THEIR DREAM HAD COME TRUE.
TWO LITTLE PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS
A Story of the City Beautiful
BY
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1916
Copyright, 1895, 1897, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM DRAWINGS BY REGINALD B. BIRCH
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- Their dream had come true, Frontispiece
- “Everything in the world,” said Robin, 15
- “Aunt Matilda,” she said, suddenly, 35
- Meg looked rather like a little witch, 67
- “Is this the train to Chicago?” said Robin, 79
- “You like a cup coffee?” she asked, 97
- “Now we are in Venice,” 111
- “Well, Jem!” she exclaimed, 121
- He was looking at her in an absent, miserable way, 127
- “To—to—the Fair?” he said, tremulously, 141
- “Take me with you,” 153
- “It’s a queer sight,” she said to John Holt, 195
TWO LITTLE PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS
I
The sun had set, and the shadows were deepeningin the big barn. The last red glow—thevery last bit which reached the corner the childrencalled the Straw Parlor—had died away,and Meg drew her knees up higher, so as to bringthe pages of her book nearer to her eyes as thetwilight deepened, and it became harder to read.It was her bitterest grievance that this was whatalways happened when she became most interestedand excited—the light began to fade away,and the shadows to fill all the corners and closein about her.
She frowned as it happened now—a fierce littlefrown which knitted her childish black brows asshe pored over her book, devouring the page,with the determination to seize on as much aswas possible. It was like running a desperaterace with the darkness.
She was a determined child, and no one wouldhave failed to guess as much who could havewatched her for a few moments as she sat on hercurious perch, her cheeks supported by her hands,her shock of straight black hair tumbling overher forehead.
The Straw Parlor was the top of a straw stackin Aunt Matilda’s barn. Robin had disco