Daddy Takes Us Skating
Category: Author:Howard R. Garis
"Is my nose red?" asked Mab of some of her girl friends.
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Category: Author:Howard R. Garis
"Is my nose red?" asked Mab of some of her girl friends.
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Category: Author:Margaret Penrose
"And you are quite sure, daddy, I am not dreaming? That I am sitting right here with my arms around your neck, and you have just told me it is all perfectly true?"
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Category: Author:Meredith Nicholson
Lily and her mother are returning from Europe on the Normandie when they meet their new sugar daddy, Rexhault. Rexhault has had a mother but no known father, and he helps Lily in the search for her parentage....
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Category: Author:novel
Tommy wasn't really a timid child. Sometimes he didn't understand things and was puzzled. More often, grown-ups couldn't or wouldn't understand things that were perfectly clear to him and he was more puzzled. Occasionally such things worried and even upset him a little. Then Momma and sometimes Daddy would translate bafflement in...
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Category: Author:novel
In the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of mysterious reality as that of an Oriental city. We knew it was actually there, but had such vague notions of its ways and looks! Let any one remember his early impressions as to Bagdad or Grand Cairo, and then say if this was not so. It was p...
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Category: Author:novel
主要讲述了 茱迪从小在孤儿院里长大,年轻的她不得不负担起众多沉重的工作,而不能享受普通女孩子拥有的家庭乐趣。有一天,她的命运被传奇般地改变了,一位自称约翰-史密斯的理事因为她出色的作文而将她送进了大学,她开始了完全不同的生活,她亲昵地叫这位理事“长腿叔叔”。在大学里,她欣喜地吸取着一切她从未有过的体验和知识,对她来说,一切都是那么新奇。她...
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Category: Author:novel
I cannot pretend that my ambition to paint the Man of Sorrows had any religious inspiration, though I fear my dear old dad at the Parsonage at first took it as a sign of awakening grace. And yet, as an artist, I have always been loath to draw a line between the spiritual and the beautiful; for I have ever held that the beautiful has in...
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Category: Author:novel
It’s twenty years ago now since we settled on the Creek. Twenty years! I remember well the day we came from Stanthorpe, on Jerome’s dray — eight of us, and all the things — beds, tubs, a bucket, the two cedar chairs with the pine bottoms and backs that Dad put in them, some pint-pots and old Crib. It was a scorching hot day, too — talk...
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Category: Author:novel
“A penny for your thoughts, Dad,” cried Lillian, suppressing a school-girl desire to throw one of the nuts on her plate at her father and rouse him from his brown study.
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Category: Author:Robert Louis Stevenso
In the city of encounters, the Bagdad of the West, and, to be more precise, on the broad northern pavement of Leicester Square, two young men of five- or six-and-twenty met after years of separation. The first, who was of a very smooth address and clothed in the best fashion, hesitated to recognise the pinched and shabby air of his com...
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