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Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft — John Shaqi

Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at BeechcroftYonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)

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Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft

Name: Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft
Author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)

Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)

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

Yet, with all its faults, the children, who had been real to me, caught,
chiefly by the youthful sense of fun and enjoyment, the attention of
other children; and the curious semi-belief one has in the phantoms of
one’s brain made me dwell on their after life and share my discoveries
with my friends, not, however, writing them down till after the lapse of
all these years the tenderness inspired by associations of early days led
to taking up once more the old characters in _The Two Sides of the
Shield_; and the kind welcome this has met with has led to the
resuscitation of the crude and inexperienced tale which never pretended
to be more than a mere family chronicle.

                                                              C. M. YONGE.

6_th_ _October_ 1886.




CONTENTS

                                        PAGE
                 CHAPTER I
THE ELDER SISTER                           1
                 CHAPTER II
THE NEW COURT                              6
                CHAPTER III
THE NEW PRINCIPLE                         15
                 CHAPTER IV
HONEST PHYL                               26
                 CHAPTER V
VILLAGE GOSSIP                            35
                 CHAPTER VI
THE NEW FRIEND                            52
                CHAPTER VII
SIR MAURICE                               61
                CHAPTER VIII
THE BROTHERS                              78
                 CHAPTER IX
THE WASP                                 101
                 CHAPTER X
COUSIN ROTHERWOOD                        109
                 CHAPTER XI
DANCING                                  123
                CHAPTER XII
THE FEVER                                131
                CHAPTER XIII
A CURIOSITY MAP                          143
                CHAPTER XIV
CHRISTMAS                                155
                 CHAPTER XV
MINOR MISFORTUNES                        167
                CHAPTER XVI
VANITY AND VEXATION                      186
                CHAPTER XVII
LITTLE AGNES                             198
               CHAPTER XVIII
DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE          208
                CHAPTER XIX
THE RECTOR’S ILLNESS                     222
                 CHAPTER XX
THE LITTLE NEPHEW                        227
                CHAPTER XXI
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME                   235
                CHAPTER XXII
THE BARONIAL COURT                       249
               CHAPTER XXIII
JOYS AND SORROWS                         256
                CHAPTER XXIV
LOVE’S LABOUR LOST                       264
                CHAPTER XXV
THE THIRTIETH OF JULY                    277
                CHAPTER XXVI
THE CRISIS                               297
               CHAPTER XXVII
CONCLUSION                               313



CHAPTER I
THE ELDER SISTER


    ‘Return, and in the daily round
       Of duty and of love,
    Thou best wilt find that patient faith
       That lifts the soul above.’

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Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft

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