Chapter 9 The five-shilling piece which Mord Em’ly had received from the princesses for swift honesty was shown to nobody but Ronicker. The coin had a fine, substantial look about it, as though it were capable of almost anything, and Mord Em’ly, having exhibited it to her friend, returned it to her bodice. The two…

Chapter IIChild-Life in the Lowell Cotton-Mills In attempting to describe the life and times of the early mill-girls, it has seemed best for me to write my story in the first person ; not so much because my own experience is of importance, as that it is, in some respects, typical of that of many…

Chapter 17 The sergeant’s wife declared herself sorry, but her mother was coming the next day, and the spare room had to be at once prepared for that lady’s reception. The sergeant’s wife wished Mord Em’ly could have stayed on, and the infant Highlander was also full of regret, but it could not be helped….

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…

Chapter 3 If Number Eighteen, Lucella Road, had been able or had found it convenient, to keep up the fine excitement that attended Mord Em’ly’s first evening, it would have met that young woman’s demands. She was not long in discovering that, in effect, the sisters lived, for the most part, a monotonous, uneventful, economical…