Enterprising Youth: Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Literature (Childrens Literature and Culture)

You know that, deep down in your unconscious. They talked eagerly about the visit to the island next day.

At once his mother appeared in the doorway with a platter of meat and close behind her his sister with a bowl of potatoes piled high. Strenuous physical action dissipated her blind terror somewhat and before she had reached the ruin, her mind was clear, her reasoning faculties alert, though her limbs trembled from her efforts.