E. Nesbit

Name: “G.H. and I.”
Author: E. Nesbit

“G.H. and I.” (1898)

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““G.H. and I.””, published in 1898, is a work by E. Nesbit. It explores elements such as Rosamund, Charlotte and Lynchurch.

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E. Nesbit, “G.H. and I.” (1898)

“ Rosamund, true to her promise, had breathed no word of her new friend; and Mrs. Bates, the woman who came in to do the housework and attend to Charlotte, had perhaps been bribed to secrecy: at any rate she said nothing. But as Charlotte grew better Rosamund’s long absences began to worry her. She asked herself “What is it the child runs after all day? Is she, too, going to leave off loving me?” And she sighed, and crept down to the beach to look for the child.
Far along the beach she saw Rosamund’s red fisher-cap—a bright spot of colour. ”

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E. Nesbit, “G.H. and I.” (1898)

“ Rosamund and Charlotte were a godsend to Lynchurch. They gave the village people something to talk about—something beyond tides and takes, the look of the sky, and the hardness of times nowadays. For in Lynchurch is little happening, and the letting of the Mill House was an event. That it should be let to an unmarried lady with one little girl, who was no relation, and who called the lady simply Charlotte, was an event still more startling ”

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E. Nesbit, “G.H. and I.” (1898)

“ Not ill-naturedly, though, for they are a kindly folk; and when it was found that Miss Haddon “paid her way,” and was not “stuck up” in the matter of allowing Rosamund to play on the beach with the fisher children, Lynchurch made up its mind to the situation, and went on talking.
Now the two had lived in the Mill House for a year—through the changing seasons: had known all the varying glories of the autumn sunsets over the marsh behind the black ruined mill; the strenuous gales of winter, when one is glad to hold on to the palings to keep one’s footing as one goes down the street ”

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E. Nesbit, “G.H. and I.” (1898)

“ Only yesterday I asked Ethel to tea,—she’s Marsh’s little girl: he’s one of the coastguards,—and Mrs. Bates said I wasn’t to have any one to tea till Charlotte was better.”
“That’s unlucky for me. However, let’s go down to the sea wall. Hullo! it’s raining again. You must run in.”
“Come to the mill,” said Rosamund. “You must run. Come along.”
They ran hand in hand across the green to the old mill, Rosamund’s favourite play-place. For long enough the mill had been past work; the boards were rotting away, and the great stones lay silent and idle. ”

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E. Nesbit, “G.H. and I.” (1898)

“ She tried to draw; but when you are eight years old drawing is dull work unless some kindly critic be at hand to praise your efforts. The fisher children, with whom at other times she loved to play, ceased to charm her now: Charlotte was ill, and Rosamund’s mood was one of deep melancholy ”

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E. Nesbit, “G.H. and I.” (1898)

“ The fence is very crooked, because the wind has been trying for years to blow it down, and the fence yields a little every year. But that only makes it the more comfortable to sit on when you are on the right side of it—though it is very awkward to climb over from the wrong side.
As Rosamund sat there, looking at the red sunlight behind the black mill, she heard a footstep on the road, and turned to look, It was a man in brown knickerbockers and jacket, with a beard. The beard looked red in the evening sunlight, and the man looked kind, she thought ”

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E. Nesbit, “G.H. and I.” (1898)

“ I have read your book about G.H. and I, very much, and I like it very much, and I should like to see you very much, and your little girl, becos I think you unnerstand about little girls, and why do not come and see me at my home. I live the Mill Hous at Lynchurch. Will you come to tea. Charlotte would say yes if I ask her, but she has got the Inflewhensir. ”

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E. Nesbit, “G.H. and I.” (1898)

“ The longest-living author of this work died in 1924, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 99 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. ”

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