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Holiday Romance

Charles Dickens

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. . .dn't,' said the colonel, pointing out the passage.

'And the word was?' said I.

'Cow - cow - coward,' hissed the pirate-colonel in my ear, and gave me back the note.

Feeling that I must for ever tread the earth a branded boy, - person I mean, - or that I must clear up my honour, I demanded to be tried by a court-martial. The colonel admitted my right to be tried. Some difficulty was found in composing the court, on account of the Emperor of France's aunt refusing to let him come out. He was to be the president. Ere yet we had appointed a substitute, he made his escape over the back-wall, and stood among us, a free monarch.

The court was held on the grass by the pond. I recognised, in a certain admiral among my judges, my deadliest foe. A cocoa-nut had given rise to language that I could not brook; but confiding in my innocence, and also in the knowledge that the President of the United States (who . . . Read More

Community Reviews

3.25⭐
PART I.
INTRODUCTORY ROMANCE PROM THE PEN OF WILLIAM TINKLING, ESQ. 3.5⭐

PART II.
ROMANCE. FROM THE PEN OF MISS ALICE RAINBIRD 3⭐

PART III.
ROMANCE. FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL. ROBIN REDFORTH 3.25⭐

PART IV.
ROMANCE FROM THE PEN OF MISS NETTIE ASHFORD 3.25⭐

Charles Dickens-Holiday romance
"-We will pretend-said Alice-that we are children; not that we are those grown-up people who won't help us out as they ought,and who understand us so badly."

A cute little short story told from the perspectives of four children ages 6-9. Each child makes up a story about being a sea captain, or living in a land without grownups, having a magic godmother, or simply playing with their friends. It's whimsical and cute, but has no story structure at all. The

Utterly charming short stories "written" by four children. The language and humour is so utterly Dickens, but the way in which they're written truly seem as if by children. The stories reflect the social standings of the day, wherein the boys have adventure and the girls have romance, but the boys a

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