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id: 59495
author: Johnson, John
title: Reject
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words: 1884
sentence: 183
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Mr. Ames flicked his cigar ashes toward a vacuum cup on the wall and looked down at the boy. Well, Mr. Ames said, coldly.


id: 33517
author: Leslie, Madeline
title: Little Frankie on a Journey
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words: 7388
sentence: 466
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Sally was turning the mattress in her mistress's room; but as soon as she heard their voices, she presented little Frankie a small handkerchief with two pretty pictures printed upon it. Before they started from home, Mrs. Gray had partly promised her sister-in-law that she would stop there with Nelly and Frankie on their return, and make a visit; but on the last day of their journey, it was quite cold and rainy.


id: 39806
author: Brine, Mary D. (Mary Dow)
title: How "A Dear Little Couple" Went Abroad
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words: 11700
sentence: 387
flesch: 77
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summary:
  They finally decided to give a few stares back again, and little bashful Polly ventured to smile, though she didn't have anything in particular to smile about. They saw lots of little children in the street going about with great beautiful bunches of flowers--red, red roses and Italian violets in their dirty little hands, running after carriages, and holding their fragrant wares up to the ladies and gentlemen who were driving about to see the city.


id: 4030
author: Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot
title: Travellers' Stories
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words: 12194
sentence: 532
flesch: 79
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summary:
  The gardens are full of beautiful children. The old monks well knew how to choose beautiful places to live in.


id: 5955
author: Bailey, Arthur Scott
title: The Tale of Tommy Fox
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words: 15983
sentence: 1072
flesch: 94
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summary:
  She just stared back at Tommy Fox; and she didn't say a word to him, which somehow made Tommy still more peevish. He did not see Tommy Fox at all, because Tommy was hidden behind the bush.


id: 43832
author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
title: Our Little German Cousin
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words: 18415
sentence: 1340
flesch: 92
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summary:
  Do little girls in Sonneberg help make the dolls, just as Bertha and I help you on the Santa Claus images? asked Gretchen. They looked like little old men.


id: 43636
author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
title: Our Little Cuban Cousin
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words: 19724
sentence: 1344
flesch: 88
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summary:
  =Little Bermuda.= By MARIA LOUISE POOL. And Victory! cried little Isabella, who added with all her childish might, Long live Cuba.


id: 46484
author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
title: Our Little Eskimo Cousin
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words: 19915
sentence: 1203
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Yet as Mrs. Morrison's charming volume has long been a delight to me, I am only too happy to link my name with its new and enriched form in this slight way, and simply declare that it is to me the most bewitching book of songs for little people that I have ever known. You should see our stout little Etu riding the waves in his kayak, and balancing the throwing-stick on his shoulder to send the harpoon flying straight to the mark.


id: 43249
author: MacDonald, Elizabeth Roberts
title: Our Little Canadian Cousin
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words: 21158
sentence: 905
flesch: 76
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summary:
  It might, long ago, have been so arranged and protected as to make it a very pleasant summer residence, but, instead, it was now used only for a week or two in haying-time, when the haymakers slept and ate in its basement,--for this quaint little house had a basement, with a kitchen, dining-room, and storeroom. You see, mother dear, he said quite seriously, yours are a _little_ larger, so we won't be mixing them up!


id: 32118
author: Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel)
title: Child Versus Parent: Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home
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words: 25760
sentence: 935
flesch: 60
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summary:
  The temptation presses to urge parents sometimes to forget that they are parents, and to suggest to children sometimes to remember that they are children--in any event, semi-occasionally to recall that to parents children are ever and quite explicably children. The Jew who knows something of the history of his people, over and beyond the list of boarding-schools so Christian as to shut out Jewish children, knows that this was prefigured by the prophet when he announced in the unforgettable word of the Hebrew Bible: And He shall turn the heart of the parents to the children and the heart of the children to the parents.


id: 21901
author: Optic, Oliver
title: The Birthday Party: A Story for Little Folks
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words: 5433
sentence: 337
flesch: 92
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summary:
  _Miss Flora Lee presents her compliments to Miss Nellie Green, and requests the pleasure of her company on Wednesday afternoon, July 20._ _ When you buy the book, you pay the printer, the paper maker, the bookseller, the type founder, the miner who dug the lead and the iron from the earth, the machinist who made the press, and a great many other persons whose labor enters into the making of a book--you pay all these men for their labor; you give them money to help take care of their wives and children, their fathers and mothers.


id: 14608
author: May, Sophie
title: Jimmy, Lucy, and All
extension: .txt
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words: 27207
sentence: 1965
flesch: 95
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summary:
  That's the way boys make money 'back East' Then after a pause he burst forth again, Or, I might pick berries--if there were any berries! It's not so very easy for little boys to earn money; is it, dear? said Aunt Vi, putting her arm around her young nephew and drawing him toward her. As he looked at her he remembered Jimmy's play, and the parts they were both to take in it; and the thought of little Kyzie as his poor old grandmother seemed so funny to Nate that he began to laugh and called out, Good morning, grandmother!


id: 5676
author: MacDonald, George
title: A Double Story
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words: 34622
sentence: 1606
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Miserable man and woman! To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it.


id: 41966
author: Pierson, Clara Dillingham
title: Tales of a Poultry Farm
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words: 35661
sentence: 2001
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Do you see that tall White Plymouth Rock Cock over there? said the brown-haired twin to hers. Any other Hen on the farm would, but the Brown Hen will not.


id: 436
author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
title: The Master Key An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity
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words: 35614
sentence: 1748
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Rob Makes a Resolution When Rob opened the front door he came face to face with Nell, who gave an exclamation of joy and threw herself into his arms. Rob Loses His Treasures 14.


id: 31371
author: Cobb, Thomas
title: The Little Clown
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words: 19170
sentence: 1190
flesch: 94
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summary:
  And men and women gradually came out of the other vans, which stood about anyhow, and they all looked very sleepy and rather dirty, especially the children who soon began to collect round Jimmy as if he were the most extraordinary thing in the caravan. Her hand was on his arm, and her eyes wore a very curious expression, almost as if she were going to cry also, just to keep Jimmy company.


id: 908
author: Shaw, Bernard
title: Treatise on Parents and Children
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words: 40153
sentence: 1215
flesch: 57
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summary:
  With millions of acres of woods and valleys and hills and wind and air and birds and streams and fishes and all sorts of instructive and healthy things easily accessible, or with streets and shop windows and crowds and vehicles and all sorts of city delights at the door, you are forced to sit, not in a room with some human grace and comfort or furniture and decoration, but in a stalled pound with a lot of other children, beaten if you talk, beaten if you move, beaten if you cannot prove by answering idiotic questions that even when you escaped from the pound and from the eye of your gaoler, you were still agonizing over his detestable sham books instead of daring to live. But the plain fact is that in refusing to allow the child to be taught by qualified unrelated elders (the parents shrink from the lesson, even when they are otherwise qualified, because their own relation to the child makes the subject impossible between them) we are virtually arranging to have our children taught by other children in guilty secrets and unclean jests.


id: 45347
author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
title: The Master Key An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity
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words: 36632
sentence: 1756
flesch: 77
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summary:
  [Illustration] [Illustration] _CHAPTER FIVE_ THE CANNIBAL ISLAND Doubtless the adventures of the day had tired Rob, for he slept throughout the night as comfortably as if he had been within his own room, lying upon his own bed. [Illustration: Rob was surrounded by a group of natives] THE MASTER KEY _


id: 5052
author: Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
title: Absalom's Hair
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words: 38877
sentence: 2257
flesch: 84
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summary:
  A highly gifted young man like Rafael Kaas, with such excellent prospects in every way, must not, when little more than twenty, burden himself with a middle-aged wife and a number of children. Rafael Kaas a handsome fellow?--well, yes, but too big, too fair, no repose, altogether too restless.


id: 57844
author: Alden, W. L. (William Livingston)
title: The Adventures of Jimmy Brown
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words: 43749
sentence: 1785
flesch: 85
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summary:
  I said I wouldn't scalp him for nothing, for that would be cruelty; but if Mr. Travers was sure that Mr. Martin was the enemy of the red man, then Green Thunder's heart would ache for revenge, and I would scalp him with pleasure. Mr. Travers said that Mr. Martin was a notorious enemy and oppressor of the Indians, and he gave me ten cents, and said that as soon as Mr. Martin should come and be sitting comfortably on the piazza, I was to give the warwhoop and scalp him.


id: 60581
author: Moulton, Louise Chandler
title: More Bed-Time Stories
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words: 44373
sentence: 2260
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Her lips, which had never cooed over babies, or soothed the sorrows of little children, or talked nonsense to any listener, were thin, as to such seldom-used lips seemed natural. Her father and aunt had learned that little hearts need something more than to be clothed and fed; and Agatha had learned, by their care for her, their love for her, and never doubted again that she had her own place in their hearts.


id: 19889
author: Mulholland, Clara
title: Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children
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words: 33611
sentence: 1624
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Yes, dear, it will be very nice, and I hope that little Bunny will be a good child and not make her cousin naughty and teach him mischievous tricks. Very likely, Mervyn, dear, for good example is sure to have a strong effect upon little Bunny, who is more thoughtless than really naughty.


id: 46540
author: Finley, Martha
title: Elsie's Winter Trip
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words: 45265
sentence: 2138
flesch: 81
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summary:
  cried little Elsie, with a shudder of disgust. Poor thing! sighed little Elsie, I don't know how men can have the heart to be so cruel to animals that are not dangerous.


id: 39549
author: Molesworth, Mrs.
title: The Carved Lions
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words: 49365
sentence: 3309
flesch: 89
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summary:
  And it made me determine never to send any child of mine, or any child I had the care of, to a school where there was so little feeling of _home_, so little affection and gentleness--above all, that dreadful old-world rule of letters being read, and the want of trust and confidence in the pupils, which showed in so many ways. I often made up fancies about it, and pictured myself doing lessons with other little girls and reading the same story-books and playing duets together.


id: 52782
author: Harris, Joel Chandler
title: Aaron in the Wildwoods
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words: 53870
sentence: 3123
flesch: 88
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summary:
  But, Colonel, drawled Mr. Simmons, what under the sun ever got the idee in your head that Addison Abercrombie _is_ harboring your nigger? It's as simple as a-b ab, Mr. Gossett replied with energy. In his soul he despised Mr. Gossett, whose negroes were constantly in the woods, and loved and admired Addison Abercrombie, whose negroes never ran away, and who, if every slave on his plantation were a fugitive, would never call on Mr. Simmons to catch them.


id: 36099
author: Sinclair, Upton
title: A Cadet's Honor: Mark Mallory's Heroism
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words: 52481
sentence: 3478
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Mark Mallory. It was evident that the yearlings had no love for Mark Mallory, whoever Mark Mallory might be.


id: 22219
author: Howells, William Dean
title: The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story
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words: 43719
sentence: 1788
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else. But now, before I go the least bit further with the story of Pony Baker's running away, I have got to tell about Jim Leonard, and what kind of boy he was, and the scrape that he once got Pony and the other boys into, and a hair-breadth escape he had himself, when he came pretty near being drowned in a freshet; and I will begin with the hair-breadth escape, because it happened before the scrape.


id: 57283
author: Key, Ellen
title: The Century of the Child
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words: 70874
sentence: 2681
flesch: 60
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summary:
  Prof. Axel Key's investigations on school children have won international recognition. An old illiterate housekeeper who earned a living by taking school children to board was one of the best educators I have ever seen.


id: 20052
author: Yechton, Barbara
title: We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses
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words: 84352
sentence: 3980
flesch: 86
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summary:
  for she certainly didn't treat me as she did Nora, and there are only fourteen months between us, if Nora _is_ so tall, and acts so grown up. Oh, Nannie, I said, I do wish Fee _could_ go to college!


id: 39850
author: Doubleday, Russell
title: Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tales of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West
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words: 74900
sentence: 3835
flesch: 84
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summary:
  John kept his head and made every blow tell, while Jake in his anger forgot all he knew and defended himself so poorly that his opponent soon satisfied him he was the better man. John kept stamping frantically, and in an instant Billy had joined him and was also vigorously engaged in crushing out the dreaded flames.


id: 38277
author: Stables, Gordon
title: From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New
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words: 85416
sentence: 4940
flesch: 88
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summary:
  It was a somewhat sarcastic laugh; and young Archie felt sorry for Bob's mother, she looked so unhappy. Well, there is nothing like a sailing ship after all for teaching one the virtue of patience; and at last Archie settled down to his sea life.


id: 16448
author: Burnham, Clara Louise
title: Jewel's Story Book
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words: 91623
sentence: 5925
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Well, something she told me of an experience she once had, when she was a little girl, put the idea of this tale into my head; and I'll read you THE APPLE WOMAN'S STORY Franz and Emilie and Peter Wenzel were little German children, born in America. This book was written for little girls with short braids.


id: 14237
author: Philips, Samuel
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words: 89835
sentence: 4647
flesch: 73
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title:
  The Christian Home As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church; Showing the Mission, Duties, Influences, Habits, and Responsibilities of Home, its Education, Government, and Discipline; with Hints on "Match Making," and the Relation of Parents to the Marriage Choice of their Children; together with a consideration of the Tests in the Selection of a Companion, Etc.

summary:
  It is often said that the children of ministers and pious parents are usually more wicked than other children. Many children fight against these, prevent parents from performing their duties, and repel all the overtures of the Christian home, all the offers of the Spirit's baptism, abandoning the means of grace, refusing to assume the baptismal engagement taken for them by their parents; and thus, so far as they are concerned, undo and neutralize what their parents did for them.


id: 13356
author: Stockton, Frank Richard
title: The Captain's Toll-Gate
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words: 100134
sentence: 5493
flesch: 85
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summary:
  When Dick Lancaster told Captain Asher he had taken toll from two ladies in a phaeton he was quite eloquent in his description of said ladies. Very early the next afternoon the air was filled with the cries of newsboys, and each paper that these boys sold contained a full and detailed account of a remarkable attempt by an unknown foreigner upon the life of Captain John Asher, a visitor in Washington, and the heroic conduct of his niece, Miss Olive Asher, who shot the murderous assailant with his own pistol.


id: 28179
author: Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
title: The Inglises; Or, How the Way Opened
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words: 86718
sentence: 4785
flesch: 88
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summary:
  They are good little things in general, as children go. If any one had suddenly asked David Inglis to tell him what had been the very happiest moments during all the fourteen happy years of his life, he would probably have gone back in thought to the day, when on the banks of a clear stream among the hills, his very first success as a fisherman had come to him.


id: 13840
author: Everett-Green, Evelyn
title: The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London
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words: 88413
sentence: 3932
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Gertrude had heard stories of ghastly robberies, committed during these past days in plague-stricken houses, which were entered by worthless vagabonds, when all within were dead or helpless, and from which vantage ground they had gained access into other houses, and had sometimes brought the dread infection with them. We have done what we could; and we cannot be surrounded as are other houses.


id: 21367
author: Fenn, George Manville
title: Sappers and Miners: The Flood beneath the Sea
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words: 108749
sentence: 6671
flesch: 93
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summary:
  But what did the fellow say to give you an excuse for attacking him as you did? Said he was fishing, father, replied Gwyn; but that was only his insolence. Said it was all nonsense, I believe.


id: 21313
author: Fenn, George Manville
title: In Honour's Cause: A Tale of the Days of George the First
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words: 118225
sentence: 7455
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Why, boy, if you liked to make a stand for it, they would, I dare say, tell you that you are now Sir Frank Gowan. What's the matter, Frank boy?


id: 27618
author: Warner, Susan
title: The End of a Coil
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words: 170843
sentence: 12128
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Mr. Copley could run down there any day (so could he); and Mrs. Copley would be in excellent air, with beautiful surroundings. All this was said in a breath, in a rush and hurry, at the moment of taking leave; the luggage was on board, Rupert was looking after it, Mr. St. Leger's elegant figure was just stepping across the gangway; and Mr. Copley kissed and shook hands and was off, with a word to Lawrence as he passed, before Mrs. Copley or Dolly could throw in more than an exclamation of dismay to stop him. Stop him!


