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Edna Browning

Mary Jane Holmes

The story centers around the lives of Roy Leighton, his family, and Edna Browning, the young widow of Roy's brother, Charlie.

"Edna Browning; or, the Leighton Homestead" by Mary Jane Holmes is a novel. The story centers around the lives of Roy Leighton, his family, and Edna Browning, the young widow of Roy's brother, Charlie.

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“Robert, son of Arthur and Anna Leighton, born April 5th, 18——,” was the record which the old family Bible bore of our hero’s birth, parentage, and name, but by his mother and those who knew him best, he was always called Roy, and by that name we introduce him to our readers on a pleasant morning in May, when, wrapped in a heavy shawl, he sat in a corner of a car with a tired, worn look upon his face, and his teeth almost chattering with the cold.

A four-month’s acquaintance with the chill fever, taken at the time the river rose so high, and he worked all day to save some of his tenants who lived along the meadows, had wasted him to a shadow, and he was on his way to the West, hoping that change of air and scene would accomplish what bottles and bottles of quinine, with all the usual remedies for fever and ague, had failed to do.

Beside him sat his mother, a fair-haired, proud-faced little lady of fifty, or more, who conducted herself with a dignity 8becoming the mistress of Leighton Homestead, her son’s beautiful home on the Hudson.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. Roy, Our Hero.
  2. 02Chapter II. At Leighton Homestead.
  3. 03Chapter III. Georgie’s Telegram.
  4. 04Chapter IV. Georgie.
  5. 05Chapter V. Roy’s Decision.
  6. 06Chapter VI. News of Edna.
  7. 07Chapter VII. Miss Pepper’s Letter.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. The Brave Little Woman.
  9. 09Chapter IX. After the Accident.
  10. 10Chapter X. Georgie and Jack.
  11. 11Chapter XI. Edna’s First Weeks at Mrs. Dana’s.
  12. 12Chapter XII. How Aunt Jerusha Received the News.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. Jack’s Home.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. Edna and Annie.
  15. 15Chapter XV. Aunt Jerry.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. Aunt Jerry and Edna.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. Where Edna Went.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. At Uncle Phil’s.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Uncle Phil.
  20. 20Chapter XX. Up in the North Room.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. Miss Overton.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. Maude’s Visit.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. Paying Debts.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. Georgie and Jack.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. In the Summer.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. After Another Year.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. Edna Accepts.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. Edna Goes to Leighton.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. Georgie’s Secret.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. At Leighton.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. Over at Oakwood.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. The Croquet Party.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. How the Engagement Was Received.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. How They Got on at Leighton.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. Letters.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. Annie Heyford.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. The Night of the Party.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. After Annie’s Death.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. Maude and Edna Visit Uncle Phil.
  40. 40Chapter XL. Getting Ready for the Bridal.
  41. 41Chapter XLI. The Burglar.
  42. 42Chapter XLII. The Alarm.
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. Roy.
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. Last Days.
  45. 45Chapter XLV. Death at Oakwood.
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. Jack’s Marriage and Jack’s Story.
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. Roy Finds Edna.
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII. Mrs. Churchill and Edna.
  49. 49Chapter XLIX. The Wedding.
  50. 50Chapter L. Conclusion.

About this edition

Author
Mary Jane Holmes
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
394 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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