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Excerpt: My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Publication My Young Alcides A Fade... ... Classics Publication My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portabl... ...My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rse, is another type, like Samson of old, since the facts of nature and of history are Divine parables. And as each one’s conquest is, in the track of... ... he now stands before me in memory. 5 Charlotte M. Yonge Our family history is a strange one. I, Lucy Alison, never even saw my twin brothers—n... ...lay until Harold, reduced to extremity at sight of one delicate shaving of turkey’s breast, burst out, “I say, Richardson, I must have some food. Cut ... ... such receipt for an appetite as shoot- ing in the snow. I remember when a turkey’s leg would have been nothing to me, after being out duck-shooting i... ...to testify to her how far the attack had been from anything approaching to constitutional in- sanity. The terrible fall, of which Harold’s head still ...

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Excerpt: Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes and Chara... ...n Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... she joined the others in the schoolroom, and they read aloud some book of history till two, the hour of dinner for the younger, and of luncheon for t... ... Mohun, who always heard any mention of himself. Mr. Devereux repeated his history, and discussed the matter with his uncle, only once interrupted by ... ...that she heard Cousin Rotherwood talk- ing, and it proved to be Jane’s old turkey cock gobbling.’ ‘No bad compliment,’ said Emily, ‘for Phyllis was on... ... compliment,’ said Emily, ‘for Phyllis was once known to say, on hearing a turkey cock, “How melodiously that nightingale sings.”’ ‘No, no! that was A... ...pas- sive to the active voice. Claude, on the contrary, was ashamed of his constitutional indolence, looked on it as a temptation, and struggled again...

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...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more...

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...CHANTRY HOUSE by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pulication Chantry House by ... ...cs Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...les, Frank, the Parent’s Assistant, and later, Croker’s Tales from English History, Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, Tales of a Grandfather, and the Riv... ... an antiquarian friend of my father, Mr. Stafford, who was great in county history, I hunted 39 Yo n g e up in the Museum library all I could discove... ...s a legitimate part of the Christmas pleasures; and after we had eaten our turkey, we found the evening long, except that Martyn escaped to snapdragon... ... Griff were engaged to that sentimental little girl. Emily coloured like a turkey cock between wrath and embar- rassment, and hotly protested against ... ...ter abroad, and warm sea or mountain air at once. Whether the disease were constitutional and would have come on at all events no one could tell. Cons... ...f with a look of glad hope, and I could see it was forbearance rather than constitutional diffidence that withheld him from awakening the maiden’s fee...

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Excerpt: The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Young Step-M... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...d done her utmost to persuade him to have the tooth extracted, and began a history of what the dentist ought to have done five years ago. His grandmot... ...ta Dobson, at which there was a general exclamation. ‘I wonder what is the history of the name,’ said Albinia; ‘it sounds like nothing but the diminut... ... thoughts, for she had a great gift of doing every- thing at once. A sharp constitutional walk was taken in the afternoon. She thought no one could lo... ...look at anything but the simple truth. This affection of the spine must be constitutional, and if neglect have aggravated the evil, it must date from ... ...you come with me?’ ‘Delightful, I want to see what Maurice will say to the turkey-cock.’ ‘Is it not too far for him?’ ‘He would run quite as many mile... ...rnon. Mr. Kendal’s letter to Gilbert was an absolute apology. Gil- bert in Turkey was a very different person from Gilbert at Bayford, and had assumed...

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...Preface: It is sometimes treated as an impertinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in calling on the very grea...

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...The T wo Sides of the Shield By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...The T wo Sides of the Shield By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Sides of... .... Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...c Classics Series Publication The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... know that people were not to be expected to answer stupid questions about history quite out of their own line, that was her fault. She did what she k... ...sired to hem. Each, how- ever, had a quarter of an hour’s reading aloud of history to do in turn, all from one big book, a history of Rome, and there ... ...nd boxes. Then the early dinner! The aunts had anticipated their Christmas turkey for that goodly company to help them eat it, but afterwards there wa... ... on foot through mud and mire—she who hated the being driven out to take a constitutional walk on the gravel road or the paved path! But she had some ...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...ge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Col... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...idge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...d me to see where I am particularly deficient, viz. general knowl- edge of history, and a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Roman customs, law cour... ...n making out a stiff bit of Greek or Latin if I have time, but I must read History chiefly this year, and then I hope to be selected next time. My tut... ...gher than that of most men: his nature was prone to introspection, and his constitutional inertness rendered it so difficult for him to live up to his... ...e, nearly 80 feet high, is erected with a wooden bird, about the size of a turkey, at the top; to hit this with a crossbow from a regular stand, about... ... the Matins were daily, and followed by a lecture. At this time Patteson’s constitutional shrinking from gen- eral society was in full force, and he a...

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...Excerpt: The sun shone slanting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old thorns in the holiday suit whence they take their name, giant?s nosegays of horse-chestnuts, mighty elms and stalwart oaks, singly or ...

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...Heartsease or Brother’s Wife By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartsease or Br... ... Classics Series Publication Heartsease or Brother’s Wife by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...ation Heartsease or Brother’s Wife by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...as a north-country bishop.’ John smiled. ‘You are perfect in the cathedral history.’ ‘I bought a little book about it.’ Her knowledge was, he found, i... ... timid bashfulness, greater than even at their first meeting. In fact, the history of his grief inspired her with a sort of rever- ential compassion f... ...rsed themselves as long as you have, who ever go out 116 Heartsease for a constitutional.’ ‘He will be on duty to-morrow,’ said Violet, ‘and so he wi... ...d; but without re- garding this, he continued, ‘Do you know I am come from Turkey, and there are plenty of ladies there, who go out to 207 Yonge walk... ...embled at each prancing dog, and was miserable at the neighbourhood of the turkey-cock; while Mr. Hunt’s attempts to force manliness on him only incre...

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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slen...

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...DYNEVOR TERRACE: OR THE CLUE OF LIFE BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,’ CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. V V V... ...VOR TERRACE: OR THE CLUE OF LIFE BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,’ CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. V V V V VOL OL OL OL OLUME I UME I UME I UME I UME I A ... ...OR THE CLUE OF LIFE BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,’ CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. V V V V VOL OL OL OL OLUME I UME I UME I UME I UME I A PENN STATE EL... ...STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Dynevor Terrace: or The Clue of Life, Volume One by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...BLICATION Dynevor Terrace: or The Clue of Life, Volume One by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...ld dame who taught him to spell. My scholars may make a Dr. Busby of me in history.’ ‘I am afraid your preferment will depend chiefly on James and you... ...by?’ ‘A child of five years old, who soon ceased howling, and confided his history to me. He had been visiting grandmamma in London, and was going hom... ...newed the tide of burning crimson in his cheek. ‘It is like whistling to a turkey-cock. If I had but the blue variety, it might be more comfortable, a... ... along the Northwold road, when he sallied forth in the twi- light for his constitutional walk, he did not analyse which number of the T errace was th...

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...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edi...

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...Preface: No one can be more sensible than is the Author that the present is an overgrown book of a nondescript class, neither the ?tale? for the young, nor the novel for their elders, but a mixture of both....

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...The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Daisy Chain,... ...assics Series Publication The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portabl... ...on The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...blue and white Dutch tiles bearing marvellous representations of Scripture history, and was protected by a very tall green guard; the chairs were much... ...nt voice of Hector Ernescliffe, as his honest Scottish face flushed like a turkey cock, “I as- sure you that Alan rides like—” “Like a horse marine,” ... ...ged in a reverie. She had heard in books of girls writing poetry, romance, history—gaining fifties and hundreds. Could not some of the myriads of fanc... ... he did not enliven his sisters. The three plod- ded on, taking a diligent constitutional walk, exchanging very few words, and those chiefly between t... ...ide and temper? It was true, and I hope it will do her good. Cure a piping turkey with a peppercorn sometimes. I have spoken to her, and told her to p...