《英语故事--德国》青少年科普教育书籍.pdf

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CONTENTS


THE BIRD ON ITS JOURNEY, Beatrice Harraden
KOOSJE: A STUDY OF DUTCH LIFE, John Strange
Winter
A DOG OF FLANDERS, Ouida
MARKHEIM, R. L. Stevenson
QUEEN TITA'S WAGER, William Black

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THE BIRD ON ITS JOURNEY

BY BEATRICE HARRADEN

It was about four in the afternoon when a young girl came
into the salon of the little hotel at C---- in Switzerland, and
drew her chair up to the fire.

"You are soaked through," said an elderly lady, who was
herself trying to get roasted. "You ought to lose no time in
changing your clothes."

"I have not anything to change," said the young girl,
laughing. "Oh, I shall soon be dry!"

"Have you lost all your luggage?" asked the lady,
sympathetically.

"No," said the young girl; "I had none to lose." And she
smiled a little mischievously, as though she knew by

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instinct that panion's sympathy would at once
degenerate into suspicion!

"I don't mean to say that I have not a knapsack," she
added,considerately. "I have walked a long distance--in
fact, from Z----."

"And where did you leave panions?" asked the
lady, with a touch of forgiveness in her voice.

"I am panions, just as I am without luggage,"
laughed the girl.

And then she opened the piano, and struck a few notes.
There was somthing caressing in the way in which she
touched the keys; whoever she was, she knew how to
make sweet music; sad music, too, full of that undefinable
longing, like the holding out of one's arms to one's friends
in the hopeless distance.


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The lady bending over the fire looked up at the little girl,
and forgot that she had brought neither friends nor
luggage with her. She hesitated for one moment, and then
she took the childish face between her hands a