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A Big Temptation, by
L. T. Meade and M. B. Manwell and Maggie Brown This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: A Big Temptation
Author: L. T. Meade M. B. Manwell Maggie Brown
Illustrator: Arthur A. Dixon
Release Date: May 14, 2008 [EBook #25467]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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A Big Temptation.
[Illustration: "What are you doing with that baby?"]
A Big Temptation
By
L. T. Meade,
And Other Stories
by
M. B. Manwell and Maggie Browne
Illustrated by
Arthur A. Dixon
LONDON: Printed in Bavaria. NEW YORK: ERNEST NISTER. 640. E. P. DUTTON & CO.
[Illustration]
A Big Temptation
By
L. T. Meade.
Netty stood on the doorstep of a rickety old house and nursed the baby. She was ten years old and had the perfectly white face of a child who had never felt any fresher air than that which blows in a London court.
It is true that the year before she had gone with her brother Ben into the country. The Ladies' Committee of the Holiday Fund had arranged the matter, and Netty and Ben had gone away. They had spent a whole delicious fortnight in a place where trees waved, and the air blew fresh, and ther