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    Little Alice's Palace or, The Sunny Heart
    Little Alice's Palace or, The Sunny Heart
    Little Alice's Palace or, The Sunny Heart
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    Little Alice's Palace or, The Sunny Heart

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      Little Alice's Palace or, The Sunny Heart - Archive Classics

      Little Alice's Palace, by Anonymous

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      Title: Little Alice's Palace

      or, The Sunny Heart

      Author: Anonymous

      Release Date: August 16, 2006 [eBook #19063]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE ALICE'S PALACE***

      Transcribed from the 1872 T. Nelson and Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      LITTLE ALICE’S PALACE;

      or,

      THE SUNNY HEART.

      LONDON:

      T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW;

      EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.

      1872.

      CHAPTER I.

      The rain was pattering, pattering steadily upon the roof of a little brown cottage that stood alone by the country roadside.

      There had been a long and dreary winter, and now the bright spring was coming, with its buds and leaves and flowers, to gladden the earth, that had all the time seemed to be dead.

      As the shower came down, the little green blades of grass sprang up to catch the drops; and they seemed almost to laugh and sing, so full of joy were they when they could lift their heads from the dust.

      It was so much sweeter to be out once more from their prison-house and to exult with all God’s fair creation; so they bathed themselves in the falling shower, and made themselves fresh and clean; and nobody would ever have believed that they came out from their dark beds in the earth.

      Little Alice looked out of the windows of the brown cottage, and saw them nodding gaily to her as they were taking their bath; and so she smiled back again, and talked to them from her perch in the window-seat as if they were brothers and sisters, with eyes and ears to see and hear, and hearts to return her love.  Indeed, there was no one else to whom she could talk the livelong day.  No father, for he was dead; no living brothers and sisters; no mother at home, for they were very poor, and her mother must be gone at early dawn to labour for their food and clothing and shelter;—and so Alice had to make companions of the blades of grass that nodded at her through the drops.

      Oh, you beauties! said she gladly; and I know who made you, too, and what a great, good God he is to send you here—bright little creatures that you are.  How pleasant it will be down by the brook-side when the sun comes out, and you and I and the blue violets and the dandelions have our visiting-time together!  Never a little girl had such joy as I have!  And Alice put her face close to the pane, and looked up into the sky to thank her kind heavenly Father for sending her such blessings.  It seemed as if she could see him bending graciously down towards her, as her Sunday-school teacher had often represented him to her; and then she thought of Him who was upon the earth, and who took up little children in his arms and blessed them; and she put out her hands towards the heavens, saying earnestly, "Me, too,

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