id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 23121 Holt, Emily Sarah Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago .txt text/plain 31544 2237 93 "I was coming, Grandmother," explains little Avice, "and Father Thomas "Open the door, Avice, quick!" said Agnes, as a rap came upon it. "Why, Uncle Dan, don't you know me?" said Avice. "Nay, who is to know thee, when thou comes so seldom?" said old Dan, little Bertha, who took after her peaceable father, and whom Avice had "And thou art all alone, my child," said Avice, stroking her hair. "Thou'll be good to the little maid, Avice," said he. can come down, thou knows, of a holy-day even, to hear thee. "Now, if Aunt Avice is _very_ good," said Bertha insinuatingly, and with "Hast thou heard, Bertha," said Avice, "that when I was young, I dwelt "Aunt," said Bertha softly, "how did you teach the little Lady to pray? "Then the little Lady knows it now, Aunt," said Bertha. "No man has that," said Father Thomas, "except the little children who ./cache/23121.txt ./txt/23121.txt