The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

All the things that had been collected for Perks were packed into the perambulator, and at hal ...

down, because I am sure that Peter and Bobbie and Phyllis would not like me to. Their ears got hotter ...

gave a start, put her hand in her pocket, and all her body grew stiff with horror. “Oh!” she whispered ...

“If it had been glass pots here,” said Perks, “I wouldn't ha' said so much. It's there being all thi ...

“Well. Go ahead!” said Perks, grudgingly. “Well, then,” said Bobbie, fumbling miserably, yet not without hope, ...

respected a man that paid his way—and the butcher said the same. And the old turnpike woman said many ...

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Chapter X. The terrible secret. When they first went to live at Three Chimneys, the children had tal ...

out. “Bobbie, come here,” said her Mother, and Bobbie came. “Now,” said Mother, putting her arm round Bobbie a ...

Mother lighted the bedroom candles. “Yes, dear,” said Mother, “you would have loved him. He was such a ...

was given to him by the farmer who lived in the nice black-and-white, wood- and-plaster house just beyond th ...

course, she was. “If you remember, you ought to say.” “Of course she doesn't remember—but she might say so.” “I wish ...

“I think my foot's broken off, that's all,” said Peter, huffily, and sat up. Then he turned quite white. ...

“Well,” said Perks, “you won't want to be bothered with gardening just this minute, I dare say. ...

was ME. There! If it had been you, you'd have been lying on the sofa looking like a suffering ange ...

fifty times over.” “I'll go to the Doctor's,” said Phyllis; “he's sure to have some.” “Only about ho ...

she could read no farther. She never remembered how she got home. But she went on tiptoe to her room and locked ...

Chapter XI. The hound in the red jersey. Bobbie knew the secret now. A sheet of old newspaper wrapped round ...

know all,” or “All is known to me,” or “The terrible secret is a secret no longer,” would be the ...

“Oh, how could they look at him and believe it!” cried Bobbie; “and how could ANY one do such a thin ...