Hide and Seek
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The girl named Mary -- they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael -- was a mystery. The Blyths adopted her from a kindly old woman connected to a traveling circus, but everyone knew she wasn't from circus folk. All they DID know about her identity was that she'd lost her hearing in an accident, and the proprietor of the circus had treated her horribly, and, and . . . and in her cache of secret personal private things, she owned one thing as precious to her as life a bracelet made of brown human hair with the initials MG tied into it. The Blyths ke...
Chapters (37)
- HIDE AND SEEK
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- CHARLES DICKENS,
- PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
- OPENING CHAPTER. A CHILD’S SUNDAY.
- BOOK I. THE HIDING.
- CHAPTER I. A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, AND A STRANGE CHARACTER.
- CHAPTER II. MR. BLYTH IN HIS STUDIO.
- CHAPTER III. MADONNA’S CHILDHOOD.
- CHAPTER IV. MADONNA’S MOTHER.
- CHAPTER V. MADONNA’S MISFORTUNE.
- CHAPTER VI. MADONNA GOES TO LONDON.
- CHAPTER VII. MADONNA IN HER NEW HOME.
- CHAPTER VIII. MENTOR AND TELEMACHUS.
- CHAPTER IX. THE TRIBULATIONS OF ZACK.
- CHAPTER X. MR. BLYTH’S DRAWING ACADEMY.
- CHAPTER XI. THE BREWING OF THE STORM.
- BOOK II. THE SEEKING.
- CHAPTER I. THE MAN WITH THE BLACK SKULL-CAP.
- CHAPTER II. THE PRODIGAL’S RETURN.
- CHAPTER III. THE SEARCH BEGUN.
- CHAPTER IV. FATE WORKS, WITH ZACK FOR AN INSTRUMENT.
- CHAPTER V. FATE WORKS, WITH MR. BLYTH FOR AN INSTRUMENT.
- CHAPTER VI. THE FINDING OF THE CLUE.
- CHAPTER VII. THE BOX OF LETTERS.
- CHAPTER VIII. JOANNA GRICE’S NARRATIVE.
- CHAPTER IX. MORE DISCOVERIES.
- CHAPTER X. THE SQUAW’S MIXTURE.
- CHAPTER XI. THE GARDEN DOOR.
- CHAPTER XII. THE HAIR BRACELET.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE SEARCH FOR ARTHUR CARR.
- CHAPTER XIV. MARY’S GRAVE.
- CHAPTER XV. THE DISCOVERY OF ARTHUR CARR.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE DAY OF RECKONING.
- CHAPTER XVII. MATTHEW GRICE’S REVENGE.
- CLOSING CHAPTER. A YEAR AND A HALF AFTERWARDS.
- NOTE TO CHAPTER VII.
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