and not for always, we shouldn't have been so keen on having a Christmas. I didn't understand this then, but I am much older now, and I think it was just because everything was so different and horrid we felt we must do something; and perhaps we were not particular enough what. Things make you much more unhappy when you loaf about than when you are doing events.

Father had to go away just about Christmas. He had heard that his wicked partner, who ran away with his money, was in France, and he thought he could catch him, but really he was in Spain, where catching criminals is never practised. We did not know this till afterwards.

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"Do you mean to say"—Oswald spoke firmly, yet not angrily—"that you and Alice went and begged for money for poor children, and then kept it?"

"We didn't keep it," said H.O., "we spent it."

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