E-text prepared by Al Haines
"Little night-dresses rustled."
DAYBREAK
A STORY FOR GIRLS
BY
FLORENCE A. SITWELL
LONDON
S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO.
9 PATERNOSTER ROW.
1888
Contents.
| CHAPTER | |
| I. | LIFE IN THE ORPHANAGE |
| II. | THE FLIGHT |
| III. | IN THE HOSPITAL |
| IV. | IN A THIRD-CLASS CARRIAGE |
| V. | BY THE SEA |
| VI. | CHRISTMAS DAY |
Illustrations.
"Little night-dresses rustled. . . . . . . Frontispiece
The Westminster clock tower.
St. Thomas' Hospital.
Kate and Frances.
DAYBREAK.
CHAPTER I.
LIFE IN THE ORPHANAGE.
Long before it was light, little feet were passing up and down thosegreat stone stairs, little voices whispered in the corridors, littlenight-dresses rustled by the superintendent's door. She did not thinkof sleeping, for though the moon still hung in the sky, it wasChristmas morning—five o'clock on Christmas morning at the Orphanage;and the little ones had everything their own way on Christmas Day. Soshe sat up in bed, with the candle lighted beside her, bending her headover a book
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