Coppertop: The Queer Adventures of a Quaint Child

Coppertop: The Queer Adventures of a Quaint Child

But to-night the old bed felt less snuggly than usual, and she had a strange I-wonder-what-will-happen-next feeling, which would not allow her to sleep. It was such a night as witches love, when they fly about on broomsticks, and you feel sure-as-sure there is a black cat with green, staring eyes, hiding behind the burnt log in the chimney corner. Even the old colonial house, with its new slated roof and the strange terracotta gargoylesthat Coppertop was certain-sure had moved several times since they were first put up thereshook and shuddered in the bitter south wind which blew down from the ranges. [Pg 10]Celia Anagusta Sinclairfor that was her real namewas rather a lonely little girl at the best of times, as her father and mother were obliged to spend many months of the year in far-away India, and left their little ten-year-old daughter in the charge of Mrs. Grudge, the housekeeper; and it must be confessed that she and Miss Celia were not always the best of friends. Mrs. Grudge could not abide a nickname, and never used the term Coppertop by which the child was known to everyone else; she was of the old school, stern and strict, and had come out in the early days from Home. She could not understand these colonials, she would say, and Coppertops cheeks would glow and her auburn plaits would seem to grow even more coppery, for she was an Australian bred and born, and proud of it, too, and simply hated to be called one of these colonials. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 56516
Author: Gaze, Harold
Release Date: Feb 7, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English