Sherburne House (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Sherburne House They were having a circus of the grandest kind in Murray's Row. At least that was what the boys called it. Dell Murray had cried a little and gone into a "temper, " insisting it should be a matinée. Probably the affair would have ended in a row, and the children have lost their great pleasure, but for Tessy Murray, who was always a kind of peace-maker or umpire, and had such a sweet, persuasive way. "Let them have animals and standing on their heads and wild Indians, " said Tessy. "That'll be the circus part. And then we girls will have a reg'lar loveley matinay. And you shall do Cinderella. And maybe mother'll come out and see you." A little of the brogue came natural to Tessy, though the public school, that great machine with its almost Procrustean bed, snipped off the odds and ends of nationalities. But when cunning little Tessy wanted to be particularly coaxing, she had a soft, lingering way of stretching out "loveley." She carried the day for both sides. She coaxed Con to add matinée to the cards and begin it with a big M, though he was a little afraid the boys would laugh at him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.