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The Golden Calf

M. E. Braddon

The story centers around Ida Palliser, an articled pupil at a boarding school, who longs for a better life despite her challenging circumstances.

"The Golden Calf" by M. E. Braddon is a novel. The story centers around Ida Palliser, an articled pupil at a boarding school, who longs for a better life despite her challenging circumstances.

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'Where is Miss Palliser?' inquired Miss Pew, in that awful voice of hers, at which the class-room trembled, as at unexpected thunder. A murmur ran along the desks, from girl to girl, and then some one, near that end of the long room which was sacred to Miss Pew and her lieutenants, said that Miss Palliser was not in the class-room.

'I think she is taking her music lesson, ma'am,' faltered the girl who had ventured diffidently to impart this information to the schoolmistress.

'Think?' exclaimed Miss Pew, in her stentorian voice. 'How can you think about an absolute fact? Either she is taking her lesson, or she is not taking her lesson. There is no room for thought. Let Miss Palliser be sent for this moment.'

At this command, as at the behest of the Homeric Jove himself, half a dozen Irises started up to carry the ruler's message; but again Miss Pew's mighty tones resounded in the echoing class-room.

'I don't want twenty girls to carry one message. Let Miss Rylance go.'

Contents

  1. 01Chapter II.
  2. 02Chapter III.
  3. 03Chapter IV.
  4. 04Chapter V.
  5. 05Chapter VI.
  6. 06Chapter VII.
  7. 07Chapter VIII.
  8. 08Chapter IX.
  9. 09Chapter X.
  10. 10Chapter XI.
  11. 11Chapter XII.
  12. 12Chapter XIII.
  13. 13Chapter XIV.
  14. 14Chapter XV.
  15. 15Chapter XVI.
  16. 16Chapter XVII.
  17. 17Chapter XVIII
  18. 18Chapter XIX.
  19. 19Chapter XX.
  20. 20Chapter XXI.
  21. 21Chapter XXII.
  22. 22Chapter XXIII.
  23. 23Chapter XXIV.
  24. 24Chapter XXV.
  25. 25Chapter XXVI.
  26. 26Chapter XXVII.
  27. 27Chapter XXVIII.
  28. 28Chapter XXIX.
  29. 29Chapter XXX.
  30. 30Chapter XXXI.

About this edition

Author
M. E. Braddon
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
521 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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