The Children's Pilgrimage

By Meade, L. T.

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Title:	The Children's Pilgrimage
Author:	Meade, L. T.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?THREE ON A DOORSTEP.? In a poor part of London, but not in the very poorest part?two children sat on a certain autumn evening, side by side on a doorstep. The eldest might have been ten, the youngest eight. The eldest was a girl, the youngest a boy. Drawn up in front of these children, looking into their little faces with hungry, loving, pathetic eyes, lay a mongrel dog. The three were alone, for the street in which they sat was a cul?de?sac ?leading nowhere; and at this hour, on this Sunday evening, seemed quite deserted. The boy and girl were no East End waifs; they were clean; they looked respectable; and the doorstep which gave them a temporary resting?place belonged to no far?famed Stepney or Poplar. It stood in a little, old?fashioned, old?world court, back of Bloomsbury. They were a foreign?looking little pair?not in their dress, which was truly English in its clumsiness and want of picturesque coloring?but their faces were foreign. The contour was peculiar, the setting of the two pairs of eyes?un?Saxon. They sat very close together, a grave little couple. Presently the girl threw her arm round the boy?s neck, the boy laid his head on her shoulder. In this position those who watched could have traced motherly lines round this little girl?s firm mouth. She was a creature to defend and protect. The evening fell and the court grew dark, but the boy had found shelter on her breast, and the dog, coming close, laid his head on her lap.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Children's Pilgrimage, 1 -- L. T. Meade, 1 -- FIRST PART. ?LOOKING FOR THE GUIDE.?, 2 -- Chapter I. ?THREE ON A DOORSTEP.?, 2 -- Chapter II. A SOLEMN PROMISE, 5 -- Chapter III. ?NEVER A MOMENT TO GET READY.?, 10 -- Chapter IV. TOBY, 12 -- Chapter V. THE TIN BOX AND ITS TREASURE, 14 -- Chapter VI. MERCY BELL, 17 -- Chapter VII. A GUIDE TO THE PYRENEES, 19 -- Chapter VIII. ?THE UNION.?, 23 -- Chapter IX. ?THE ADVENT OF THE GUIDE.?, 26 -- Chapter X. ?TOPSY?TURVY.?, 28 -- Chapter XI. A MONTH TO PREPARE, 31 -- Chapter XII. THE CUPBOARD IN THE WALL, 33 -- Chapter XIII. ON THE ROAD TO THE CELESTIAL CITY, 36 -- Chapter XIV. WHAT JANE PARSONS KNEW, 38 -- Chapter XV. GOING ON PILGRIMAGE, 41 -- Chapter XVI. ?LYDIA'S RESOLVE.?, 44 -- SECOND PART. ?FINDING THE GUIDE.?, 45 -- Chapter I. ?LOOKING FOR THE OLD COURT.?, 45 -- Chapter II. ?A NIGHT'S LODGINGS.?, 47 -- Chapter III. IN THE CORNER BEHIND THE ORGAN, 51 -- Chapter IV. THE WOMAN WITH THE KINDEST FACE, 53 -- Chapter V. A HOUSE WITHOUT A DOOR, 55 -- Chapter VI. CECILE GIVES HER HEART, 57 -- Chapter VII. ?SUSIE.?, 61 -- Chapter VIII. THE TRIALS OF SECRECY, 64 -- Chapter IX. ?A LETTER.?, 65 -- Chapter X. STARTING ON THE GREAT JOURNEY, 67 -- THIRD PART. THE GREAT JOURNEY, 69 -- Chapter I. ON THE SAND HILL, 69 -- Chapter II. JOGRAPHY, 72 -- Chapter III. BLUE EYES AND GOLDEN HAIR, 74 -- Chapter IV. THE WORD THAT SETTLED JOE BARNES, 76 -- Chapter V. OUTSIDE CAEN, 79 -- Chapter VI. IN THE SNOW, 81 -- Chapter IV. TOBY AGAIN TO THE RESCUE, 84 -- Chapter VIII. A FARM IN NORMANDY, 85 -- Chapter IX. O MINE ENEMY!, 87 -- Chapter X. WARNED OF GOD IN A DREAM, 89 -- Chapter XI. THE FAUBOURG ST. G??, 91 -- Chapter XII. THE WINSEY FROCK, 94 -- Chapter XIII. A MIDNIGHT SEARCH, 97 -- Chapter XIV. A PLAN, 99 -- Chapter XV. AN ESCAPE, 102 -- Chapter XVI. CHILDREN'S ARCADIA, 103 -- Chapter XVII. MAURICE TAKES THE MANAGEMENT OF AFFAIRS, 104 -- The Children's Pilgrimage -- i