The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

Chapter XIII. The hound's grandfather. Mother did not get back to her writing all that day, for the red-jerseyed ...

“I'll tell you what they do,” said Peter. I can't think what made him so horrid. Perhaps it was ...

not a beast, Peter. But you wouldn't stop when we asked you and—” “Yah,” said Peter, “it wasn't even yo ...

joke—” “If I were you,” said the Doctor, though really he did not quite know what to say, “I should be ...

“Well then, you see. Boys and girls are only little men and women. And WE are much harder and hardier than ...

“They're very brave,” said Bobbie, “sometimes.” “Ah, you mean the chap upstairs? I see. Go ahead, Phi ...

It would be such a surprise for them.” “Well, yes,” said Mother, laughing, “I think it would.” “You s ...

Peter's Mother put her arm round him suddenly, and hugged him in silence for a minute. Then she said:— “Don't you ...

“It's not listening,” he replied indignantly to Bobbie's scandalised remarks; “nobody in their senses would talk ...

consented to let him stay here. I thought of sending a nurse, but your Mother is good enough to say that ...

woman in a million.” “Yes, isn't she?” whispered Bobbie. “God bless her,” said the old gentleman, taking ...

Chapter XIV. The End. Life at the Three Chimneys was never quite the same again after the old gentleman ...

And so on. So, one day, when they sat down to lessons, each of them found a little rhyme at its ...

Wigsby's wise opinion on the matter. Jim was immensely pleased. He had never had a rhyme written expressly fo ...

own accord that he'll like.” “Things DO happen by themselves sometimes, without your making them,” said Phylli ...

“Hurry up,” said Peter, “or we shall miss the 9.15!” “I can't hurry more than I am doing,” said P ...

to every single passenger who passed through that door. And after nodding to what the old gentleman ...

“Yes, of course I'll let you off,” said Mother; “but—” Bobbie dropped her slate. It cracked just across the l ...

“The 11.54's a bit late, Miss—the extra luggage this holiday time,” and went away very quickly into tha ...

with a tin box and three brown-paper parcels; and the third— “Oh! my Daddy, my Daddy!” That scream went l ...