Presently she said, Dears, when you say your prayers, I think you might ask God to show His pity upon all prisoners and captives. To show His pity, Bobbie repeated slowly, upon all prisoners and capti...
Peter was not on the railings either, as usual. He was standing in front of them in an attitude like that of a show-man showing off the animals in a menagerie, or of the kind clergyman when he points...
Only three people got out of the 11.54. The first was a countryman with two baskety boxes full of live chickens who stuck their russet heads out anxiously through the wicker bars; the second was Miss...
My boy, you’ve been like a son to me, but now it’s time you got married and had sons of your own. Is there any girl you’d like to marry?’ ‘No,’ said Sep, ‘I never did care much for girls.’ The old lor...
It seemed to her that the only way would be to climb on to the engine and pull at their coats. The step was high, but she got her knee on it, and clambered into the cab; she stumbled and fell on hands...
If you say that the China Cat might have lost its ear-tips in battle you are the kind of person who makes difficulties, and you may be quite sure that the kind of splendid magics that happened to Tav...
I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year
I would kiss you on every one of your thousand spears,' she said, 'to give you what you wish.''Kiss me once,' it said, 'where my fur is soft. That is all I wish, and enough to live and die for.
I see. Certainly. It would be nice to put his name on the buns with pink sugar, wouldn't it? Perks, said Peter, it's not a pretty name. His other name's Albert, said Phyllis; I asked him once. We migh...
Don't you know a Sand-fairy when you see one? It looked so grieved and hurt that Jane hastened to say, Of course I see you are, now. It's quite plain now one comes to look at you. You came to look at...
But I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.
Boys and girls are only little men and women. And WE are much harder and hardier than they are-- (Peter liked the we. Perhaps the Doctor had known he would.)--and much stronger, and things that hurt T...
And out of a first-class carriage a hand waved back. A quite clean hand. It held a newspaper. It was the old gentleman's hand. After this it became the custom for waves to be exchanged between the chi...
And now trees arched overhead, and the banks of the road were high and bushy. The adventurers had long since ceased to blow their horns. It was too tiring to go on doing that, when there was no one to...
All three had been TAUGHT French at school. How deeply they now wished that they had LEARNED it!
Albert, you are more highly privileged than ever I was. No one ever made me a nice dungeon when I was your age. I think I had better leave you where you are.
After the coals? repeated Phyllis. Stop a minute—my bootlace is undone again. It always IS undone again, said Peter, and the Station Master was more of a gentleman than you'll ever be, Phil—throwing c...
When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is...
Trees are all different, as you know, and I am sure some tiresome person must have told you that there are no two blades of grass exactly alike. But in streets, where the blades of grass don't grow, e...
Roberta was the eldest. Of course, Mothers never have favourites, but if their Mother HAD had a favourite, it might have been Roberta. Next came Peter, who wished to be an Engineer when he grew up; an...