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Susan Warner

OpportunitiesOpportunities CHAPTER I It was the morning after that Sunday when Matilda had been baptized. The girls came down to prepare breakfast as usual; Maria in a very unsettled humour. She was cloudy and captious to a degree that Matilda could not understand. The kitchen was hot; the butter...

DianaSusan Warner Diana CHAPTER I. THE SEWING SOCIETY I am thinking of a little brown house, somewhere in the wilds of New England. I wish I could make my readers see it as it was, one June afternoon some years ago. Not for anything very remarkable about it; there are thousands of such houses sca...

The Wide, Wide WorldWarner Susan The Wide, Wide World CHAPTER I Enjoy the spring of love and youth,To some good angel leave the rest,For time will teach thee soon the truth,"There are no birds in last year's nest." – Longfellow."Mamma, what was that I heard papa saying to you this morning about h...

NobodyWarner Susan Nobody CHAPTER I WHO IS SHE? "Tom, who was that girl you were so taken with last night?""Wasn't particularly taken last night with anybody."Which practical falsehood the gentleman escaped from by a mentalreservation, saying to himself that it was not last night that he was"take...

TradingTrading CHAPTER I Christmas day was grey with clouds; on the roofs of the city and in the streets the sun never shone all day. People called it cold. Sarah Staples found it so on her crossing. Inside Mrs. Lloyd's front-door, however, it seemed to Matilda to be nothing but sunshine. She had...

A Red WallflowerWarner Susan A Red Wallflower CHAPTER I AFTER DANDELIONS It is now a good many years ago that an English family came over from the old country and established itself in one of the small villages that are scattered along the shore of Connecticut. Why they came was not clearly under...

What She CouldWhat She Could CHAPTER I "Girls, there's a Band!""A what?""A Band – in the Sunday-School.""I am sure there is a careless girl in the house," put in another speaker. "Go and wipe your feet, Maria; look at the snow you have brought in.""But, mamma – ""Go and get rid of that snow befor...

The Letter of CreditWarner Susan The Letter of Credit CHAPTER I. THE LETTER "Mother, I wonder how people do, when they are going to write a book?""Do?" repeated her mother."Yes. I wonder how they begin.""I suppose they have something to tell; and then they tell it," said simple Mrs. Carpenter."No...

The Old Helmet. Volume IWarner Susan The Old Helmet, Volume I CHAPTER I. THE RUINS "She look'd and saw that all was ruinous,Here stood a shattered archway plumed with fern;And here had fall'n a great part of a tower,Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff,And like a crag was gay with wildi...

The House in TownThe House in Town CHAPTER I "Oh Norton! Oh Norton! do you know what has happened?"Matilda had left the study and rushed out into the dining-room to tell her news, if indeed it were news to Norton. She had heard his step. Norton seemed in a preoccupied state of mind."Yes!" he said...