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Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Maid of the Abbey
Maid of the Abbey
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A RAPTUROUS PROSPECT
CHAPTER II. A THRILL FOR LINDY
CHAPTER III. MAIDLIN’S PROBLEM
CHAPTER IV. LINDY FINDS THE ABBEY
CHAPTER V. THE KITTEN IN THE TREE
CHAPTER VI. MARCHWOOD TWINS
CHAPTER VII. MAIDLIN SHOWS THE ABBEY
CHAPTER VIII. MISS BELINDA
CHAPTER IX. AN EMPTY SCHOOLROOM
CHAPTER X. MRS. SPINDLE BRINGS TROUBLE
CHAPTER XI. BELLANNES TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XII. DONALD’S LETTER
CHAPTER XIII. THE MONKS’ PATH
CHAPTER XIV. A LARK SINGS IN THE ABBEY
CHAPTER XV. MAIDLIN MEETS ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XVI. TELLING ROSAMUND
CHAPTER XVII. MAIDLIN’S PERFECT DAY
CHAPTER XVIII. TELLING JOY
CHAPTER XIX. DR. JOCK MAKES PLANS
CHAPTER XX. PRIZES FOR TWINS
CHAPTER XXI. MAIDLIN’S LITTLE HOUSE
CHAPTER XXII. JOY COMES HOME
CHAPTER XXIII. PASSING ON THE TORCH
CHAPTER XXIV. MAIDING MAID
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Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley
Published by Good Press, 2021
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For two years now her choice of birthday and Christmas treats had not been a theatre but a concert, and she had heard—from cheap gallery seats—the best singers and the best music. Always she tuned in the portable wireless to hear London, and in this way she had listened during the Christmas holidays to The Messiah in the Albert Hall and had been fascinated by the singing of the contralto, a young half-Italian girl who was taking the solos for the first time. When Lindy had heard from Anne that this same girl was coming to Manchester to take the part of The Angel in The Dream of Gerontius, on the very day after her return from school, there had been no doubt of her choice of her birthday treat. Nothing else would satisfy her; she must see Madalena di Ravarati, not merely hear her as a voice; and she must hear the rich deep contralto sing the beautiful music of The Angel.
Lindy went about all day in a happy dream, and as she helped Anne to look over clothes, and mend, and pack for the trip to the country, her thoughts were not on her work but in the Free Trade Hall, where no doubt preparation for the evening performance was in progress. Dr. Robertson was the conductor; he would certainly insist on a rehearsal. And no doubt Miss di Ravarati would want one too, to get used to the hall. Did you say “Miss,” with a name like that? Or should it be Signorina?
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