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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman chapter 7.

can you recommend me to a good hotel the speaker had no inside to his head gerald had the best of reasons for knowing it the speaker's coat had no shoulders inside it only the crossbar that a jacket is slung on by careful ladies the hand raised in interrogation was not a hand at all it was a glove lumpily stuffed with pocket handkerchiefs and the arm attached to it was only kathleen's school umbrella yet the whole thing was alive and was asking a definite and for anybody else anybody who really was a body a reasonable question

with a sensation of inward sinking gerald realized that now or never was the time for him to rise to the occasion and at the thought he inwardly sank more deeply than before it seemed impossible to rise in the very smallest degree

i beg your pardon was absolutely the best he could do and the painted pointed paper face turned to him once more and once more said

you want a hotel gerald repeated stupidly a good hotel a l reiterated the painted lips i'm awfully sorry gerald went on one can always be polite of course whatever happens and politeness came natural to him but all our hotels shut so early about eight i think akamer said the ugly ugly gerald even now does not understand how that practical joke hastily rot of hat overcoat paper face and limp hands could have managed by just being alive to become perfectly respectable apparently about 50 years old and obviously well known and respected in his own suburb the kind of man who travels first class and smokes expensive cigars gerald knew this time without need of repetition that the ugly wugley had said knock him up

you can't gerald explained they're all stone deaf every single person who keeps a hotel in this town it's he wildly plunged it's a county council law only deaf people are allowed to keep hotels it's because of the hops and the beer he found himself adding you know hops are so good for earache

said the respectable ugly ugly and gerald was not surprised to find that the thing did not quite follow him it is a little difficult at first he said the other ugly uglies were crowding around the lady in the poke bonnet said gerald found he was getting quite clever at understanding the conversation of those who had no roofs to their mouths if not a hotel a lodging my lodging is on the cold ground sang itself unbidden and unavailing in gerald's ear yet stay was it unavailing

i do know a lodging he said slowly but the tallest of the ugly wigglys pushed forward he was dressed in the old brown overcoat and top hat which always hung on the school hat stand to discourage possible burglars by deluding them into the idea that there was a gentleman of the house and that he was at home he had an heir at once more sporting and less reserved than that of the first speaker and anyone could see that he was not quite a gentleman

he began but the lady ugly wuggly in the flower wreathed hat interrupted him she spoke more distinctly than the others owing as gerald found afterwards to the fact that her mouth had been drawn open and the flap cut from the aperture had been folded back so that she really had something like a roof to her mouth though it was only a paper one what i want to know gerald understood her to say is where are the carriages we ordered i don't know said gerald but i'll find out but we ought to be moving he added you see the performance is over and they want to shut up the house and put the lights out let's be moving

ekiely repeated the respectable ugly wuggly and stepped towards the front door uh said the flower wreathed one...

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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman chapter 7.

can you recommend me to a good hotel the speaker had no inside to his head gerald had the best of reasons for knowing it the speaker's coat had no shoulders inside it only the crossbar that a jacket is slung on by careful ladies the hand raised in interrogation was not a hand at all it was a glove lumpily stuffed with pocket handkerchiefs and the arm attached to it was only kathleen's school umbrella yet the whole thing was alive and was asking a definite and for anybody else anybody who really was a body a reasonable question

with a sensation of inward sinking gerald realized that now or never was the time for him to rise to the occasion and at the thought he inwardly sank more deeply than before it seemed impossible to rise in the very smallest degree

i beg your pardon was absolutely the best he could do and the painted pointed paper face turned to him once more and once more said

you want a hotel gerald repeated stupidly a good hotel a l reiterated the painted lips i'm awfully sorry gerald went on one can always be polite of course whatever happens and politeness came natural to him but all our hotels shut so early about eight i think akamer said the ugly ugly gerald even now does not understand how that practical joke hastily rot of hat overcoat paper face and limp hands could have managed by just being alive to become perfectly respectable apparently about 50 years old and obviously well known and respected in his own suburb the kind of man who travels first class and smokes expensive cigars gerald knew this time without need of repetition that the ugly wugley had said knock him up

you can't gerald explained they're all stone deaf every single person who keeps a hotel in this town it's he wildly plunged it's a county council law only deaf people are allowed to keep hotels it's because of the hops and the beer he found himself adding you know hops are so good for earache

said the respectable ugly ugly and gerald was not surprised to find that the thing did not quite follow him it is a little difficult at first he said the other ugly uglies were crowding around the lady in the poke bonnet said gerald found he was getting quite clever at understanding the conversation of those who had no roofs to their mouths if not a hotel a lodging my lodging is on the cold ground sang itself unbidden and unavailing in gerald's ear yet stay was it unavailing

i do know a lodging he said slowly but the tallest of the ugly wigglys pushed forward he was dressed in the old brown overcoat and top hat which always hung on the school hat stand to discourage possible burglars by deluding them into the idea that there was a gentleman of the house and that he was at home he had an heir at once more sporting and less reserved than that of the first speaker and anyone could see that he was not quite a gentleman

he began but the lady ugly wuggly in the flower wreathed hat interrupted him she spoke more distinctly than the others owing as gerald found afterwards to the fact that her mouth had been drawn open and the flap cut from the aperture had been folded back so that she really had something like a roof to her mouth though it was only a paper one what i want to know gerald understood her to say is where are the carriages we ordered i don't know said gerald but i'll find out but we ought to be moving he added you see the performance is over and they want to shut up the house and put the lights out let's be moving

ekiely repeated the respectable ugly wuggly and stepped towards the front door uh said the flower wreathed one...

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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman chapter 6

johnson was the hero of the hour it was he who had tracked the burglars laid his plans and recovered the lost silver he had not thrown the stone public opinion decided that mabel and her aunt must have been mistaken in supposing that there was a stone at all but he did not deny the warning letter it was gerald who went out after breakfast to buy the newspaper and who read aloud to the others the two columns of fiction which were the littlesby observer's report of the facts as he read every mouth opened wider and wider and when he ceased with this gifted fellow townsmen with detective instincts which outrivled those of monsieur's lakotan homes and whose promotion is now assured there was quite a blank silence well said jimmy breaking it he doesn't stick it on neither does he i feel said kathleen as if it was our fault as if it was us had told all these whoppers because if it hadn't been for you they couldn't have jerry how could he say all that well said gerald trying to be fair you know after all the chap had to say something i'm glad i he stopped abruptly you're glad you what no matter said he with an air of putting away affairs of state now what are we going to do today the faithful mabel approaches she will want her ring and you and jimmy want it too oh i know mademoiselle hasn't had any attention paid to her for more days that our hero likes to confess i wish you wouldn't always call yourself our hero said jimmy you aren't mine anyhow you're both of you mine said kathleen hastily good little girl gerald smiled annoyingly keep baby brother in a good temper till nursey comes back you're not going out without us kathleen asked in haste i haste away tis market day thank gerald and in the market there by roses for my fair if you want to come to get your boots on and look slippy about it i don't want to come said jimmy and sniffed kathleen turned a despairing look on gerald oh james james said gerald sadly how difficult you make it for me to forget that you're my little brother if ever i treat you like one of the other chaps and rot you like i should turner or moberly or any of my pals well this is what comes of it you don't call them your baby brothers said jimmy and truly no and i'll take precious good care i don't call you it again come on my hero and heroine the devoted mess roar is your salaaming slave

the three met mabel opportunely at the corner of the square where every friday the stalls and the awnings and the green umbrellas were pitched and poultry pork pottery vegetables sweets toys tools mirrors and all sorts of other interesting merchandise were spread out on trestle tables piled on carts whose horses were stabled and whose shafts were held in place by piled wooden cases or laid out as in the case of crockery and hardware on the bare flagstones of the marketplace the sun was shining with great goodwill and as mabel remarked all nature looked smiling and gay there were a few bunches of flowers among the vegetables and the children hesitated balanced in choice mignonette is sweet said mabel roses are roses said kathleen carnations are tuppence said jimmy and gerald sniffing among the bunches of tightly tied tea roses agreed that this settled it so the carnations were bought a bunch of yellow ones like sulfur a bunch of white ones like clotted cream and a bunch of red ones like the cheeks of the doll that kathleen never played with they took the carnations home and kathleen's green hair ribbon came in beautifully for tying them up which was hastily done on the doorstep then discreetly gerald knocked at the door of the drawing room where mademoiselle seemed to sit...

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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman chapter 6

johnson was the hero of the hour it was he who had tracked the burglars laid his plans and recovered the lost silver he had not thrown the stone public opinion decided that mabel and her aunt must have been mistaken in supposing that there was a stone at all but he did not deny the warning letter it was gerald who went out after breakfast to buy the newspaper and who read aloud to the others the two columns of fiction which were the littlesby observer's report of the facts as he read every mouth opened wider and wider and when he ceased with this gifted fellow townsmen with detective instincts which outrivled those of monsieur's lakotan homes and whose promotion is now assured there was quite a blank silence well said jimmy breaking it he doesn't stick it on neither does he i feel said kathleen as if it was our fault as if it was us had told all these whoppers because if it hadn't been for you they couldn't have jerry how could he say all that well said gerald trying to be fair you know after all the chap had to say something i'm glad i he stopped abruptly you're glad you what no matter said he with an air of putting away affairs of state now what are we going to do today the faithful mabel approaches she will want her ring and you and jimmy want it too oh i know mademoiselle hasn't had any attention paid to her for more days that our hero likes to confess i wish you wouldn't always call yourself our hero said jimmy you aren't mine anyhow you're both of you mine said kathleen hastily good little girl gerald smiled annoyingly keep baby brother in a good temper till nursey comes back you're not going out without us kathleen asked in haste i haste away tis market day thank gerald and in the market there by roses for my fair if you want to come to get your boots on and look slippy about it i don't want to come said jimmy and sniffed kathleen turned a despairing look on gerald oh james james said gerald sadly how difficult you make it for me to forget that you're my little brother if ever i treat you like one of the other chaps and rot you like i should turner or moberly or any of my pals well this is what comes of it you don't call them your baby brothers said jimmy and truly no and i'll take precious good care i don't call you it again come on my hero and heroine the devoted mess roar is your salaaming slave

the three met mabel opportunely at the corner of the square where every friday the stalls and the awnings and the green umbrellas were pitched and poultry pork pottery vegetables sweets toys tools mirrors and all sorts of other interesting merchandise were spread out on trestle tables piled on carts whose horses were stabled and whose shafts were held in place by piled wooden cases or laid out as in the case of crockery and hardware on the bare flagstones of the marketplace the sun was shining with great goodwill and as mabel remarked all nature looked smiling and gay there were a few bunches of flowers among the vegetables and the children hesitated balanced in choice mignonette is sweet said mabel roses are roses said kathleen carnations are tuppence said jimmy and gerald sniffing among the bunches of tightly tied tea roses agreed that this settled it so the carnations were bought a bunch of yellow ones like sulfur a bunch of white ones like clotted cream and a bunch of red ones like the cheeks of the doll that kathleen never played with they took the carnations home and kathleen's green hair ribbon came in beautifully for tying them up which was hastily done on the doorstep then discreetly gerald knocked at the door of the drawing room where mademoiselle seemed to sit...

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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman chapter 5 search and research proving vain said gerald when every corner of the bedroom had been turned out and the ring had not been found the noble detective hero of our tale remarked that he would have other fish to fry in half a gif and if the rest of you want to hear about last night let's keep it till we get to mabel said kathleen heroically the assignation was 10 30 wasn't it why shouldn't gerald gass as we go along i don't suppose anything very much happened anyhow this of course was jimmy that shows remarked gerald sweetly how much you know the melancholy mabel will await the tryst without success as far as this one is concerned fish fish other fish other fish i fry he warbled to the tune of cherry ripe till kathleen could have pinched him jimmy turned coldly away remarking when you've quite done but gerald went on singing where the lips of johnson's smile there's the land of cherry isle other fish other fish fish eye fry stately johnson come and buy how can you asked kathleen be so aggravating i don't know said gerald returning to prose wand of sleep or intoxication of success i mean come where no one can hear us oh come to some island where no one can hear and beware of the keyhole that's glued to an ear he whispered opened the door suddenly and there sure enough was eliza stooping without she flicked feebly at the wainscot with the duster but concealment was vain you know what listeners never hear said jimmy severely i didn't then so there said eliza whose listening ears were crimson so they passed out and up the high street to sit on the churchyard wall and dangle their legs and all the way gerald's lips were shut into a thin obstinate line now said kathleen oh cherry don't be a goat i'm simply dying to hear what happened that's better said gerald and he told his story as he told it some of the white mystery and magic of the moonlit gardens got into his voice and his words so that when he told of the statues that came alive and the great beast that was alive through all its stone kathleen thrilled responsive clutching his arm and even jimmy ceased to kick the wall with his boot heels and listened open-mouthed then came the thrilling tale of the burglars and the warning letter flung into the peaceful company of mabel her aunt and the bread and butter pudding gerald told the story with the greatest enjoyment and such fullness of detail that the church clock chimed half past 11 as he said having done all that human agency could do and further help being despaired of our gallant young detective hello there's mabel there was the tail board of a cart shed her almost at their feet i couldn't wait any longer she explained when you didn't come and i got a lift has anything more happened the burglars had gone when bates got to the strong room you don't mean to say all that wheeze is real jimmy asked of course it's real said kathleen go on jerry he's just got to where he threw the stone into your bread and butter pudding mabel go on mabel climbed onto the wall you've got visible again quicker than i did she said gerald nodded and resumed

our story must be told in as few words as possible owing to the fish frying taking place at 12 and it's past the half hour now having left his missive to do its warning work gerald the sherlock holmes sped back wrapped in invisibility to the spot whereby the light of their dark lanterns the burglars were still still burgling with the utmost punctuality and dispatch i didn't see any sense in running into danger so i just waited outside the passage where the steps are you know mabel nodded presently they came out very cautiously of course and looked about them...

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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman chapter 5 search and research proving vain said gerald when every corner of the bedroom had been turned out and the ring had not been found the noble detective hero of our tale remarked that he would have other fish to fry in half a gif and if the rest of you want to hear about last night let's keep it till we get to mabel said kathleen heroically the assignation was 10 30 wasn't it why shouldn't gerald gass as we go along i don't suppose anything very much happened anyhow this of course was jimmy that shows remarked gerald sweetly how much you know the melancholy mabel will await the tryst without success as far as this one is concerned fish fish other fish other fish i fry he warbled to the tune of cherry ripe till kathleen could have pinched him jimmy turned coldly away remarking when you've quite done but gerald went on singing where the lips of johnson's smile there's the land of cherry isle other fish other fish fish eye fry stately johnson come and buy how can you asked kathleen be so aggravating i don't know said gerald returning to prose wand of sleep or intoxication of success i mean come where no one can hear us oh come to some island where no one can hear and beware of the keyhole that's glued to an ear he whispered opened the door suddenly and there sure enough was eliza stooping without she flicked feebly at the wainscot with the duster but concealment was vain you know what listeners never hear said jimmy severely i didn't then so there said eliza whose listening ears were crimson so they passed out and up the high street to sit on the churchyard wall and dangle their legs and all the way gerald's lips were shut into a thin obstinate line now said kathleen oh cherry don't be a goat i'm simply dying to hear what happened that's better said gerald and he told his story as he told it some of the white mystery and magic of the moonlit gardens got into his voice and his words so that when he told of the statues that came alive and the great beast that was alive through all its stone kathleen thrilled responsive clutching his arm and even jimmy ceased to kick the wall with his boot heels and listened open-mouthed then came the thrilling tale of the burglars and the warning letter flung into the peaceful company of mabel her aunt and the bread and butter pudding gerald told the story with the greatest enjoyment and such fullness of detail that the church clock chimed half past 11 as he said having done all that human agency could do and further help being despaired of our gallant young detective hello there's mabel there was the tail board of a cart shed her almost at their feet i couldn't wait any longer she explained when you didn't come and i got a lift has anything more happened the burglars had gone when bates got to the strong room you don't mean to say all that wheeze is real jimmy asked of course it's real said kathleen go on jerry he's just got to where he threw the stone into your bread and butter pudding mabel go on mabel climbed onto the wall you've got visible again quicker than i did she said gerald nodded and resumed

our story must be told in as few words as possible owing to the fish frying taking place at 12 and it's past the half hour now having left his missive to do its warning work gerald the sherlock holmes sped back wrapped in invisibility to the spot whereby the light of their dark lanterns the burglars were still still burgling with the utmost punctuality and dispatch i didn't see any sense in running into danger so i just waited outside the passage where the steps are you know mabel nodded presently they came out very cautiously of course and looked about them...

The Wishing Well by Mildred A. Wirt Benson 6 Free Young Adult Novel Audiobook Public Domain

The Wishing Well by Mildred A. Wirt Benson 6 Free Young Adult Novel Audiobook Public Domain

The Wishing Well by Mildred A. Wirt Benson 5 Free Young Adult Novel Audiobook Public Domain.
chapter 5 of the wishing well by mildred a worth benson this liverbox recording is in the public domain reading by cheryl adam skowhegan maine 2016 chapter five strangers from texas jerry smiled broadly as he edged the car from its parking space by the curb you certainly have a vivid imagination penny he accused those two men didn't look like plainclothes men to me anyway if ted weigand had committed an illegal act wouldn't it be your duty to turn him over to the authorities i suppose so penny admitted unwillingly ted stole one of truman crocker's chickens today it was a dreadful thing to do but in a way you couldn't blame him too much i'm sure the breems needed food stealing is stealing i don't know the lad but if a fella is crooked in small things he's usually dishonest in others as well speaking of truman crocker he was the man who hauled the big rock to the museum was he penny inquired not particularly interested in the information i understand he does a great deal of rock hauling around riverview a queer fellow becoming absorbed in her own thoughts penny had little to say until the car drew up in front of the parker home won't you come in she invited jerry as she alighted can't tonight he declined regretfully i haven't dated a bowling alley mr parker had been called downtown to attend a meeting penny discovered upon entering the house unable to tell him of her trip to the museum she tried to interest mrs weems in the story however the housekeeper who was eager to start for a moving picture theater soon cut her short excuse me penny but i really must be leaving or i'll be late she apologized putting on her hat i thought you were interested in mystery mrs williams mystery yes smiled the housekeeper to tell you the truth though i can't become very excited over an old stone no matter what's written on it after mrs williams had gone penny was left alone in the big house she sat down to read a book but soon laid it aside to pass the time she thought she would make a batch of fudge but no sooner had she mixed the sugar and chocolate together that it seemed like a useless occupation so she set aside the pan for mrs williams to finish upon her return from the movie i know what i'll do she thought suddenly i wonder why i didn't think of it sooner hastening to the telephone she calls her chum louise asking her to come over at once what's up the other inquired curiously we're going to carry out a philanthropic enterprise lou i'll tell you about it when you get here one of these days you'll choke on some of those big words louise grumbled all right i'll come fifteen minutes later she arrived at the parker home to find penny garbed in an apron working industriously in the kitchen say what is this louise demanded suspiciously if you tricked me into helping you with the dishes i'm going straight home oh relax penny laughed the dishes were done hours ago we're going to help out the old wishing well i wish you'd explain what you mean it's this way lou the brains are as poor as church mice and they need food at the marlborough place this afternoon rhoda made a wish that her family would have more to eat well it's up to us to make that wish come true you're preparing a basket of food to take out to the camp that's the general idea we can leave it on the doorstep of the trailer and slip away without revealing our identity why your idea is a splendid one louise suddenly approved of course mrs weems said it would be all right to fix the basket of food oh she won't mind i know she'd want me to do it if she were here swinging open the porcelain door of the icebox penny peered into the illuminated shelves the refrigerator was unusually well stocked for mrs weems had baked that day in anticipation of weekend appetites without hesitation penny handed out a meatloaf a plum pudding bunches of radishes scrubbed carrots celery and a dozen fresh eggs...

The Wishing Well by Mildred A. Wirt Benson 5 Free Young Adult Novel Audiobook Public Domain.
chapter 5 of the wishing well by mildred a worth benson this liverbox recording is in the public domain reading by cheryl adam skowhegan maine 2016 chapter five strangers from texas jerry smiled broadly as he edged the car from its parking space by the curb you certainly have a vivid imagination penny he accused those two men didn't look like plainclothes men to me anyway if ted weigand had committed an illegal act wouldn't it be your duty to turn him over to the authorities i suppose so penny admitted unwillingly ted stole one of truman crocker's chickens today it was a dreadful thing to do but in a way you couldn't blame him too much i'm sure the breems needed food stealing is stealing i don't know the lad but if a fella is crooked in small things he's usually dishonest in others as well speaking of truman crocker he was the man who hauled the big rock to the museum was he penny inquired not particularly interested in the information i understand he does a great deal of rock hauling around riverview a queer fellow becoming absorbed in her own thoughts penny had little to say until the car drew up in front of the parker home won't you come in she invited jerry as she alighted can't tonight he declined regretfully i haven't dated a bowling alley mr parker had been called downtown to attend a meeting penny discovered upon entering the house unable to tell him of her trip to the museum she tried to interest mrs weems in the story however the housekeeper who was eager to start for a moving picture theater soon cut her short excuse me penny but i really must be leaving or i'll be late she apologized putting on her hat i thought you were interested in mystery mrs williams mystery yes smiled the housekeeper to tell you the truth though i can't become very excited over an old stone no matter what's written on it after mrs williams had gone penny was left alone in the big house she sat down to read a book but soon laid it aside to pass the time she thought she would make a batch of fudge but no sooner had she mixed the sugar and chocolate together that it seemed like a useless occupation so she set aside the pan for mrs williams to finish upon her return from the movie i know what i'll do she thought suddenly i wonder why i didn't think of it sooner hastening to the telephone she calls her chum louise asking her to come over at once what's up the other inquired curiously we're going to carry out a philanthropic enterprise lou i'll tell you about it when you get here one of these days you'll choke on some of those big words louise grumbled all right i'll come fifteen minutes later she arrived at the parker home to find penny garbed in an apron working industriously in the kitchen say what is this louise demanded suspiciously if you tricked me into helping you with the dishes i'm going straight home oh relax penny laughed the dishes were done hours ago we're going to help out the old wishing well i wish you'd explain what you mean it's this way lou the brains are as poor as church mice and they need food at the marlborough place this afternoon rhoda made a wish that her family would have more to eat well it's up to us to make that wish come true you're preparing a basket of food to take out to the camp that's the general idea we can leave it on the doorstep of the trailer and slip away without revealing our identity why your idea is a splendid one louise suddenly approved of course mrs weems said it would be all right to fix the basket of food oh she won't mind i know she'd want me to do it if she were here swinging open the porcelain door of the icebox penny peered into the illuminated shelves the refrigerator was unusually well stocked for mrs weems had baked that day in anticipation of weekend appetites without hesitation penny handed out a meatloaf a plum pudding bunches of radishes scrubbed carrots celery and a dozen fresh eggs...