《Ellie; Or, the Human Comedy》是一本圖書，作者是Cooke, John Esten
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780217711548
- 作者：Cooke, John Esten
- 出版時間：2012年2月
- 頁數：140
- 定價：$ 25.78
內容簡介
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: like a frozen blade of steel. The old shawl had been some protection, but this was gone now, and the small form trembled and shook?shivering at every new attack of the freezing wind. The snn shone ...(展開全部) Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: like a frozen blade of steel. The old shawl had been some protection, but this was gone now, and the small form trembled and shook?shivering at every new attack of the freezing wind. The snn shone brightly, but seemed to be laughing ironically at the idea of any one's supposing that his beams had the least warmth in them?and the paving stones were freezing cold, and numbed the poor child's feet. She hastened on, however, and had nearly reached home, when she saw a crowd of vagabond boys at the corner of the street, and, in the midst of them, little Charley, who was observable at once from the great difference in his age and size. Ellie knew that many of these boys were of bad character, and stopped to call Charley to go home with her. CHAPTER III. INTRODUCES WIDE-AWAKE. At the sound of the child's voice, the eldest boy in the group turned round and stared at her carelessly. He was sixteen or seventeen years old, apparently, but might have been a year younger, for the houseless wanderers of city streets look old and knowing long before their childhood has gone by. This boy was clad almost handsomely? splendidly indeed, compared with his companions?and had a careless, reckless air, which had evidently procured him the chiefship among his comrades. In all their occupations, as newsboys, paper-carriers, errand-runners, andpetty thieves, Bean Sam or Sam Beau?or Wide-Awake, as the friends of
