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    Daybreak: A Story for Girls
    Daybreak: A Story for Girls
    Daybreak: A Story for Girls
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    Daybreak: A Story for Girls

    By Florence Alice Sitwell

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Daybreak: A Story for Girls

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      Daybreak - Florence Alice Sitwell

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      Title: Daybreak

      A Story for Girls

      Author: Florence A. Sitwell

      Release Date: January 3, 2007 [eBook #20260]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DAYBREAK***

      E-text prepared by Al Haines

      Little night-dresses rustled.

      DAYBREAK

      A STORY FOR GIRLS

      BY

      FLORENCE A. SITWELL

      LONDON

      S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO.

      9 PATERNOSTER ROW.

      1888

      Contents.

      Illustrations.

      "Little night-dresses rustled. . . . . . . Frontispiece

      The Westminster clock tower.

      St. Thomas' Hospital.

      Kate and Frances.

      DAYBREAK.

      CHAPTER I.

      LIFE IN THE ORPHANAGE.

      Long before it was light, little feet were passing up and down those great stone stairs, little voices whispered in the corridors, little night-dresses rustled by the superintendent's door. She did not think of sleeping, for though the moon still hung in the sky, it was Christmas morning—five o'clock on Christmas morning at the Orphanage; and the little ones had everything their own way on Christmas Day. So she sat up in bed, with the candle lighted beside her, bending her head over a book she held in her hand, and often smiling to herself as she listened to the sounds that revealed the children's joy. She was a grey-headed woman, with a face that might have been stern if the lines about the mouth had not been so gentle; a face, too, that was care-worn, yet full of peace. A tall night-cap surmounting her silvery grey hair gave her a quaint, even laughable appearance; but the orphan children reverenced the nightcap because they loved the head that, night after night, bent over them as a mother's might have done.

      She was reading Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, and only laid the book aside as the little feet gathered outside her door, and clear, passionless voices blended in a Christmas hymn.

      Then the sounds died away again in the distance, and she was left to follow in her thoughts.

      Upstairs to the great dormitory the children crept; trying to be as noiseless as the fairies who filled their Christmas stockings. Maggie, being the gentlest, led the way, and was trusted to open creaking doors; the younger ones formed the centre of the little army, and behind them all marched Jane, the trusted Jane, who, though she had been one year only at the Orphanage, had won the confidence of all. She was the daughter of honest, industrious, working people, and had not the sad tendencies to slippery conduct which many of the little ones possessed. She was true in word and in deed; and no one could measure the good of such an example amongst the children.

      The full moonlight was shining in the dormitory on many a little empty bed. Who could resist a pillow-fight? The sub-matron was up already trimming an extra beautiful bonnet to wear on this festive day. Jane remonstrated, but was met with a wrathful reminder that on Christmas Day Mother Agnes let

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