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That Stick (Paperback)
Charlotte M Yonge
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R340
Discovery Miles 3 400
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Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) began writing in 1848 and
published about 100 works, chiefly novels. Her first commercial
success was "The Heir of Redclyffe" (1854). During her lifetime,
she was admired and respected by such notable literary figures as
Alfred Tennyson and Henry James, and strongly influenced the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, especially William Morris and D. G.
Rossetti.
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) began writing in 1848 and
published about 100 works, chiefly novels. Her first commercial
success was The Heir of Redclyffe (1854). During her lifetime, she
was admired and respected by such notable literary figures as
Alfred Tennyson and Henry James, and strongly influenced the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, especially William Morris and D. G.
Rossetti.
"Throughout these tales the plan has been to present a picture of
ordinary life, with its small daily events, its pleasures, and its
trials, so as to draw out its capabilities of being turned to the
best account. Great events, such as befall only a few, are thus
excluded, and in the hope of helping to present a clue, by example,
to the perplexities of daily life, the incidents, which render a
story exciting, have been sacrificed, and the attempt has been to
make the interest of the books depend on character painting." --
Charlotte M. Yonge, from the Preface
The recent wedding was the third in the family; the first after a
five years' respite. It ensued upon an attachment that had grown up
with the young people, so that they had been entirely one with each
other; and there had been little of formal demand either of the
maiden's affection or her father's consent; but both had been
implied from the first. The bridegroom was barely of age, the bride
not seventeen, and Dr. May had owned it was very shocking, and told
Richard to say nothing about it Hector had coaxed and pleaded,
pathetically talked of his great empty house at Maplewood, and
declared that till he might take Blanche away, he would not leave
Stoneborough; he would bring down all sorts of gossip on his
courtship, he would worry Ethel, and take care she finished
nobody's education. What did Blanche want with more education? She
knew enough for him. Couldn't Ethel be satisfied with Aubrey and
Gertrude? or he dared say she might have Mary too, if she was
insatiable. If Dr. May was so unnatural as to forbid him to hang
about the house, why, he would take rooms at the Swan. In fact, as
Dr. me a willow cabin at your gate;' and as he heartily loved
Hector and entirely trusted him, and Blanche's pretty head was a
wise and prudent one, what was the use of keeping the poor lad
unsettled? So Mrs. Rivers, the eldest sister and the member's wife,
had come to arrange matters and help Ethel, and a very brilliant
wedding it had been.
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The Trial (Paperback)
Charlotte M Yonge
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R526
R464
Discovery Miles 4 640
Save R62 (12%)
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The recent wedding was the third in the family; the first after a
five years' respite. It ensued upon an attachment that had grown up
with the young people, so that they had been entirely one with each
other; and there had been little of formal demand either of the
maiden's affection or her father's consent; but both had been
implied from the first. The bridegroom was barely of age, the bride
not seventeen, and Dr. May had owned it was very shocking, and told
Richard to say nothing about it Hector had coaxed and pleaded,
pathetically talked of his great empty house at Maplewood, and
declared that till he might take Blanche away, he would not leave
Stoneborough; he would bring down all sorts of gossip on his
courtship, he would worry Ethel, and take care she finished
nobody's education. What did Blanche want with more education? She
knew enough for him. Couldn't Ethel be satisfied with Aubrey and
Gertrude? or he dared say she might have Mary too, if she was
insatiable. If Dr. May was so unnatural as to forbid him to hang
about the house, why, he would take rooms at the Swan. In fact, as
Dr. me a willow cabin at your gate;' and as he heartily loved
Hector and entirely trusted him, and Blanche's pretty head was a
wise and prudent one, what was the use of keeping the poor lad
unsettled? So Mrs. Rivers, the eldest sister and the member's wife,
had come to arrange matters and help Ethel, and a very brilliant
wedding it had been.
Little Mary Carbonel was not the worse for all the agitations, from
which, indeed, she had been so carefully shielded, but her mother
was sadly broken down by all she had undergone, and likewise by
mortification at the whole conduct of the Uphill people. After all
the years that she and her husband and sisters had striven for
them, it was very hard to find that so very few would exert
themselves for their protection, and that so many would even turn
against them. It was hard to make allowance for the bewilderment of
slow minds, for sheer cowardice, and for the instinct of going
along with one's own class of people. She and Sophy prayed that
they might forgive the people, but it was impossible just then not
to feel that there was a good deal to forgive, and Captain Caiger
was always telling them that all their trouble came in trying to
help the good-for-nothing people.
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