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Updated: June 11, 2025
She could not bear the association or memory, I believe, and with the imperious power of recovery used to keep me reading Mayne Reid's storybooks to her incessantly, or else playing at backgammon.
They were all quiet and orderly, and some of them read seriously and absorbedly for several hours on 'The twentieth century, 'The boundaries of the United States, and 'The comparative greatness of Napoleon and Alexander. The younger children read storybooks in the same quiet manner. A children's room would relieve the pressure on all three departments of the library."
"He was father of many children, mostly girls: and finally died in a very dignified and respectable manner, full of years and honors, as they say in storybooks. "His handsome property, being divided so often, made but rather small portions for the children, and several of the daughters died unmarried.
Odds and ends of tracts and storybooks recurred to her. Infantile ambitions awoke and clamored. But it was daunting, just the same, to confront those rows of eyes, and those great big, unshaved, shaggy-looking faces, all keenly waiting for her to speak. "Now, then, little lady," said the vice president, "'ere's your Band of 'Ope, a-panting to set its 'and to the plow!" Daisy cleared her throat.
"Would not that be only making up something for oneself?" said Meta. "No, the Church orders it. It is in the Prayer-book," said Ethel. "I mean one can do little secret things not read storybooks on those days, or keep some tiresome sort of work for them. It is very trumpery, but it keeps the remembrance, and it is not so much as if one did not heed." "I'll think," said Meta, sighing.
And yet really, at that moment he reminded me not so much of a man, in his supremely well-tailored riding costume, as of a tiger or a very ferocious and yet at times purring cat, beautifully dressed, as in our children's storybooks, a kind of tiger in collar and boots. He was so lithe, silent, cat-like in his tread.
Clia and I are here to protect you, and our fairy powers are sufficient to keep you from all harm." "Oh, I don't mind so very much," declared Trot calmly. "It's like the fairy adventures in storybooks, and I've often thought I'd like that kind of adventures, 'cause the story always turns out the right way."
In a poor village community the problem was no doubt an easier one; but in our more complicated civilisation it is not so easy to see how to act. Suppose that I am seized with a sudden impulse of benevolence, what am I to do? In the old storybooks one took a portion of one's dinner to a sick person, or went to read aloud to some one. But it is not so easy to find the right people.
"It is impossible," he said; "passports are required and unless she was willing to go it would be impossible to take her. You can't kidnap a girl and rush her out of the country except in storybooks, colonel." Boundary interrupted him impatiently.
I had read in old storybooks of such things. What if a boyish lover had found his way into the house, and sought to prosecute his suit in masquerade, with the assistance of a clever old adventuress. But there were many things against this hypothesis, highly interesting as it was to my vanity. I could boast of no little attentions such as masculine gallantry delights to offer.
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