[Milly and Olly by Mrs. Humphry Ward]@TWC D-Link book
Milly and Olly

CHAPTER I
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And at Wigan all the trees grow on one side as if some one had come and given them a push in the night; and at Lancaster there's another old castle, a very famous one, only now they have turned it into a prison, and people are shut up inside it.
Then a little way after Lancaster you'll begin to see some mountains, far, far away, but first you'll see something else--just a little bit of blue sea, with mountains on the other side of it.

And then will come Windermere, where we shall get out and drive in a carriage.

And we shall drive right into the mountains, Olly, till they stand up all round us with their dear kind old faces that mother has loved ever since she was a baby." The children looked up wonderingly at their mother, and they saw her face shining and her eyes as bright as theirs, as if she too was a child going out for a holiday.
"Oh! And, mother," said Olly, "you'll let us take Spot.

She can go in my box." Now Spot was the white kitten, so Milly and mother began to laugh.
"Suppose you go and ask Spot first, whether she'd like it, Olly," said Mrs.Norton, patting his sunburnt little face..


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