AcreSoft Story Classic: 🌷 Kids Educational and Bedtime Stories for Children to Adults, in English

The boys took up their oars again, pushed out a little from the shore, and rowed up stream for a short distance, then turned and went down for a mile or more, keeping out of the main current all the time, according to promise. Elsie felt a trifle timid at first, and a little troubled lest she had not done quite right in yielding to her cousins' persuasions; but gradually these... #story #kidsstory...

Wallace Ormsby was not behind his wife in admiration and liking for Frank Osborne; he enjoyed his sermons, too, and was desirous that Mr. Dinsmore should hear the young preacher, and make his acquaintance; therefore had persuaded him and Mr. Lord to an exchange of pulpits on the morrow, which was Sunday, and invited Frank to be his and Zillah's guest. Wallace was hospitably inclined, and not a lit...

"Thank God, the danger is past!" came in a low-breathed exclamation from Mr. Dinsmore's lips. "Ah, my darling, did I wake you?" as he perceived the soft brown eyes of his little daughter gazing lovingly into his. "No, papa dear, I have been awake a good while, but have not dared to move for fear of disturbing you," she said,... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com acresoft....

The next morning Mr. and Mrs. Ormsby started on their bridal trip—a visit to his relatives, to Aunt Wealthy and the old Ohio home. Their departure left the house strangely empty and desolate, to the consciousness of mother and sisters especially, and Frank Osborne's advent... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com acresoft.contactin.bio

Wallace Ormsby sought and obtained a second interview with Mr. Keith that evening, in which he asked his senior partner to take him into still closer relations, and bestow upon him a priceless gift. Mr. Keith was both surprised and... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com acresoft.contactin.bio

We will pass briefly over the events of the next five years, during which there were few changes in the Keith family but such as time must bring to all. The lines had deepened somewhat on Mr. Keith's brow and the hair on his temples was growing gray. The anxieties and burdens of life pressed more heavily upon him than upon his... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com acresof...

The new school had opened the previous week, and was now in successful operation. Zillah and Ada were pursuing their studies with redoubled zeal and interest, finding a constant spur in the desire to keep pace with,... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com acresoft.contactin.bio

Mildred's charity, beginning at home, did not end there: very earnestly and persistently she strove to scatter blessings as "a shower of gold" wherever she went; to make every life that came in contact with hers, at ever so small a point, the better and brighter for that contact, though it were by but a cheery word or smile. Do you say these are small matters, scarcely worthy of attention? Ah! to...

Yes, it was joy and gladness just to be alive this sweet spring morning. The swift-flowing river gleamed and sparkled in the sunlight; the forest trees on the farther side were touched with a tender yellow green; the grass along the wayside and in the dooryards was of a deeper, richer hue, and spangled thickly with violets and dandelions, and the peach and cherry trees in the gardens were in full...

"Mother, he seems to imply that I am not likely to hear from him again for years," Mildred remarked, half in assertion, half as asking her mother's understanding of the drift of young Landreth's communication. "Yes, I think so," Mrs. Keith responded in gentle, pitying tones. Then more brightly and cheerily, "But perhaps, dear, that certainty is better—will be less trying—than a constantly disappoi...

Mr. Keith and Wallace Ormsby were busy, each at his own desk; unbroken silence had reigned in the office for the last half hour, when suddenly dropping his pen and wheeling about in his chair, the elder gentleman... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com acresoft.contactin.bio

"My dear child, you have improved wonderfully," Mrs. Keith said, as Mildred concluded a much longer and more difficult piece of music than the one with which she had begun. "She has indeed! I'm quite proud of her performance," echoed Mr. Keith. "She does make terrible fine music," put in Celestia Ann; "but I wisht she'd stop a bit, or them dishes o' mine 'll never git washed." "And I must go to th...

"There is a letter, my dear, which concerns you quite as much as myself," Mr. Keith said, putting it into his wife's hand. "It gives information which perhaps, for several reasons, it may be as well for us to keep to ourselves for the present," he added, with a smile. "That is why I kept it back until now that we are alone." They had retired to their own room for the night, and the little ones who...

"O Wallace, forgive me! Not for worlds would I have hurt you so if—if I could have helped it." Mildred's voice was full of tears, and she ended with a sigh that was half a sob. His head was turned away so that she could not catch so much as a glimpse of his face. "It is just what I expected when you went away," he answered huskily; "but I don't blame you. I've always known I wasn't half good enoug...

The callers departed to their own homes. Mr. Keith called the household together, and, as usual, closed the day with prayer and praise and the reading of the word of God. The good-nights were exchanged, and presently Mildred sat alone in her own room, slowly taking down her wealth of rich brown hair, while thought, half troubled, half pleasurable, was busy in her brain. A gentle tap on the door, t...

Could that be home—that pretty, tasteful dwelling, embosomed in trees, shrubs, and vines? Mildred was half in doubt, for the house itself seemed to have grown as well as the vegetation that environed it. But yes, the stage was stopping: and there were father and Rupert at the gate, mother and the rest on the porch; every face beaming a joyous welcome. How Mr. Lord envied them as the stage whirled...

By the time they reached Lansdale, Mildred was weary enough to be very glad of a few days' rest; rest whose delights were doubled and trebled by being taken in the society of her dear old aunt. The travellers were received with the warmest of welcomes, Mildred embraced over and over again, and Mr. Lord repeatedly and heartily thanked for bringing her. "Dear child, how you are improved.".. #story #...

The sun was just peeping over the tops of the tall city houses as Mildred entered the carriage which was to convey her to the depot. Mr. Dinsmore and little Elsie—the two whom it was a grief of heart to her to leave—were with her; Mrs. Dinsmore and the others had bidden good-by before retiring the previous night, and were still in bed. "Elsie, darling, won't you sit in cousin's lap?" Mildred said,...

The end of the week found the Dinsmores and Mildred in Philadelphia, very busy with sight-seeing and shopping. Each one of the party was to be furnished with a suitable outfit for fall and the coming winter, and Mildred had a long list of commissions from her mother. Mrs. Dinsmore showed herself keenly interested in the purchase of her own and her children's finery, languidly so in Mildred's; thes...

The sun was just peeping over the tops of the tall city houses as Mildred entered the carriage which was to convey her to the depot. Mr. Dinsmore and little Elsie—the two whom it was a grief of heart to her to leave—were with her; Mrs. Dinsmore and the others... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com http://acresoft.contactin.bio

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judæa, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. And...

Early in June, the Dinsmores repaired to the sea-shore, taking Mildred with them; also little Elsie and her mammy. The whole summer was spent at watering-places, and Mr. Landreth was generally one of their party. Mildred enjoyed it, the time spent at the sea-shore, especially, very much in a quiet way, taking no part in the... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com cointr.ee/...

"Do you like it, aunt?" asked Mildred, approaching Mrs. Dinsmore, as she was in the act of clasping the bracelet on her arm. "Yes, it's very handsome; but I think there might as well have been a pair of them." "Ah!" returned Mildred with a smile, directed toward Mr. Dinsmore; "little Elsie would have been glad to make it so, but uncle held the purse-strings, and was inexorably determined that it s...

"Mamma, what's the matter?" asked Adelaide Dinsmore. They were at the breakfast table; Mrs. Dinsmore was reading a letter from her husband, and Adelaide had been studying her face the while, noting the gathering frown upon the brow, the flushing of the cheek, the compression of the lips that spoke of increasing anger. "Matter? I was never so provoked in my life!" cried Mrs. Dinsmore, crushing the...

Mr. Dinsmore was, in the main, a kind-hearted man, therefore felt a good deal uncomfortable in prospect of the grief likely to be manifested by the four or five hundred negroes belonging to the plantation, and particularly the house-servants, when called upon to part with little Elsie. Both Mrs. Murray and Mildred had spoken to him of their strong attachment to the child, and his own observation h...