 ... go home. Then came the terrible part. By the time we were at our own door, it was dusk, and we went up the steps in the dark; but in the kitchen it was bright sunshine. My mother was standing at the dresser, breaking sugar; and she lifted me up, and...  The Argosy - Page 201edited by - 1891Full view - About this book
 | 1891 - 850 pages
...usually settling on ! the figure of an old Welsh landlord, a j small man with a brown wig, whom he had j occasionally visited with his father, and who, to...looking back from her strongminded maturity to that vividly remembered childish dream, and utterly unable to understand " what the fright was about." Children,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 468 pages
...dresser, breaking sugar ; and she lifted me up, and set me in the sun, and gave me a bit of sugar. Such was the dream which froze me with horror ! Who shall say why ? — But my panics were really unaccoun table. They were a matter of pure sensation, without any intellectual... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 630 pages
...dresser, breaking sugar ; and she lifted mo up, and set me in the sun, and gave me a bit of sugar. Such was the dream which froze me with horror ! Who shall say why? But my panics were really unaccountable. They were a matter_of _£ure sensation^ without any intellectual... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 632 pages
...dresser, breaking sugar ; and she lifted me up, and set me in the sun, and gave me a bit of sugar. j ~! Such was the dream which froze me with horror ! Who shall say whyt But my panics were really unaccountable. They were a matter of pure sensation, without any intellectual... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 2006 - 748 pages
...the dresser, breaking sugar; and she lifted me up, and set me in the sun, and gave me a bit of sugar. Such was the dream which froze me with horror! Who shall say why?—But my panics were really unaccountable. They were a matter of pure sensation, without any intellectual... | |
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