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Frances Kane's Fortune

L. T. Meade

The story revolves around Frances Kane, a practical and determined young woman, who manages her father's dilapidated estate while grappling with a sense of duty and the complexities of her heartrending past.

"Frances Kane’s Fortune" by L. T. Meade is a novel. The story revolves around Frances Kane, a practical and determined young woman, who manages her father's dilapidated estate while grappling with a sense of duty and the complexities of her heartrending past.

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It was a very sunny June day, and a girl was pacing up and down a sheltered path in an old-fashioned garden. She walked slowly along the narrow graveled walk, now and then glancing at the carefully trimmed flowers of an elaborate ribbon border at her right, and stopping for an instant to note the promise of fruit on some well-laden peach and pear-trees. The hot sun was pouring down almost vertical rays on her uncovered head, but she was either impervious to its power, or, like a salamander, she rejoiced in its fierce noonday heat.

"We have a good promise of peaches and pears," she said to herself; "I will see that they are sold this year. We will just keep a few for my father to eat, but the rest shall go. It is a pity Watkins spends so much time over the ribbon border; it does not pay, and it uses up so many of our bedding plants."

She frowned slightly as she said these last words, and put up her hand to shade her face from the sun, as though for the first time she noticed its dazzling light and heat.

"Now I will go and look to the cabbages," she said, continuing her meditations aloud. "And those early pease ought to be fit for pulling now. Oh! is that you, Watkins? Were you calling me? I wanted to speak to you about this border. You must not use up so many geraniums and calceolarias here. I don't mind the foliage plants, but the others cost too much, and can not be made use of to any profit in a border of this kind."

Contents

  1. 01Frances Kane's Fortune.
  2. 02Chapter I.
  3. 03The Letter.
  4. 04Chapter II.
  5. 05"This Is Wonderful."
  6. 06Chapter III.
  7. 07After Ten Years.
  8. 08Chapter IV.
  9. 09Fluff.
  10. 10Chapter V.
  11. 11"Frances, You Are Changed!"
  12. 12Chapter VI.
  13. 13"I Will Not Sell the Firs."
  14. 14Chapter VII.
  15. 15No Other Way.
  16. 16Chapter VIII.
  17. 17For the Sake of Three Hundred a Year.
  18. 18Chapter IX.
  19. 19Under the Elms.
  20. 20Chapter X.
  21. 21"Fluff Will Suit Him Best."
  22. 22Chapter XI.
  23. 23Edge Tools.
  24. 24Chapter XII.
  25. 25The Cunning Little Mouse.
  26. 26Chapter XIII.
  27. 27"Little Girls Imagine Things."
  28. 28Chapter XIV.
  29. 29"I Hate the Squire."
  30. 30Chapter XV.
  31. 31"Mr. Lover."
  32. 32Chapter XVI.
  33. 33Sweetly Romantic.
  34. 34Chapter XVII.
  35. 35The Firs or Frances?
  36. 36The End.
  37. 37Monsieur the Viscount's Friend.
  38. 38A Tale in Three Chapters
  39. 39Chapter I.
  40. 40Chapter II.
  41. 41Chapter III.
  42. 42The Yew-Lane Ghosts.
  43. 43Chapter I.
  44. 44Chapter II.
  45. 45Chapter III.
  46. 46Sacred To The Memory.
  47. 47Of
  48. 48Ephraim Garnett—
  49. 49Chapter IV.
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About this edition

Author
L. T. Meade
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
210 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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