Pig and Pepper

Chapter XIX Setting an Example It was very quiet in the senior alcove of the library. Lydia cool and serene in immaculate white duck sat back in her chair, her Hegel held well up at the proper distance and angle. Ruth was studying with her elbows on the long table of polished oak, her hands…

ESCAPADES — HUNGER STRIKES — SMUGGLED IN AN ACTRESS’S HAMPER — I VISIT THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Gradually all the conspirators who had been tried with me were released. We compared notes; described our matrons, our doctors, our special wardresses, but I kept to myself the story of the taxi breakdown. I thought it wiser….

The Pool of Tears “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!” (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight,…

Chapter 8 Mord Em’ly became a half-timer, which, interpreted, meant that school claimed her only for an afternoon and the following morning, leaving her free for twenty-four hours to work in the dress-making room or in the laundry. Her conduct improved so much that small money prizes for excellent behaviour accumulated to her credit as…