Midsummer A Story for Boys and Girls Author:Katharine Adams General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: The Macmillan Company Subjects: History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access... more » to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER 4 Making Friends Sven went off with Bjorn after supper that evening and Audrey had coffee alone with her aunt and grandfather on the balcony which opened from the library. The old man was well wrapped in shawls and his daughter tucked a fur rug about his feet. He fretted a good deal about the air being too keen and kept them busy adjusting cushions and screens until things were just to his liking. Tante served coffee and with it they had freshly baked coffee bread; it had an odd flavor of annis seed which Audrey was trying to become accustomed to. She liked having coffee out there with her aunt and grandfather. Audrey was fifteen but she was still young enough to enjoy doing grown up things. Her aunt made her coffee quite weak by putting in plenty of cream, it was sweet and fragrant and she drank it each evening out of a red and gold cup with a red and gold dragon on one side. It had belonged to her mother and Tante Greta had given it to her. "Tell me, Tante Greta, tell me about when you and mother were young, you must have had splendidtimes, running all around here, I wish I had a sister, Sven is all right of course, but he doesn't like to pretend or make up plays, he just wants to do something all the time and while he's doing it he never thinks of anything else. Why, when he was collecting stamps it was awful, he just wouldn't talk of anything else. It's sail boats now. Tell me, Tante, did you and mother have great fun when you were young?" Her aunt glanced a little uneasily towards the old count. "Your grandfather do...« less