The Image Breakers Book

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: F. A. Stokes Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Literary Criticism / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV SPRING came and went, and came again, till on one morning Leslie Ardent, waking in the blue-washed room in the Home for the Children of Missionaries, knew that her long year of drudgery was at an end, and that the vast machine for drilling little human units in a cold, mechanical round, would henceforth go on without her. For more than twelve months she had looked forward to this morning, hoarding her quarterly pittance of golden sovereigns till they seemed to spell the word freedom for her in bold capital letters. Drawing a letter from under her pillow, she read it for the last of many times, since to-day she should see the writer herself. It was from Rosalind, and she now almost knew by heart the loving invitation it contained, that she would join and work with her at Harvey Hargood's farm colony, for which she had entirely deserted the various and, she thought, less satisfactory, phases of social work in which she had engaged in London during the last year. A few hours later Leslie set out upon her journey, with joy in the thought that by nightfall she would reach Rosalind, in the little heaven on earth in which they were to live together. It did not trouble her that she had received no letters for the last fortnight. It was enough to her that her plans were known, and that she was lovingly expected. At the end of her day's travel it was a little disappointing not to be met at the station, but cheering herself ...Read More