by
William Pett Ridge
London
C. ARTHUR PEARSON LIMITED
HENRIETTA STREET, W.C.
1898
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Chapter 6 Although, for some time, Mord Em’ly clung persistently to her attitude of reserve, there was little in the Home that escaped her attention. Conducted on the cottage system, the detached buildings bordered an oval, green space, with, at one end, the school-rooms and the infirmary. Each cottage had a “mother” in charge; usually…
Chapter 15 To Mord Em’ly’s great relief, her father did not appear at the cemetery, and as, for some days after this, she heard nothing of him, she persuaded herself that he had disappeared. A letter came from Henry Barden, dated from Brindisi—a brief letter, which announced the arrival there of the P. & O….