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THE RECTORY CHILDREN
BY MRS MOLESWORTH
ILLUSTRATED BY
WALTER CRANE
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1897
TO
MY NIECE AND GOD-DAUGHTER
Helen Louisa Delves Walthall
85 Lexham Gardens
Shrove Tuesday, 1889.
Shrove Tuesday, 1889.
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I |
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| The Parlour behind the Shop | 1 |
CHAPTER II |
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| Those Young Ladies | 18 |
CHAPTER III |
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| A Trying Child | 34 |
CHAPTER IV |
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| Biddy has some New Thoughts | 51 |
CHAPTER V |
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| Celestina | 66 |
CHAPTER VI |
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| The Window in the Wall | 83 |
CHAPTER VII |
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| On the Seashore | 99 |
CHAPTER VIII |
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| A Nice Plan | 117 |
CHAPTER IX |
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| A Secret | 134 |
CHAPTER X |
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| Biddy's Escapade | 151 |
CHAPTER XI |
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| And its Consequences | 169 |
CHAPTER XII |
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| Another Birthday | 186 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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| '——and—oh, Alie, I have so torn my frock, and it's my afternoon one—my new merino' | 27 |
| 'Little girl,' she called, when she got close to the other child | 75 |
| 'It's like a magic-lantern; no, I mean a peep-show' | 89 |
| 'I would like to go there,' she said | 115 |
| A secret | 148 |
| ——carrying between them a little dripping figure, with streaming hair, white face, and closed eyes | 161 |
| 'Now, Biddy. Open your eyes' | 195 |
| 'O little hearts! that throb and beat, |
| With such impatient, feverish heat, |
| Such limitless and strong desires.'—Longfellow. |
THE RECTORY CHILDREN
CHAPTER I
THE PARLOUR BEHIND THE SHOP
| 'I was very solitary indeed.' |
| (Visit to the Cousins).—Mary Lamb. |
The blinds had been drawn down for some time in the back parlour behind Mr. Fairchild's shop in Pier Street, the principal street in the little town of Seacove. And the gas was lighted, though