[Gutenberg 18226] • My Young Days
- Authors
- Anonymous
- Tags
- children's stories , vacations -- juvenile fiction , families -- juvenile fiction , silhouettes , children and death -- juvenile fiction , christmas -- juvenile fiction , cousins -- juvenile fiction , inheritance and succession -- juvenile fiction
- Date
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.56 MB
- Lang
- en
Excerpt: "I want to go home " How many times in my life, I wonder, have these words come rushing up from the very bottom of my heart, tumbling everything out of the way, never listening to reason, never stopping for thought? How many times since that dreary afternoon in the great, big drawing-room at grandmamma's? And, oh dear me what miserable heartache comes before that fearful want Oh, grown-up people, don't you know how sour everything tastes, and how yellow everything looks, and how sick everything makes one, when one wants to go home?