Blind Girl, or, The Story of Little Vendla . —^-^s^fp^^^— T. NELSON AND SONSLondon. Edinburgh, and New York. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation The Blind Girl Ube Storp of Xittle DenMa. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SWEDISH TWINS, ETC. ETC. ; When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord -will take me xxvii. 10. LONDON T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW Edinburgh; and new york. 1888. €£fontcnts. BLIND, A STRAY LAMB, A NEW VISITOR, CHRISTMAS EVE, THE DINN
Blind Girl, or, The Story of Little Vendla . —^-^s^fp^^^— T. NELSON AND SONSLondon. Edinburgh, and New York. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation The Blind Girl Ube Storp of Xittle DenMa. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SWEDISH TWINS, ETC. ETC. ; When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord -will take me xxvii. 10. LONDON T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW Edinburgh; and new york. 1888. €£fontcnts. BLIND, A STRAY LAMB, A NEW VISITOR, CHRISTMAS EVE, THE DINNER, ... SOMETHING LOST AND SOMETHING FOUND, OUT OF THE PAST, PLEASANT WAITING, vendlas FIND, TWO YEARS LATER,GOING FORWARD,LEAVING HOME,PAPAS SECRET,STINAS GREAT CHANGE,NOT DEAD,THE NEW FIND,A BIRTHDAY, ... THE BLIND GIRL. CHAPTER WITHOUT, it was a white world,snow on the ground, frost on thetrees, and the sky with its cloudcurtains as white as the earthbeneath. Under the cottage win-dows there were a whir and a stir, where afeast had been spread for the sparrows, whichcame and went, and chattered and ate, as if itwere June instead of December. Within, there were hurry and flurry: thepastors wife was stepping hither and thither; 8 BLIND. sturdy Stina was doing enough for a pair ofstrong women; and the children were as busyas if, after all, the fate of the battle dependedon them. Yet this was nothing uncommon;just what happened every morning—a kind ofwhirlwind of putting up and putting in order,after which there were neatness and calm forthe rest of the day. The pastor must see a sick woman out in thedark forest, so away he had gone in the morn-ing twilight, away under the birches, and leftthe red cottage far, far behind him. Cottageit was, and but one story high, and hardly aparsonage in Sweden was smaller; a
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