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Fenton's Quest
The story introduces us to Gilbert Fenton, an Australian merchant visiting Lidford, a quiet village where he reflects on his life and the potential for romance when he meets the Marian Nowell, the adopted niece of Captain Sedgewick.
"Fenton's Quest" by M. E. Braddon is a novel. The story introduces us to Gilbert Fenton, an Australian merchant visiting Lidford, a quiet village where he reflects on his life and the potential for romance when he meets the Marian Nowell, the adopted niece of Captain Sedgewick.
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A warm summer evening, with a sultry haze brooding over the level landscape, and a Sabbath stillness upon all things in the village of Lidford, Midlandshire. In the remoter corners of the old gothic church the shadows are beginning to gather, as the sermon draws near its close; but in the centre aisle and about the pulpit there is broad daylight still shining-in from the wide western window, across the lower half of which there are tall figures of the Evangelists in old stained glass.
There are no choristers at Lidford, and the evening service is conducted in rather a drowsy way; but there is a solemn air of repose about the gray old church that should be conducive to tranquil thoughts and pious meditations. Simple and earnest have been the words of the sermon, simple and earnest seem the countenances of the congregation, looking reverently upwards at the face of their pastor; and one might fancy, contemplating that grand old church, so much too spacious for the needs of the little flock gathered there to-night, that Lidford was a forgotten, half-deserted corner of this earth, in which a man, tired of the press and turmoil of the world, might find an almost monastic solitude and calm.
Contents
- 01Chapter I
- 02Chapter II
- 03Chapter III
- 04Chapter IV
- 05Chapter V
- 06Chapter VI
- 07Chapter VII
- 08Chapter VIII
- 09Chapter IX
- 10Chapter X
- 11Chapter XI
- 12Chapter XII
- 13Chapter XIII
- 14Chapter XIV
- 15Chapter XV
- 16Chapter XVI
- 17Chapter XVII
- 18Chapter XVIII
- 19Chapter XIX
- 20Chapter XX
- 21Chapter XXI
- 22Chapter XXII
- 23Chapter XXIII
- 24Chapter XXIV
- 25Chapter XXV
- 26Chapter XXVI
- 27Chapter XXVII
- 28Chapter XXVIII
- 29Chapter XXIX
- 30Chapter XXX
- 31Chapter XXXI
- 32Chapter XXXII
- 33Chapter XXXIII
- 34Chapter XXXIV
- 35Chapter XXXV
- 36Chapter XXXVI
- 37Chapter XXXVII
- 38Chapter XXXVIII
- 39Chapter XXXIX
- 40Chapter XL
- 41Chapter XLI
- 42Chapter XLII
- 43Chapter XLIII
- 44Chapter XLIV
- 45Chapter XLV
- 46Chapter XLVI
- 47Chapter XLVII
About this edition
- Author
- M. E. Braddon
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 564 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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