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The Railway Children
Chapter I. The beginning of things.
They were not railway children to begin with. I don’t suppose they had
ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne
and Cook’s, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud’s.
They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their
Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured
glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a
bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and
a good deal of white paint, and ‘every modern convenience’, as the
house-agents say.
There were three of them. Roberta was the eldest. Of course, Mothers
never have favourites, but if their Mother HAD had a favourite, it might
have been Roberta. Next came Peter, who wished to be an Engineer when he
grew up; and the youngest was Phyllis, who meant extremely well.
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