The Forbidden Room; Or, "Mine Answer was My Deed"
by Phoebe Allen
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About This Book
NEVER within the memory of middle-aged Libbie, the dairymaid, had there been such a bustle of preparation within the walls of Gaybrook Farm, as on a certain June day, not many summers back.From early dawn—which means somewhere between three and four o’clock—old Mrs. Busson, the farmer’s wife, had been awake and astir.From the lumber-room in the attics, to the parlour, with its high-arched fire-place, filled in to-day with boughs of green and big bowls of June roses, and from the cheese-room, under the roof, to the brew-house in the yard below, every nook and corner in the roomy old farm had be...
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- THE FORBIDDEN ROOM: OR “MINE ANSWER WAS MY DEED.”
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, OR “MINE ANSWER WAS MY DEED.”
- CHAPTER I. “BOYS AND GIRLS, AND ALL SORTS.”
- CHAPTER II. “WHO’S WHO.”
- CHAPTER III. NOTES AND QUERIES.
- CHAPTER IV. “IN THE ROSY SUMMER WEATHER.”
- CHAPTER V. BOAR HUNTING.
- CHAPTER VI. “IN THE CUCKOO COPSE.”
- CHAPTER VII. COMING TO BLOWS.
- CHAPTER VIII Ogres.
- CHAPTER IX. “QUITE ’STRORDINARY FUN.”
- CHAPTER X. “YOU’VE NEVER BEEN QUARRELLING.”
- CHAPTER XI. “TARRY THE BAKING.”
- CHAPTER XII. “LIVE PURE, SPEAK TRUTH, RIGHT WRONG.”
- CHAPTER XIII. “NO, NO, IT IS NOT JUST.”
- CHAPTER XIV. “A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION.”
- CHAPTER XV. “FIRST CATCH YOUR BIRD.”
- CHAPTER XVI. “A COWARD’S TRICK.”
- CHAPTER XVII. EXECUTING A SENTENCE.
- CHAPTER XVIII. “WE’RE AWFULLY SORRY NOW.”
- CHAPTER XIX. “THEY HAVE NOT GONE YET.”
- CHAPTER XX. THE KING OF MUFFS.
- CHAPTER XXI. “A VERY SAD LITTLE BOY.”
- CHAPTER XXII. “NOW THESE BE SECRET THINGS.”
- CHAPTER XXIII. “TOUCH YOU!”
- CHAPTER XXIV. “HURRAH! HURRAH!”
- CHAPTER XXV. A TRAGICAL AFTERNOON.
- CHAPTER XXVI. “WHATEVER WILL THE MASTER SAY?”
- CHAPTER XXVII. “WHAT THE MASTER DID SAY.”
- CHAPTER XXVIII. “A PRETTY PICTURE.”
- CHAPTER XXIX. “WHERE’S GASTON?”
- CHAPTER XXX. “THE BESTEST BEST.”
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