Beechcroft at Rockstone
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Yonge Charlotte Mary. Beechcroft at Rockstone
CHAPTER I. – A DISPERSION
CHAPTER II. – ROCKQUAY
CHAPTER III. – PERPETUAL MOTION
CHAPTER IV. – THE QUEEN OF THE WHITE ANTS
CHAPTER V. – MARBLES
CHAPTER VI. – SINGLE MISFORTUNES NEVER COME ALONE
CHAPTER VII. – AN EMPTY NEST
CHAPTER VIII. – GILLIAN’S PUPIL
CHAPTER IX. – GAUGING AJEE
CHAPTER X. – AUT CAESAR AUT NIHIL
CHAPTER XI. – LADY MERRIFIELD’S CHRISTMAS LETTER-BAG
CHAPTER XII. – TRANSFORMATION
CHAPTER XIII. – ST. VALENTINE’S DAY
CHAPTER XIV. – THE PARTNER
CHAPTER XV. – THE ROCKS OF ROCKSTONE
CHAPTER XVI. – VANISHED
CHAPTER XVII. – ‘THEY COME, THEY COME’
CHAPTER XVIII. – FATHER AND MOTHER
CHAPTER XIX. – THE KNIGHT AND THE DRAGON
CHAPTER XX. – IVINGHOE TERRACE
CHAPTER XXI. – BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
CHAPTER XXII. – THE MAIDEN ALL FORLORN
CHAPTER XXIII. – FANGS
CHAPTER XXIV. – CONCLUSION
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The actual moment of a parting is often softened by the confusion of departure. That of the Merrifield family took place at the junction, where Lady Merrifield with her brother remained in the train, to be carried on to London.
Gillian, Valetta, and Fergus, with their aunt, changed into a train for Rockstone, and Harry was to return to his theological college, after seeing Mysie and Primrose off with nurse on their way to the ancestral Beechcroft, whence Mysie was to be fetched to Rotherwood. The last thing that met Lady Merrifield’s eyes was Mrs. Halfpenny gesticulating wildly, under the impression that Mysie’s box was going off to London.
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Gillian somehow felt a certain amusement and satisfaction in finding that Aunt Jane had one disobedient subject, but they were interrupted by two ladies eagerly asking where to find Miss Mohun, and a few steps farther on a young clergyman accosted them, and begged that Miss Mohun might be told the hour of some meeting. Also that ‘the Bellevue Church people would not co-operate in the coal club.’
Then it was explained that Bellevue Church was within the bounds of another parish, and had been built by, and for, people who did not like the doctrine at the services of St. Andrew’s.
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