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Kit and Kitty: A Story of West Middlesex

R. D. Blackmore

Set in a market garden near Sunbury-on-Thames, the story follows Kit and Kitty, two young lovers whose happiness is threatened by a scheming stepmother and her son.

"Kit and Kitty: A Story of West Middlesex" by R. D. Blackmore is a three-volume novel. Set in a market garden near Sunbury-on-Thames, the story follows Kit and Kitty, two young lovers whose happiness is threatened by a scheming stepmother and her son.

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My name is Christopher Orchardson, of Sunbury in Middlesex; and I have passed through a bitter trouble, which I will try to describe somehow, both for my wife’s sake and my own, as well as to set us straight again in the opinion of our neighbours, which I have always valued highly, though sometimes unable to show it. It has not been in my power always to do the thing that was wisest, and whenever this is brought up against me, I can make no answer, only to beg those who love blame to look at themselves, which will make their eyes grow kinder, before they begin to be turned on me.

For five and twenty years of life I went on very happily, being of an unambitious sort, and knowing neither plague nor pain, through the strength of my constitution and the easiness of my nature. Most of my neighbours seemed to live in perpetual lack of something, and if ever they got it they soon contrived to find something more to hanker for. There were times when I felt that I must be a fool, or to say the least a dullard, for slackness of perception, which kept me satisfied with the life I had to live. But two things may be pleaded well in my excuse on this account; in the first place, all my time was spent among creatures of no ambition—trees, and flowers, and horses, and the like, that have no worry; and what was even to the purpose more, I had no money to enlarge its love.

Contents

  1. 01Kit and Kitty.
  2. 02Chapter I. Uncle Corny.
  3. 03Chapter II. My Kitty.
  4. 04Chapter III the Timber Bridge.
  5. 05Chapter IV. Peaches, and Peaching
  6. 06Chapter V. A Little Tiff.
  7. 07Chapter VI. The Beauties of Nature.
  8. 08Chapter VII. De Gustibus.
  9. 09Chapter VIII. Bad Counsel.
  10. 10Chapter IX. A Dog Violate.
  11. 11Chapter X. An Upward Stroke.
  12. 12Chapter XI. The Fine Arts.
  13. 13Chapter XII. An Empty Pile.
  14. 14Chapter XIII. My Uncle Begins.
  15. 15Chapter XIV. And Ends with a Moral.
  16. 16Chapter XV. Moral Support.
  17. 17Chapter XVI. True Love.
  18. 18Chapter XVII. True Father.
  19. 19Chapter XVIII. False Mother.
  20. 20Chapter XIX. Doe Dem. Roe.
  21. 21Chapter XX. Aunt Parslow.
  22. 22Chapter XXI. A Tulip Bloom.
  23. 23Chapter XXII. Coldpepper Hall.
  24. 24Chapter XXIII. At Bay, and in the Bay.
  25. 25Chapter XXIV. Haro!
  26. 26Chapter XXV. On the Shelf.
  27. 27Chapter XXVI. A Downy Cove.
  28. 28Chapter XXVII. Off the Shelf.
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII. Out of All Reason.
  30. 30Chapter XXIX. A Fine Tip.
  31. 31Chapter XXX. Baskets.
  32. 32Chapter XXXI. The Giant of the Heath.
  33. 33Chapter XXXII. A Dream.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII. Urgent Measures.
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV. Two to One.
  36. 36Chapter XXXV. Under the Garden Wall.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI. Frost in May.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII. Cold Comfort.
  39. 39Chapter XXXVIII. None.
  40. 40Chapter XXXIX. On Two Chairs.
  41. 41Chapter XL. Job’s Comfort.
  42. 42Chapter XLI. True Comfort.
  43. 43Chapter XLII. Behind the Fiddle.
  44. 44Chapter XLIII. The Great Lady.
  45. 45Chapter XLIV. Met Again.
  46. 46Chapter XLV. Rogues Fall Out.
  47. 47Chapter XLVI. Tony Tonks.
  48. 48Chapter XLVII. Toadstools.
  49. 49Chapter XLVIII. The Duchess.
  50. 50Chapter XLIX. Crafty, and Simple.
  51. 51Chapter L. A Pocketful of Money.
  52. 52Chapter LI. Not in a Hurry.
  53. 53Chapter LII. A Wandering Gleam.
  54. 54Chapter LIII. A Bad Night.
  55. 55Chapter LIV. Prince’s Mansion.
  56. 56Chapter LV. Relief of Mind.
  57. 57Chapter LVI. Another Trace.
  58. 58Chapter LVII. A Vain Appeal.
  59. 59Chapter LVIII. Uncle Corny’s Love-Tale.
  60. 60Chapter LIX. A Cool Request.

About this edition

Author
R. D. Blackmore
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
541 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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