Editha's BurglarWhen she discovers a burglar in the house, nine-year-old Editha persuades the thief to not awaken or harm her mother and to take her own possessions instead of those belonging to her father. |
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Editha's Burglar: A Story for Children (Classic Reprint) Frances Hodgson Burnett No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 48 - please do me another favor, wont you? Please let me slip quietly upstairs and bring down my own things instead. They will be so easy to carry away, and they are very valuable, and — and I will make you a present of them if you will not touch anything that belongs to papa. He is so fond of his things and, besides that, he is so good.
Page 31 - ... girl. She slipped out of bed so quietly that she scarcely stirred the clothes, and then slipped just as quietly out of the room and down the stairs. The filing had ceased, but she heard a sound of stealthy feet in the kitchen; and, though it must be confessed her heart beat rather faster than usual, she made her way to the kitchen and opened the door. Imagine the astonishment of that burglar when, on hearing the door open, he turned round and found himself looking at a slender little girl, in...
Page 23 - That made her mamma laugh, so that she forgot all about the burglars and began to get her color again, and it was not long before she was quite gay, and was singing a song she had heard at the opera, while Editha was helping her to dress. But that very night Editha met a burglar. Just before dinner, her papa came up from the city in a great hurry. He dashed up to the front door in a cab, and, jumping out, ran upstairs to mamma, who was sitting in the drawing-room, while Editha read aloud to her....
Page 19 - It was strange that the first thing she heard, when she went up to her mamma's room, was something about burglars. She was very very fond of her mamma, and very proud of her. She even tried to take care of her in her small way ; she never disturbed her when she was asleep, and she always helped her to dress, bringing her things to her, buttoning her little shoes and gloves, putting the perfume on her handkerchiefs, and holding her wraps until she wanted them. This morning, when she went into the...
Page 44 - Wales, honly for there bein' hobstacles in the way of it." "Oh!" said Editha; "you could n't be the Prince of Wales, you know. I meant would n't you rather be in some other profession ? My papa is an editor," she added. "How would you like to be an editor?" "Well," said the burglar, " hif yer par ud § change with me, or hif he chanced to know hany heditor with a roarin...
Page 36 - There haiiit no time to waste," she heard him mutter. " No, I suppose there is n't," she answered, " Mamma might wake and miss me. What are you going to burgle first ? " " You'd better go upstairs to yer mar," he said, rather sulkily. Editha thought deeply for a few seconds. " You ought n't to burgle anything," she said. " Of course you know that, but if you have really made up your mind to do it, I would like to show you the things you'd better take." " What, fer instance ? " said the burglar, with...
Page 20 - The burglars, Miss, that broke into Number Eighteen last night, and carried off all the silver, and the missus's jewelry." " If burglars ever do break in here," said mamma, " I hope none of us will hear them, though it would almost break my heart to have my things taken. If I should waken in the night, and find a burglar in my room, I think it would kill me, and I know I should scream, and then there is no knowing what they might do. If ever you think there is a burglar in the house, Nixie, whatever...
Page 28 - I'll go down and ask him to please be as quiet as he can," she said to herself, "and I'll tell him why." Certainly, this was a queer thing to think of doing, but I told you when I began my story that she was a queer little girl. She slipped out of bed so quietly that she scarcely stirred the clothes, and then slipped just as quietly out of the room and down the stairs. The filing had ceased, but she heard a sound of stealthy feet in the kitchen; and, though it must be confessed her heart beat rather...
Page 12 - Her papa wrote books himself, and was also the editor of a newspaper ; and, as he had a large library, Editha perhaps read more than was quite good for her. She lived in London ; and, as her mamma was very young and pretty, and went out a great deal, and her papa was so busy, and her governess only came in the morning, she was left to herself a good many hours in the day, and when she was left to herself, she spent the greater part of her time in the library reading her papa's big books, and even...
Page 56 - ... mamma dear," said Editha. She did not want to startle her just then, so she said nothing more, and she even said nothing all through the excitement that followed the discovery of the robbery, and indeed, said nothing until her papa came home, and then he wondered so at her pale face, and petted her so tenderly, and thought it so strange that nothing but her treasures had been taken from upstairs, that she could keep her secret no longer. "Papa," she cried out all at once in a trembling voice,...