The Long Vacation
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Yonge Charlotte Mary. The Long Vacation
CHAPTER I. – A CHAPTER OF RETROSPECT
CHAPTER II. – A CHAPTER OF TWADDLE
CHAPTER III. – DARBY AND JOAN
CHAPTER IV. – SLUM, SEA, OR SEASON
CHAPTER V. – A HAPPY SPRITE
CHAPTER VI. – ST. ANDREW’S ROCK
CHAPTER VII. – THE HOPE OF VANDERKIST
CHAPTER VIII. – THE MOUSE-TRAP
CHAPTER IX. – OUT BEYOND
CHAPTER X. – NOBLESSE OBLIGE
CHAPTER XI. – HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP
CHAPTER XII. – THE LITTLE BUTTERFLY
CHAPTER XIII. – TWO SIDES OF A SHIELD AGAIN
CHAPTER XIV. – BUTTERFLY’S NECTAR
CHAPTER XV. – A POOR FOREIGN WIDOW
CHAPTER XVI. – “SEE, THE CONQUERING HERO COMES”
CHAPTER XVII. – EXCLUDED
CHAPTER XVIII. – THE EVIL STAR
CHAPTER XIX. – SHOP-DRESSING
CHAPTER XX. – FRENCH LEAVE
CHAPTER XXI. – THE MASQUE
CHAPTER XXII. – THE REGATTA
CHAPTER XXIII. – ILLUMINATIONS
CHAPTER XXIV. – COUNSELS OF PATIENCE
CHAPTER XXV. – DESDICHADO
CHAPTER XXVI. – THE SILENT STAR
CHAPTER XXVII. – THE RED MANTLE
CHAPTER XXVIII. – ROCCA MARINA
CHAPTER XXIX. – ROWENA AND HER RIVAL
CHAPTER XXX. – DREAMS AND NIGHTINGALES
CHAPTER XXXI. – THE COLD SHOULDER
CHAPTER XXXII. – THE TEST OF DAY-DREAMS
CHAPTER XXXIII. – A MISSIONARY WEDDING
CHAPTER XXXIV. – RIGHTED
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If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods.
Continuations are proverbially failures, and yet it is perhaps a consequence of the writer’s realization of characters that some seem as if they could not be parted with, and must be carried on in the mind, and not only have their after-fates described, but their minds and opinions under the modifications of advancing years and altered circumstances.
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The two young people began to smile as soon as they were left alone.
“Did you ever see Bexley?” asked Anna.
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