The Red House in the Suburbs (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...Jim only smiled at that. "If ever you find 'em, Phil," he said by-and-by, "you just tell the little girl as we said 'Our Father' regular, and kept honest. I'd like her to know that much." " Take and tell her yourself, then," said Phil; " I ain't a-goin' to do no messages for you. You're strong enough to do your own, you are." In the Red House, Sybilla, unable to sleep, had risen and gone once more into the room of her little lodger. She smoothed the pillow, bent over the child, and impressed upon her forehead the kiss she had withheld earlier in the night. " I wonder why I wonder what object he had in it?" she whispered to herself, as she pushed aside the blind and looked out into the silent street, where there was very little stirring now. Sybilla did not notice the figure of a man pausing for a moment to look up at the Red House as he passed; she stood there hardly an instant, and went back to try again to sleep. A few moments later the watch of the woman at the window in the stonemason's house was ended also; the step she listened for was heard at last rapidly crossing the yard, and her husband came into the room. CHAPTER XII. THUNDER IN THE AIR. ARY SMITH Where are you?" " Here." The child's face appeared over the bannisters. "Turn dovn your bed, open your window wide, and--Mary Smith," Doris called again, as the little girl was already running to obey, " we are to have baked apples for dinner, and you are to be the market-woman, and go out and buy them." A joyful exclamation answered that, and Doris turned into the parlour, where Sybilla was rinsing the pretty Courtfield breakfast cups. " I wish," she said, " you would not call that child by both her--by two names. The habit is absurd; it worries me." " I wonder how we fell into it," said...