Anna of the Five Towns - Classic Reprint Author:Arnold Bennett J: THE KINDLING OF LOVE THE yard was all silent and empty under the burning afternoon heat, which had made its asphalt springy Like turf, when suddenly the children threw themselves out of the great doors at either end of the Sundayschool- boys from the right, girls from the left-in two howling, impetuous streams, that widened, eddied, interming... more »led, and formed backwaters until the whole quadrangle was full of clamour and movement. J..Iany of tlle scholars carried prize-books bound in vivid tints, and proudly exhibited these volumes to their companions and to the teachers, wllo, tall, languid, and condescending, soon began to appear amid the restless throng. Near the left-hand door a. little girl of twelve years, dressed in a. cream-coloured frock, with a wide and heavy straw hat, stood quietly kicking her foal-like legs against the wall. She was one of those who had won a prize, and once or twice she took the treasure from under her arm to glance at its frontispiece
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THE KINDLING 0F LoVE 1; Il TIlE MISER'S DAUGHTER ? ? ? 20; III TUE BlRTlIDAY, ? ? ? 31; IV A VISIT, ? ? ? ? ? ? 63; V THE REVIV ALt ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 66; VI WILLIE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? '19; VII THE SEWING MEETING, ? ? ? ? ? ? 102; VIII o~ TUE BANK, ? ? ? ? ? ? 128; IX TIlE TREAT, ? ? · 162; X THE ISLE ? ? ? ? ? · 175; XI TOE DO~FALL, ? ? ? ? ? ? 217; XII AT THE PRIORY, ? ? ? 2lit>; · XIII THE BAZAAR, ? ? ? ? 2B2; XIV END OF A SmPLE SOUL ? ? ? ? ? 295
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