Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life. Volume 1

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Yonge Charlotte Mary. Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life. Volume 1

CHAPTER I. CHARLOTTE

CHAPTER II. AN OLD SCHOOLMISTRESS

CHAPTER III. LOUIS LE DEBONNAIRE

CHAPTER IV. THISTLE-DOWN

CHAPTER V. THE TWO MINISTERS

CHAPTER VI. FAREWELLS

CHAPTER VII. GOSSAMER

CHAPTER VIII. A TRUANT DISPOSITION

CHAPTER IX. THE FAMILY COMPACT

CHAPTER X. THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR

CHAPTER XI. A HALTING PROPOSAL

CHAPTER XII. CHILDE ROLAND

CHAPTER XIII. FROSTY, BUT KINDLY

CHAPTER XIV. NEW INHABITANTS

CHAPTER XV. MOTLEY THE ONLY WEAR

CHAPTER XVI. THE FRUIT OF THE CHRISTMAS-TREE

CHAPTER XVII. THE RIVALS

CHAPTER XVIII. REST FOR THE WEARY

CHAPTER XIX. MOONSHINE

CHAPTER XX. THE FANTASTIC VISCOUNT

CHAPTER XXI. THE HERO OF THE BARRICADES

CHAPTER XXII. BURGOMASTERS AND GREAT ONE-EYERS

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An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chesnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her tight, plain cap tresses of flaxen hair that many a beauty might have envied, was banging a cocoa-nut mat, chanting by way of accompaniment in a sort of cadence—

'Hollo, I'll give you a shilling for 'em!' was the unlooked-for conclusion, causing her to start aside with a slight scream, as there stood beside her a stout, black-eyed, round-faced lad, his ruddy cheeks and loutish air showing more rusticity than agreed with his keen, saucy expression, and mechanic's dress.

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'Yes, she went out at seventeen. I believe she is an infinite comfort to her mother.'

'Poor Mary! Well, we children lived in the middle of a tragedy, and little suspected it! By the bye, what relation are the Ponsonbys to us?'

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