The Project Gutenberg EBook of Stories for Helen, by Eliza Leslie

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Stories for Helen

Author: Eliza Leslie

Release Date: August 23, 2010 [EBook #33510]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STORIES FOR HELEN ***

Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

[Illustration: THE TELL TALE.]

STORIES FOR HELEN

BY

MISS ELIZA LESLIE,

AUTHOR OF STORIES FOR EMMA, STORIES FOR ADELAIDE, ETC.

"Our most important are our earliest years."--_Cowper._

PHILADELPHIA:
HENRY F. ANNERS.
CHESNUT STREET.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1845,

BY ELIZA LESLIE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania.

Printed by King & Baird.

ADVERTISEMENT.

The following stories have been selected by the author, from a small
volume originally published with the title of Atlantic Tales. They have
been carefully revised; and she indulges the hope that her juvenile
readers may derive from them a little instruction blended with a little
amusement.

PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 1, 1845.

CONTENTS.

Page.

The Tell-Tale, 5

The Boarding School Feast, 28

The Week of Idleness, 67

Madeline Malcolm, 98

THE TELL-TALE.

"_How all occasions do inform against me!_"
_Shakspeare._

Rosamond Evering was one of those indiscreet mischievous girls who are
in the daily practice of repeating every thing they see and hear;
particularly all the unpleasant remarks, and unfavourable opinions that
happen to be unguardedly expressed in their presence. She did not
content herself with relating only as much as she actually saw and
heard; but (as is always the case with tell-tales) she dealt greatly in
exaggeration, and her stories never failed to exceed the rea