Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: by referring it to Maurice, although Mrs. O'Brien said, she could not think of allowing Winnie to go herself. She could never answer for the consequences to her mother in India. And that night, during the little while that Winnie lay awake before she fell asleep, her heart was much too full of little Fan and her griefs to wonder any more whether she had got into the Contracting Chamber. Just as she was falling asleep, however, what Maurice had said about the Five Worlds came into her mind, and she resolved to ask what he meant. One new world had opened before her and be- neath her that day, which she certainly could not yet see to the end of. The next morning Winnie awoke very wide awake. She had been dreaming about being stifled in the Contracting Chamber; and when she opened her eyes it was very pleasant to see that the sun was shining in at the two undiminished windows of her room, and the jasmine sprays tapping at the glass, as if to tell her to get up. She arose and opened the window, and looked out on the lawn, still sparkling with dew, and drank in the early fragrance of the flowers, and looked beyond and beyond, over the shrubberies, and over the fields, and over the woods, and over the blue hills, to the bright sky, and thought how wide the world was. And then, as the breeze brushed a cluster of climbing roses against her cheek, and filled the room withsweet smells, she thought of little Fan, and the one rose which had given her such delight, and had seemed such a treasure to her. And she thought how rich the world was, if one of its millions of flowers could fill any one's heart with such pleasure. But then it came into her heart how tired she had been of everything, and what it was that made the difference between her and little Fan. " It was Dan...