Lazy Lawrence Tarlton And The False Key

Author : Maria Edgeworth
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230071275
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Lazy Lawrence, Tarlton, and the False Key written by Maria Edgeworth and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...o'clock at night, Tarlton, accompanied by Loveit' and anotherboy, crept out. It was a moonlight night, and, after crossing the field, and climbing the gate directed by Lweit, who now resolved to go through the affair with spirit, they proceeded down the lane with-rash, yet fearful steps. At a distance Loveit saw the whitewashed cottage, and the appletree beside it: they quickened their pace, and with some difficulty scrambled through the hedgewhich fenced the garden, though not-without bejngscratched and torn by thebriers. Every thing was silent. Yet now and then at BVBPY rustling of the-leaves they started, and their hearts beatviolently. Once as Loveit was climbing the apple-tree, hethought he heard a door in the cottage open, and earnestly begged his companions to desist andreturn home. This, however, he could by no means persuade them to do, until they had filled theirpockets with apples; then, to his great joy, they returned, erept in at the staircase window, and each retired, as softly as possible, to his own apartment. ' '. Loveit slept in the room-with Hardy, whom he had left fast asleep, and whom he now was extremely afraid of wakening. All the apples were emptied out of Loveit's pockets, and lodged with Tarlton till the morning, for-fear the smell should betray the secret to Hardy. The room door was apt to creak, but it was opened with such precaution, that no noise could be heard, and Loveit found his friend as fast. asleep as when he left him. " Ah," said he to himself," how quietly he sleeps! I wish-I had been sleeping too."-The reproaches of Loveit's conscience, however, served no other purpose but to torment him; he had not suflicient strength of mind to be good. The very next...