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?"
