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Madeline
Set in a small town in New England, it follows the life of Madeline Clyde, a young girl facing significant challenges due to her family's financial struggles and her desire to help them.
"Madeline" by Mary Jane Holmes is a novel. Set in a small town in New England, it follows the life of Madeline Clyde, a young girl facing significant challenges due to her family's financial struggles and her desire to help them.
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Twenty-five years ago the people of Devonshire, a little town among the New England hills, had the reputation of being rather quarrelsome. Sometimes about meek, gentle Mrs. Tiverton, the minister’s wife, whose manner of housekeeping, or style of dress, did not exactly suit them; sometimes about the minister himself, who vainly imagined that if he preached three sermons a week, attended the Wednesday evening prayer-meeting, the Thursday evening sewing society, visited all the sick, and gave to every beggar that called at his door, besides superintending the Sunday-school, he was earning his salary of six hundred per year.
8Sometimes, and that not rarely, the quarrel crept into the choir, and then for two or three Sundays it was all in vain that Mr. Tiverton read the psalm and hymn, and cast troubled glances toward the vacant seats of his refractory singers. There was no one to respond, except poor Mr. Hodges, who usually selected something in a minor key, and pitched it so high that few could follow him; while Mrs. Captain Simpson—whose daughter was the organist—rolled her eyes at her next neighbor, or fanned herself furiously in token of her disgust.
Contents
- 01Chapter I. The Examining Committee.
- 02Chapter II. Madeline Clyde.
- 03Chapter III. The Examination.
- 04Chapter IV. Grandpa Markham.
- 05Chapter V. The Result.
- 06Chapter VI. Convalescence.
- 07Chapter VII. The Drive.
- 08Chapter VIII. Shadowings of What Was to Be.
- 09Chapter IX. The Decision.
- 10Chapter X. At Aikenside.
- 11Chapter XI. Guy at Home.
- 12Chapter XII. Lucy’s Letter.
- 13Chapter XIII. Gossip.
- 14Chapter XIV. Maddy and Lucy.
- 15Chapter XV. The Holidays.
- 16Chapter XVI. The Doctor and Maddy.
- 17Chapter XVII. Womanhood.
- 18Chapter XVIII. The Burden.
- 19Chapter XIX. Life at the Cottage.
- 20Chapter XX. The Burden Grows Heavier.
- 21Chapter XXI. The Interval Before the Marriage.
- 22Chapter XXII. Before the Bridal.
- 23Chapter XXIII. Lucy.
- 24Chapter XXIV. Finale.
About this edition
- Author
- Mary Jane Holmes
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 235 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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