Chantry House

Name: Chantry House
Author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)

Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)

Domestic fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Family -- England -- Fiction

Transcribed from the 1905 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

 [Picture: What I do remember, is my mother reading to me as I lay in my
                               crib.  p. 3]





                              CHANTRY HOUSE


                                    BY
                            CHARLOTTE M. YONGE

      AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,’ ‘UNKNOWN TO HISTORY,’ ETC.

      [Picture: A feeble water-coloured drawing of the trio.  p. 2]

                      ILLUSTRATED BY W. J. HENNESSY

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                                  London
                        MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
                     NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
                                   1905

                          _All rights reserved_

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CONTENTS.

                 CHAPTER I.
                                        PAGE
A NURSERY PROSE                            1
                CHAPTER II.
SCHOOLROOM DAYS                           11
                CHAPTER III.
WIN AND SLOW                              17
                CHAPTER IV.
UBI LAPSUS, QUID FECI                     25
                 CHAPTER V.
A HELPING HAND                            34
                CHAPTER VI.
THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION                 43
                CHAPTER VII.
THE INHERITANCE                           50
               CHAPTER VIII.
THE OLD HOUSE                             59
                CHAPTER IX.
RATS                                      67
                 CHAPTER X.
OUR TUNEFUL CHOIR                         73
                CHAPTER XI.
‘THEY FORDYS’                             82
                CHAPTER XII.
MRS. SOPHIA’S FEUD                        89
               CHAPTER XIII.
A SCRAPE                                  96
                CHAPTER XIV.
THE MULLION CHAMBER                      107
                CHAPTER XV.
RATIONAL THEORIES                        117
                CHAPTER XVI.
CAT LANGUAGE                             126
               CHAPTER XVII.
THE SIEGE OF HILLSIDE                    136
               CHAPTER XVIII.
THE PORTRAIT                             149
                CHAPTER XIX.
THE WHITE FEATHER                        159
                CHAPTER XX.
VENI, VIDI, VICI                         171
                CHAPTER XXI.
THE OUTSIDE OF THE COURTSHIP             179
               CHAPTER XXII.
BRISTOL DIAMONDS                         186
               CHAPTER XXIII.
QUICKSANDS                               198
               CHAPTER XXIV.
AFTER THE TEMPEST                        208
                CHAPTER XXV.
HOLIDAY-MAKING                           217
               CHAPTER XXVI.
C. MORBUS, ESQ.                          229
               CHAPTER XXVII.
PETER’S THUNDERBOLT                      236
              CHAPTER XXVIII.
A SQUIRE OF DAMES                        245

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