Five Children and It 五个孩子和它

FIVE CHILDREN AND IT 1 FIVE CHILDREN AND IT E. NESBIT TO JOHN BLAND 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org FIVE CHILDREN AND IT 2 CHAPTER 1 BEAUTIFUL AS THE DAY The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and to say, 'Aren't we nearly there?' And every time they passed a house, which was not very often, they all said, 'Oh, is THIS it?' But it never was, till they reached the very top of the hill, just past the chalk-quarry and before you come to the gravel-pit. And then there was a white house with a green garden and an orchard beyond, and mother said, 'Here we are!' 'How white the house is,' said Robert. 'And look at the roses,' said Anthea. 'And the plums,' said Jane. 'It is rather decent,' Cyril admitted. The Baby said, 'Wanty go walky'; and the fly stopped with a last rattle and jolt. Everyone got its legs kicked or its feet trodden on in the scramble to get out of the carriage that very minute, but no one seemed to mind. Mother, curiously enough, was in no hurry to get out; and even when she had ......