Chapter 6 Tommy.—That is true, indeed, sir; I wish I had just such a globe.Mr Barlow.—Well, just such a globe I will endeavour to procure you.Tommy.—Sir, I am much obliged to you, indeed. But of what use is it to know the stars?Mr Barlow.—Were there no other use, I should think there would be a […]
Chapter 5 Some few days after this conversation, when the snow had nearly disappeared, though the frost and cold continued, the two little boys went out to take a walk. Insensibly they wandered so far that they scarcely knew their way, and therefore resolved to return as speedily as possible; but unfortunately, in passing through
Chapter 4 Some time had now elapsed since the seeds of the wheat were sown, and they began to shoot so vigorously that the blade of the corn appeared green above the ground, and increased every day in strength. Tommy went to look at it every morning, and remarked its gradual increase with the greatest
Chapter 3 Once little Harry came in from his father’s house, and brought with him the chicken, which, it had been mentioned, he had saved from the claws of the kite. The little animal was now perfectly recovered of the hurt it had received, and showed so great a degree of affection to its protector,
Once, a hunter was passing by a dense forest. He had his gun with him. When he was a little deep in the forest, he saw a pigeon perched on a branch of a tree.He aimed at the pigeon and was about to pull the trigger when a snake from nowhere came behind him and
Chapter 2 As Mr Merton said this with a certain degree of firmness, and the proposal was in itself so reasonable and necessary, Mrs Merton did not make any objection to it, but consented, although very reluctantly, to part with her son. Mr Barlow was accordingly invited to dinner the next Sunday, and Mr Merton
Chapter 1 In the western part of England lived a gentleman of great fortune, whose name was Merton. He had a large estate in the Island of Jamaica, where he had passed the greater part of his life, and was master of many servants, who cultivated sugar and other valuable things for his advantage. He
Once upon a time, there lived a farmer. He was very practical and was aware that key to prosperity in life was only hard work and sincerity. Without hard work a life had no meaning. So, he had worked very hard throughout his life, and amassed quite a lot of wealth. He wished that his
Chapter 10 Ben took his boy and went back to his cattle ranch in California, and he returned under very comfortable circumstances. Just before his going, Mr. Havisham had an interview with him in which the lawyer told him that the Earl of Dorincourt wished to do something for the boy who might have turned
Chapter 9 It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen. It had taken only a few minutes, apparently, to change all the fortunes of the little boy dangling his red legs from the high stool in Mr. Hobbs’s store, and to transform him from a small boy, living
Chapter 8 Of course, as soon as the story of Lord Fauntleroy and the difficulties of the Earl of Dorincourt were discussed in the English newspapers, they were discussed in the American newspapers. The story was too interesting to be passed over lightly, and it was talked of a great deal. There were so many
Chapter 7 A very few days after the dinner party at the Castle, almost everybody in England who read the newspapers at all knew the romantic story of what had happened at Dorincourt. It made a very interesting story when it was told with all the details. There was the little American boy who had
Chapter 6 The fact was, his lordship the Earl of Dorincourt thought in those days, of many things of which he had never thought before, and all his thoughts were in one way or another connected with his grandson. His pride was the strongest part of his nature, and the boy gratified it at every
Chapter 5 Lord Dorincourt had occasion to wear his grim smile many a time as the days passed by. Indeed, as his acquaintance with his grandson progressed, he wore the smile so often that there were moments when it almost lost its grimness. There is no denying that before Lord Fauntleroy had appeared on the
There were a few mischievous gnomes living in the nether world. Once they appeared on the earth and played a cruel joke on a woman. They stole her lovely baby and replaced it with their own little one in the baby-cradle. The woman begged for her baby, but the gnomes would not relent.The woman became