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- Herausgeber: Hesba Stretton
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
Hesba Stretton was the pen name of Sarah Smith (27 July 1832 – 8 October 1911), an English writer of children's books. She concocted the name from the initials of herself and four surviving siblings and part of the name of a Shropshire village she visited, All Stretton, where her sister Anne owned a house, Caradoc Lodge (font:Wikipedia)
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No Place Like Home
Hesba Stretton
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - An Old Hovel
Chapter 2 - In the Woods
Chapter 3- Saturday and Sunday
Chapter 4 - The Magistrate’s Meeting
Chapter 5 - Turned Adrift
Chapter 6 - Five Years
Chapter 7 - Her Last Command
Chapter 8 - Going Home
Chapter 9 - A New Home
Chapter 1
An Old Hovel
There was not another home like it in all the parish of Broadmoor. It was a half-ruined hut, with walls bulging outwards, and a ragged roof of old thatch, overgrown with moss and yellow stonecrop. A rusty iron pipe in one corner served as a chimney to the flat hearth, which was the only fireplace within; and a very small lattice-window of greenish glass, with a bull’s-eye in each pane, let in but little of the summer sunshine, and hardly a gleam of the winter’s gloomy light. Only a few yards off, the hut could not be distinguished from the ruins of an old lime-kiln, near which it had been built to shelter the lime-burners during their intervals of work. There was but one room downstairs, with an earthen floor trodden hard by the trampling of heavy feet, whilst under the thatch there was a little loft, reached by a steep ladder and a square hole in the ceiling, where the roof came down on each side to the rough flooring, and nowhere was there height enough for even a short person to stand upright.
