Edred wore very white trousers that came right up under his arms, a blue coat with brass buttons, and a sort of frilly tucker round his neck. Her arms were bare, and a muslin handkerchief was folded across her chest. Her square-toed brown shoes were gone, and her feet wore flimsy sandals. Elfrida had a short-waisted dress of green-sprigged cotton, with a long and skimpy skirt. They did not know how it was done, any more than you do-but it seemed, somehow, that the pigeon noises were like hands that helped, and presently there the two children stood in clothing such as they had never worn.
The pigeon noises came closer and closer, and garments were drawn out of the chest and put on the children.
The final episode, in which the children rescue their father from a lost civilization in South America, is reminiscent of the legends of El Dorado and other Cities of Gold.Ī sequel, Harding's Luck, was published in 1909.And then it seemed as though the cooing and rustling of the pigeons came right through the roof and crowded round them in a sort of dazzlement and cloud of pigeon noises. 1535: a May Day celebration with Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, with premonitions of Anne's execution.
Nesbit and published in 1908.Ī boy named Edred Arden inherits the title of Lord Arden and the dilapidated Arden Castle.
The House of Arden is a novel for children written by the English author E.
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