A Christmas house-party at a grand old English estate brings together a group of family and friends whose complicated relations are clarified and healed over the course of Christmas holidays. Maurice Treherne is a young man confined to a wheelchair after saving the life of his cousin, Sir Jasper Treherne. Maurice's love is given to his cousin Octavia, although their romance is blocked by Jasper and Octavia's mother who feels that she can't give her daughter to a cripple. Also in the party is Mrs. Snowdon, a beautiful young woman whose affections Jasper and Maurice once competed for, and who seems determined to renew her conquest. What further complicates the situation is a mysterious ghostly appearance in the attic and what hides behind it.
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Louisa May Alcott. The Abbot's Ghost (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
The Abbot's Ghost (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
Table of Contents
Chapter I. Dramatis Personae
Chapter II. Byplay
Chapter III. Who Was It?
Chapter IV. Feeding the Peacocks
Chapter V. Under the Mistletoe
Chapter VI. Miracles
Chapter VII. A Ghostly Revel
Chapter VIII. Jasper
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Louisa May Alcott
Gothic Christmas Tale
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Treherne smiled, well pleased, for no sign of maiden shame or pleasure did the girl's face betray, and as he watched her while she peeped, he thought with satisfaction, Annon is right, _I_ have the advantage, and I'll keep it at all costs.
"Here is Mamma. We must go in," said Octavia, as a stately old lady made her appearance in the drawing room.
