Homepage
Login
Profile
BookClubs
dmBox
Read this ebook for free! No credit card needed, absolutely nothing to pay.
Words: 63916 in 24 pages
This is an ebook sharing website. You can read the uploaded ebooks for free here. No credit cards needed, nothing to pay. If you want to own a digital copy of the ebook, or want to read offline with your favorite ebook-reader, then you can choose to buy and download the ebook.
Illustrator: H. Petherick
David's Little Lad, by L.T. Meade.
THIS IS THE STORY WITHIN THE STORY.
Yes, I, Gwladys, must write it down; the whole country has heard of it, the newspapers have been full of it, and from the highest to the lowest in the land, people have spoken of the noble deed done by a few Welsh miners. But much as the country knows, and glad and proud as the country is, I don't think she knows quite all--not exactly what mother and I know; she does not know the heart history of those ten days. This is the story within the other well-known story, which I want to write here.
Yes, I was feeling gloomy, and my first remark, after an interval of silence, was decidedly in keeping with my face and heart.
"Gwen," I said, "what is it to be buried alive?" Gwen, who was singing her charge to sleep to a lively Welsh air, neither heeded nor heard me.
"Gwen!" I repeated in a louder key.
"Men are false and oft ungrateful, Derry derry dando,"
sang Gwen, rocking the baby, as she sang, in the most dexterous manner.
Gwen had a beautiful voice, and I liked the old air, so I stayed my impatient question to listen.
"Maids are coy and oft deceitful, Derry derry dando, Few there are who love sincerely, Down a derry down. Say not so, I love thee dearly, Derry derry down down, Derry down down derry."
"None but thee torment and teaze me, Derry derry dando,"
Free books android app tbrJar TBR JAR Read Free books online gutenberg
(0)More posts by @FreeBooks
