The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit Ch 2 Free Kids Audiobook Children's Online Library

The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit Ch 2 Free Kids Audiobook Children's Online Library

Danish - Konen med æggene (en gammel historie sat i rim) H.C. Andersen (1805-1875) Public Domain

Danish - Konen med æggene (en gammel historie sat i rim) H.C. Andersen (1805-1875) Public Domain

Czech - Smrt kmotřenka Karel Jaromír Erben (1811-1870) key words: Slavic fairytale Public Domain

Czech - Smrt kmotřenka Karel Jaromír Erben (1811-1870) key words: Slavic fairytale Public Domain

The Boarded Up House by Augusta Huiell Seaman Ch 17 In Which All Mysteries Are Solved Final Chapter.

chapter 17 of the boarded up house this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by patty cunningham the boarded up house by augusta hewell seaman chapter 17 in which all mysteries are solved at last the two on the staircase heard footsteps approaching the door and a pleasant voice called out where are you both little ladies will you not come and join us i think we must have some things to be explained they came forward a little timidly and their latest visitor held out a hand to each you wonderful too he exclaimed do you realize that had it not been for you this would never have happened my mother and i owe you a debt of gratitude beyond all expressing come and join us now and we will solve the riddles which i'm sure are puzzling us all he led them over to the sofa and placed them beside his mother never was a change more remarkable than that which had come upon mrs collingwood her face far from being one of the saddest they had ever seen had grown fairly radiant she looked younger too ten years seemed suddenly to have dropped from her shoulders her brown eyes flashed with something of their former fire and she smiled down at them as only the lovely lady of the portrait had ever smiled there was no difficulty now in identifying her with that picture oh please began joyce breathlessly won't you tell us mr collingwood how you come to be not dead and why you gave another name at the door and and he laughed i'll tell you all that he interrupted if you'll tell me who joyce kenway is why i am said joyce in surprise didn't you guess it how could i he answered i never supposed it was a girl who sent me that note i did not even feel sure that the name was not assumed to hide an identity in fact i did not know what to think but i'll come to all that in its proper place i'm sure you are all anxious to hear the strange story i have to tell in the first place as it's easy to guess i wasn't killed at the battle of shiloh at all but so very seriously wounded that i came to be so reported as i lay on the field with scores of others after the battle a poor fellow near me who had been terribly hurt was moaning and tossing my own wound did not hamper me so much at the time so i crawled over to him and tried to make him as comfortable as possible till a surgeon should arrive presently he began to shiver so with some sort of a chill that i took off my coat and wrapped it around him the coat had some of my personal papers in it but i did not think of that at the time when the surgeons did arrive we were removed to different army hospitals and i never saw the man again but he probably died very soon after and evidently finding my name on him in the confusion it was reported that i was dead well when i saw the notice of my own death in the paper my first impulse was to deny it at once but my second thought was to let it pass after all i believed that i had broken forever with my home in the year that had elapsed i had never ceased to hope that the note i left would soften my mother's feelings toward me and that at least she would send me word that i was forgiven but the word had never come and hope was now quite dead perhaps it would be kinder to allow her to think i was no more having died in the cause i thought right the more i thought it over the more i became convinced that this was the wisest course therefore i let the report stand i was quite unknown where i was and i decided as soon as i was able to make my way out west and live out my life far from the scenes of so much unhappiness my wound disqualified me from further army service and gave me a great deal of trouble even after i was dismissed from the hospital nevertheless i worked my way to the far west partly on foot and partly in the slow stage coaches of that period...

The Boarded Up House by Augusta Huiell Seaman Ch 17 In Which All Mysteries Are Solved Final Chapter.

chapter 17 of the boarded up house this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by patty cunningham the boarded up house by augusta hewell seaman chapter 17 in which all mysteries are solved at last the two on the staircase heard footsteps approaching the door and a pleasant voice called out where are you both little ladies will you not come and join us i think we must have some things to be explained they came forward a little timidly and their latest visitor held out a hand to each you wonderful too he exclaimed do you realize that had it not been for you this would never have happened my mother and i owe you a debt of gratitude beyond all expressing come and join us now and we will solve the riddles which i'm sure are puzzling us all he led them over to the sofa and placed them beside his mother never was a change more remarkable than that which had come upon mrs collingwood her face far from being one of the saddest they had ever seen had grown fairly radiant she looked younger too ten years seemed suddenly to have dropped from her shoulders her brown eyes flashed with something of their former fire and she smiled down at them as only the lovely lady of the portrait had ever smiled there was no difficulty now in identifying her with that picture oh please began joyce breathlessly won't you tell us mr collingwood how you come to be not dead and why you gave another name at the door and and he laughed i'll tell you all that he interrupted if you'll tell me who joyce kenway is why i am said joyce in surprise didn't you guess it how could i he answered i never supposed it was a girl who sent me that note i did not even feel sure that the name was not assumed to hide an identity in fact i did not know what to think but i'll come to all that in its proper place i'm sure you are all anxious to hear the strange story i have to tell in the first place as it's easy to guess i wasn't killed at the battle of shiloh at all but so very seriously wounded that i came to be so reported as i lay on the field with scores of others after the battle a poor fellow near me who had been terribly hurt was moaning and tossing my own wound did not hamper me so much at the time so i crawled over to him and tried to make him as comfortable as possible till a surgeon should arrive presently he began to shiver so with some sort of a chill that i took off my coat and wrapped it around him the coat had some of my personal papers in it but i did not think of that at the time when the surgeons did arrive we were removed to different army hospitals and i never saw the man again but he probably died very soon after and evidently finding my name on him in the confusion it was reported that i was dead well when i saw the notice of my own death in the paper my first impulse was to deny it at once but my second thought was to let it pass after all i believed that i had broken forever with my home in the year that had elapsed i had never ceased to hope that the note i left would soften my mother's feelings toward me and that at least she would send me word that i was forgiven but the word had never come and hope was now quite dead perhaps it would be kinder to allow her to think i was no more having died in the cause i thought right the more i thought it over the more i became convinced that this was the wisest course therefore i let the report stand i was quite unknown where i was and i decided as soon as i was able to make my way out west and live out my life far from the scenes of so much unhappiness my wound disqualified me from further army service and gave me a great deal of trouble even after i was dismissed from the hospital nevertheless i worked my way to the far west partly on foot and partly in the slow stage coaches of that period...

The Boarded Up House by Augusta Huiell Seaman Ch 16 Joyce Explains Free Teens Audiobook.
chapter 16 of the boarded up house this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by amanda friday the boarded up house by augusta hewell seaman chapter 16 joyce explains joyce will you just oblige me by pinching me real hard i'm perfectly certain i'm not awake joyce pinched obligingly and with vigor thereby eliciting from her companion a muffled squeak the two girls were sitting on the lower step of the staircase in the dark hallway they had been sitting there for a long long while it was joyce who had pulled cynthia away from staring wide-eyed at the spectacle of that marvelous reunion and they had slipped out into the hall unobserved in order that the two in the drawing room might have this wonderful moment to themselves neither of them had yet sufficiently recovered from her amazement to be quite coherent i can't make anything out of it began cynthia slowly at last he's dead evidently he isn't replied joyce or he wouldn't be here but oh it's true then i hardly dared to hope it would be so i'm so glad i did it cynthia turned on her joyce kenway what are you talking about it sounds as though you were going crazy oh of course you don't understand retorted joyce and it's your own fault too i'd have been glad enough to explain and talk it over with you only you were so hateful that i just went home instead and thought it out myself well i may be stupid remark cynthia but for the life of me i can't make any sense out of what you're saying listen then said joyce and i'll explain it all you remember last night how i sat reading the newspaper first just to tease you and afterward i really got interested in it well i happened to be glancing over the news about people who had just landed here from abroad when a little paragraph caught my eye i can't remember the exact words but it was something like this that among the passengers just arrived in new york on the campania was mr fairfax collingwood who was interested in western and australian gold mines he had not been here in the east for nearly 40 years and it said how astounded he was at the remarkable changes that had taken place during his long absence then it went on to say that he was staying at the waldorf astoria for only a few days as he was just here on some important business and was then going to cross the continent on his way back to australia well you'd better believe that i nearly jumped out of my skin at the name fairfax collingwood it's an unusual one and it didn't seem possible that more than one person could have it though of course it might be a distant connection of the same family and then two our fairfax collingwood was dead i didn't know what to think i tried to get your attention but you were still as mad as you could be so i made up my mind i'd go home and puzzle over it by myself and i took the paper with me after i got home i sat and thought and thought and all of a sudden it occurred to me that perhaps he wasn't killed in the war after all that there'd been some mistake i've read that such things did happen but if it were so i couldn't imagine why he didn't go and make it up with his mother afterward it seemed very strange and then this explanation dawned on me he had left that note for his mother and perhaps thought that if she really intended to forgive him she'd have made some effort to get word to him in the year that elapsed before he was reported killed then as she never did he may have concluded that it was all useless and hopeless and he'd better let the report stand and he'd disappear and never come back you see that article said he hadn't been east here for 40 years and when i thought this out an idea popped into my head if what i'd imagined was true it didn't seem right to let him go on thinking that when i knew that his mother never saw that...

The Boarded Up House by Augusta Huiell Seaman Ch 16 Joyce Explains Free Teens Audiobook.
chapter 16 of the boarded up house this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by amanda friday the boarded up house by augusta hewell seaman chapter 16 joyce explains joyce will you just oblige me by pinching me real hard i'm perfectly certain i'm not awake joyce pinched obligingly and with vigor thereby eliciting from her companion a muffled squeak the two girls were sitting on the lower step of the staircase in the dark hallway they had been sitting there for a long long while it was joyce who had pulled cynthia away from staring wide-eyed at the spectacle of that marvelous reunion and they had slipped out into the hall unobserved in order that the two in the drawing room might have this wonderful moment to themselves neither of them had yet sufficiently recovered from her amazement to be quite coherent i can't make anything out of it began cynthia slowly at last he's dead evidently he isn't replied joyce or he wouldn't be here but oh it's true then i hardly dared to hope it would be so i'm so glad i did it cynthia turned on her joyce kenway what are you talking about it sounds as though you were going crazy oh of course you don't understand retorted joyce and it's your own fault too i'd have been glad enough to explain and talk it over with you only you were so hateful that i just went home instead and thought it out myself well i may be stupid remark cynthia but for the life of me i can't make any sense out of what you're saying listen then said joyce and i'll explain it all you remember last night how i sat reading the newspaper first just to tease you and afterward i really got interested in it well i happened to be glancing over the news about people who had just landed here from abroad when a little paragraph caught my eye i can't remember the exact words but it was something like this that among the passengers just arrived in new york on the campania was mr fairfax collingwood who was interested in western and australian gold mines he had not been here in the east for nearly 40 years and it said how astounded he was at the remarkable changes that had taken place during his long absence then it went on to say that he was staying at the waldorf astoria for only a few days as he was just here on some important business and was then going to cross the continent on his way back to australia well you'd better believe that i nearly jumped out of my skin at the name fairfax collingwood it's an unusual one and it didn't seem possible that more than one person could have it though of course it might be a distant connection of the same family and then two our fairfax collingwood was dead i didn't know what to think i tried to get your attention but you were still as mad as you could be so i made up my mind i'd go home and puzzle over it by myself and i took the paper with me after i got home i sat and thought and thought and all of a sudden it occurred to me that perhaps he wasn't killed in the war after all that there'd been some mistake i've read that such things did happen but if it were so i couldn't imagine why he didn't go and make it up with his mother afterward it seemed very strange and then this explanation dawned on me he had left that note for his mother and perhaps thought that if she really intended to forgive him she'd have made some effort to get word to him in the year that elapsed before he was reported killed then as she never did he may have concluded that it was all useless and hopeless and he'd better let the report stand and he'd disappear and never come back you see that article said he hadn't been east here for 40 years and when i thought this out an idea popped into my head if what i'd imagined was true it didn't seem right to let him go on thinking that when i knew that his mother never saw that...