Pattimore had lived in Mockery some twenty-five years, with Mrs. Topple, who afterwards became the schoolmistress, as his housekeeper. All that twenty-five years Mr. Pattimore had studied carefully the philosophy of names. And wishing to make this same study a practical he...
And even Pim, though he had seen such grandeur, and felt how high he was, was grateful to the Power that rules above Madder that he had been left to stand with his boots on, and to receive a welcome at the Chick household doorway by Miss Maud. Whatever high hat it was that...
Tasker's Gods-CHAPTER XXX : A GIRL’S DESPAIR CHAPTER XXX A GIRL’S DESPAIR MRS. ALLEN, the mother of Alice, lived three miles from Maidenbridge in one of a block of three cottages, near the high road that breaks the heath in two. Before Alice, much to her mother’s dismay, w...