The English Orphans: A Home in the New World (Classic Reprint)

CHAPTER I. THE EMIGRANTS. "WIIAT makes you keep that big blue sun· bonnet dra.wn so closely over Y9.ur face ~ arc you afraid of having it seen? ,) Tlie person addressed was a pale, sickly.looking child a.bout nine years of age, who, on the deck of the vessel Win~ dermere, was guzing intently towards the distant shores of old I~ngland) which were fa.st recediDg from view. Near her a fine-looking boy of fourteen was standing, and trying in vain to gain a look at the fe~tures so securely shaded from view by the gingham bonnet. At the sound of his voice the little girl sta.rted, and with· out turning her head, replied, "Nobody wants to Bee me, I am so ugly and disagreeable." "Ugly are you?" repeated the boy, and at the samo time lifting bcr up and forcibly holding her hands, he succeeded in looking her fully in the face. « Well, you are not very bandsomc~ that's a. fact," said he, after satisfying his curiosity j "but I wouldn't be sullen about it. Ugly people ar

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