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Meadow Brook
The story introduces the character Rosa Lee, who reflects on her childhood experiences growing up in a New England farmhouse.
"Meadow Brook" by Mary Jane Holmes is a novel. The story introduces the character Rosa Lee, who reflects on her childhood experiences growing up in a New England farmhouse.
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Far away among the New England hills stands a large, old-fashioned farmhouse, around whose hearth-stone not many years agone, a band of merry, noisy children played, myself the merriest, noisiest of them all. It stood upon an eminence overlooking a broad strip of rolling meadow-land, at the extremity of which was the old grey rock, where the golden rod and sassafras grew, where the green ivy crept over the crumbling wall, and where, under the shadow of the thorn-apple tree, we built our play-houses, drinking our tea from the acorn saucers, and painting our dolls’ faces with the red juice of the poke berries, which grew there in great abundance.
Just opposite our house, and across the green meadow, was a shady grove, where, in the spring-time, the singing birds made their nests, and where, when the breath of winter was on the snow-clad hills, Lizzie, Carrie, and I, and our taller, stronger brothers dragged our sleds, dashing 10swiftly down the steep hill, and away over the ice-covered valley below. Truly, ours was a joyous childhood, and ours a happy home; for never elsewhere fell the summer’s golden sunlight so softly, and never was music sweeter than was the murmur of the dancing water-brook which ran past our door, and down the long green lane, losing itself at last in the dim old woods, which stretched away to the westward, seeming to my childish imagination the boundary line between this world and the next.
Contents
- 01Chapter I. Childhood.
- 02Chapter II. Thanksgiving.
- 03Chapter III. Cousin Will.
- 04Chapter IV. The Schoolmistress.
- 05Chapter V. Pine Hill.
- 06Chapter VI. Dr. Clayton’s Visit.
- 07Chapter VII. Dell Thompson’s Party.
- 08Chapter VIII. Close of School in Pine District.
- 09Chapter IX. Pro and Con.
- 10Chapter X. Mrs. Dr. Clayton.
- 11Chapter XI. Boston.
- 12Chapter XII. Ada Montrose.
- 13Chapter XIII. The Flight.
- 14Chapter XIV. Ten Thousand Dollars.
- 15Chapter XV. The Old Homestead.
- 16Chapter XVI. “Out West.”
- 17Chapter XVII. The Dark Man.
- 18Chapter XVIII. The Death of the Drunkard.
- 19Chapter XIX. The Death of the Righteous.
- 20Chapter XX. Going South.
- 21Chapter XXI. Uncle Dick.
- 22Chapter XXII. Ada.
- 23Chapter XXIII. Dr. Clayton.
- 24Chapter XXIV. The Crisis.
- 25Chapter XXV. The Angel of the Pines.
- 26Chapter XXVI. Return.
- 27Chapter XXVII. Light.
- 28Chapter XXVIII. The Chase.
- 29Chapter XXIX. Human Nature.
- 30Chapter XXX. “The Southern Planter’s Northern Bride.”
- 31Chapter XXXI. Sunny Bank.
- 32Chapter XXXII. November 25Th.
About this edition
- Author
- Mary Jane Holmes
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 313 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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