The Little White Bird (Classic Reprint) Book

Sometimes the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: ' I shall be so pleased if you will come and see me,' and I always reply in some such words as these : 1 Dear madam, I decline.* And if David asks why I decline, I explain that it is because I have no desire to meet the woman.4 Come this time, father,' he urged lately, 4 for it is her birthday, and she is twenty-six,' which is so great an age to David, that I think he fears she cannot last much longer,* Twenty-six, is she, David ?' I replied. 4 Tell her I said she looks more.'I had my delicious dream that night. I dreamt that I too was twenty-six, which was a long time ago, and that I took train to a place called my home, whose whereabouts I see not in my waking hours ; and when I alighted at the station a dear lost love was waiting for me, and we went away together. She met me in no ecstasy of emotion, nor was I surprised to find her there; it was as if we had been married for years and pTable of Contents CHAPTER I; PAQB; david and i set forth upon a journey 1; CHAPTER II; the little nursery governess 9; CHAPTER III; her marriage, her clothes, her appetite, and an; inventory of her furniture 19; CHAPTER IV; a night-piece29; CHAPTER V; the fight for timothy37; CHAPTER VI; a shock46; CHAPTER VII; FAOE; the last of timothy51; CHAPTER VIII; the inconsiderate waiter55; CHAPTER IX; a confirmed spinster 67; CHAPTER X; sporting reflections76; CHAPTER XI; the runaway perambulator 78; CHAPTER XII; the pleasantest club in london 89; CHAPTER XIII the grand tour of the gardens 98; CHAPTER XIV; peter pan109; CHAPTER XV; PACE; the thrush's nest 120; CHAPTER XVI; lock-out time131; CHAPTER XVII; the little house 145; CHAPTER XVIII peter's goat164; CHAPTER XIX; an interloper175; CHAPTER XX; david and porthos compared 180; CHAPTER XXI; william paters on 188; CHAPTER XXII joey 198; CHAPTER XXIII pilkxnoton's208;Read More