A book of stories for young people, by M. Howitt, mrs S.C. Hall, &cWilliam S. Orr & Company, Amen Corner, Peternoster Row, 1848 - Всего страниц: 176 |
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Alice AMEN CORNER arms Baron von Wahlheim beautiful beech-nuts Ben Hafiz blessed boat brother butcher's wife Charlemagne child cloth cottage Curate Dame Danube dear door dressed exclaimed eyes face Fanny father FAVORITE SCHOLAR felt followed France Friedrich fruit-woman gentleman gilt edges gold Hafiz hand happy head heard heart heaven Hector husband John Barton kind king king of Persia knew lady laughed LITTLE CHATTERBOX little friend little John little Julie little Narina looked Lord Lycet mamma Mary Browne MARY HOWITT Master Howard Miss Eltham morning morocco mother never night Number nurse old shepherd papa Pappenheim picture poor PRINCESS NARINA returned Rhody round selfishness servant Sherzaran shoes silver sister smile stood stranger sure talking tears tell Theodora thing thought told took tree turned valley village voice Wahl wife woman wood words young
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Стр. 67 - So saying the good mun took out a half-franc piece* and fifteen sous,! and gave them to little John Barton, who had never possessed so large a sum in all his life. The vessel just then requiring the captain's attention, he left the little boy, bidding him rest himself, as he would have a long way to walk soon. So John threw himself again upon the boat-cloak, where he slept soundly some hours. He was awakened by a loud confused noise, and, starting upon his feet, he found that the vessel was alongside...
Стр. 83 - Est ce un songe ?"* said she, in a faint voice. " Great God ! it is my child ! it is my little Julie! it is my dear daughter!" exclaimed the gentleman, and rushing to the sofa, he caught the little girl in his arms and covered her with kisses, while she, in her turn, flung her arms round his neck and stifled him with weeping and joyful caresses. • John in astonishment beheld this scene, and wondered what could be its meaning, when the gentleman, after indulging in a long embrace of his dear little...
Стр. 68 - ... anything of the kind. At last he determined to ask, as well as he could, for some at the first shop he should come to of any kind. It happened to be a baker's ; he went in, and tried hard to make the woman he found there understand what he wanted, but in vain. John, disappointed, left the shop, fearing he should never be able to make any one understand him in France ; he walked on, and at the end of the street came to a square open place that looked like a market. To his great joy he saw on one...
Стр. 58 - Bill, that's talking to your father ? ' asked John". ' Yes, he's wanting father to buy a cargo of apples and eggs he has brought from France, and he's in a hurry to strike his bargain, because he wants to be aboard again by four o'clock tomorrow morning ; but never mind him, Jack, he speaks such gibberish, that — ' ' Did you say he was going to France" at four to-morrow morning, Bill ?
Стр. 77 - Julie together. Had he unkindly eaten all his fruit, instead of sharing it with the poor little stranger, he never could have managed his journey half so well, so that he felt how true the proverb was that he had heard his mother repeat — " a good deed always meets : its reward." By being constantly together, and helping and loving each other, John and Julie at last came to understand each other's signs almost as well as by talking ; and, by degrees, John learnt to understand a few words of French,...
Стр. 87 - Certainly, my little friend," answered the gentleman astonished; "and what then?". "And you say you nearly lost your little Julie twice in her life ! — O, it must be, it must be ! O, my dear, dear mother ! my dear mother ! " exclaimed John, nearly crying with joy, as he started from his chair, and ran to the window, just as if he could have really looked out towards his own house and his dear mother. The gentleman, amazed at this strange...
Стр. 71 - Paris," two or three times ; then pointed to himself, and then all around. The child only shook her head and smiled. John Barton did not know how to make her comprehend his meaning, when just at that moment a stage-coach came by, and stopped just where the two children were standing. On it were some words in French, and among them was one which John made out to be Paris; he pointed to it, and when the little girl saw what he meant she screamed out with joy, and exclaiming, " A Paris ! a Paris ! O,...
Стр. 59 - Oui, yes," returned the Frenchman ; " you may come, but be sure you do not be too late after— you must be quite positivement a littel before four, because I would not lose de marais, dat is to say de what you call de tide, for de universe.
Стр. 174 - With a beautiful Portrait of the Author, and the View from Richmond Hill, engraved on Steel. Price 2s. cloth, gilt edges ; 3s silk; and 4s. morocco. The SHIPWRECK, and other POEMS. By WILLIAM FALCONER, a Sailor. Embellished with Wood Engravings, by T. Landseer. Price 2s. cloth, gilt edges; 3s silk; and 4s. morocco. The POETICAL WORKS of HENRY KIRKE WHITE. With a beautiful Portrait of the Author, from Chantrey's Bas-relief, and a Landscape Frontispiece.
Стр. 67 - ... in the port of Boulogne, where a great number of people were assembled to witness the arrival of a steam-packet from London. All these people seemed to be talking at once, and at the very top of their voices. He saw some men dressed in green coats adorned with silver, with canes in their hands, who seemed to be ordering every one about, and now and then some of them conducted the people who left the packetboat to a small house at a little distance, surrounded with white pillars. There were also...