Mr. Hogarth's Will
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Catherine Helen Spence. Mr. Hogarth's Will
Mr. Hogarth's Will
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Volume I
Volume II
Volume III
Volume I
Chapter I. The Will
Chapter II. Disappointment and Hope; Prose and Poetry
Chapter III. Closed Doors
Chapter IV. An Evening At Mr. Rennie's
Chapter V. A Humble Friend
Chapter VI. A Bundle Of Old Letters
Chapter VII. Up And Down
Chapter VIII. Peggy Walker's Adventures
Chapter IX. Peggy Walker's Adventures
Chapter X. Elsie's Literary Venture, and Its Success
Chapter XI. Some Grave Talk In Gay Company
Chapter XII. Mr. Brandon In Edinburgh
Chapter XIII. Peggy's Visitors, And Francis' Resolution
Chapter XIV. Good News For Francis
Volume II
Chapter I. How Francis Received The Good News
Chapter II. Jane's Situation
Chapter III. Elsie's Situation
Chapter IV. Elsie Refuses An Excellent Offer
Chapter V. Elsie Accepts Of A New Situation
Chapter VI. A Letter From Australia For Francis, Which Causes. Surprise In An Unexpected Quarter
Chapter VII. Harriett Phillips Does A Little Bit Of Shopping, Which Is Somewhat Fatal To Her Projects
Chapter VIII. Francis Makes A Favourable Impression On Harriett Phillips
Chapter IX. A Bonnet Gained And A Lover Lost
Chapter X. A Seance
Chapter XI. Spiritualism, Love, And Politics
Chapter XII. Chiefly Political
Chapter XIII. Good-Bye
Chapter XIV. Francis Hogarth's Canvass And Election
Chapter XV. Mrs. Phillips's First Grief
Chapter XVI. Another Good-Bye
Volume III
Chapter I. Mr. Brandon's Second Proposal To Elsie, And Its Fate
Chapter II. Mrs. Peck
Chapter III. Raising The Wind
Chapter IV. Miss Phillips Meets With A Congenial Spirit In Victoria
Chapter V. Dr. Grant Prosecutes His Suit With Caution And Success, And Brandon Finds His Love-Making All To Do Over Again
Chapter VI. Mrs. Peck's Progress
Chapter VII. Business Interrupted By Love
Chapter VIII. Mrs. Phillips Is Relieved
Chapter IX. Mrs. Peck's Communication
Chapter X. Mrs. Peck's Disappointment
Chapter XI. Elsie Melville's Letter
Chapter XII. What Can Be Made Of It?
Chapter XIII. Not So Bad, After All
Chapter XIV. Meeting
Epilogue
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Catherine Helen Spence
Published by Good Press, 2021
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When Jane Melville told her cousin that her uncle had been always kind and always reasonable, she expressed her own opinion, for she had loved and honoured him so much that she felt no hardship in doing everything he wished; but no one else in the house or in the neighbourhood would have endorsed that opinion. When the rumour spread far and wide that he had disinherited his nieces, in the expectation that the education he had given them would enable them to provide handsomely for themselves, the servants and workpeople about shook their heads, and said it was "aye weel kenned that the auld laird had a bee in his bonnet;" while the class with whom Mr. Hogarth associated on more equal terms declared; that this last eccentricity of affection (for it was all done out of pure love), surpassed all his other oddities with regard to the girls, which had long been the talk of the whole country.
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