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My New Home By: Mrs. Molesworth (1839-1921) |
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MY NEW HOME [Illustration: 'I'd like to know your sisters that are as little as me's
names.' p. 39.] Front.
[Illustration: Title Page]
MY NEW HOME by Mrs Molesworth Illustrated by
L Leslie Brooke Macmillan and Co
London: 1894
CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE WINDY GAP 1 CHAPTER II AT THE FOOT OF THE LADDER 15 CHAPTER III ONE AND SEVEN 28 CHAPTER IV NEW FRIENDS AND A PLAN 43 CHAPTER V A HAPPY DAY 58 CHAPTER VI 'WAVING VIEW' 71 CHAPTER VII THE BEGINNING OF TROUBLES 83 CHAPTER VIII TWO LETTERS 96 CHAPTER IX A GREAT CHANGE 111 CHAPTER X NO. 29 CHICHESTER SQUARE 125 CHAPTER XI AN ARRIVAL 139 CHAPTER XII A CATASTROPHE 153 CHAPTER XIII HARRY 168 CHAPTER XIV KEZIA'S COUNSEL 183 CHAPTER XV 'HAPPY EVER SINCE' 195
ILLUSTRATIONS
'I'd like to know your sisters that are as little as me's
names.' Frontispiece Grandmamma's chair was still waiting to be decorated,
so the next hour was spent very happily. 67 'I do wonder why they are so late'. 82 A nice looking oldish man came forward and bowed
respectfully to grandmamma. 126 It was the portrait of a young girl. 139 Up rushed two or three ... men, Cousin Cosmo the
first. 160 It was all uphill too. 173
CHAPTER I WINDY GAP
My name is Helena, and I am fourteen past. I have two other Christian
names; one of them is rather queer. It is 'Naomi.' I don't mind having
it, as I am never called by it, but I don't sign it often because it is
such an odd name. My third name is not uncommon. It is just 'Charlotte.'
So my whole name is 'Helena Charlotte Naomi Wingfield.' I have never been called by any short name, like 'Lena,' or 'Nellie.' I
think the reason must be that I am an only child. I have never had any
big brother to shout out 'Nell' all over the house, or dear baby sisters
who couldn't say 'Helena' properly. And what seems still sadder than
having no brothers or sisters, I have never had a mother that I could
remember. For mamma died when I was not much more than a year old, and
papa six months before that. But my history has not been as sad as you might think from this. I was
very happy indeed when I was quite a little child. Till I was nine years
old I really did not know what troubles were, for I lived with
grandmamma, and she made up to me for everything I had not got: we loved
each other so very dearly. I will tell you about our life. Grandmamma was not at all the sort of person most children think of when
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