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Beechcroft at Rockstone
The story revolves around the lives of the Merrifield family, particularly focusing on the challenges they face following an accident involving Sir Jasper Merrifield, which prompts a family dispersion and various arrangements to care for the younger members of the family.
"Beechcroft at Rockstone" by Charlotte M. Yonge is a novel. The story revolves around the lives of the Merrifield family, particularly focusing on the challenges they face following an accident involving Sir Jasper Merrifield, which prompts a family dispersion and various arrangements to care for the younger members of the family.
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‘A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always will telegraph when he is coming,’ said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some age about forty, as her elder sister, brisk and lively and some years older, came into the room.
‘No, it is not Reggie. It is from Lily. Poor Lily! Jasper—accident—Come.’
‘Poor dear Lily! Is it young Jasper or old Jasper, I wonder?’
‘If it were young Jasper she would have put Japs. I am afraid it is her husband. If so, she will be going off to him. I must catch the 11.20 train. Will you come, Ada?’
‘Oh no; I should be knocked up, and on your hands. The suspense is bad enough at home.’
‘If it is old Jasper, we shall see in the paper to-day. I will send it down to you from the station. Supposing it is Sir Jasper, and she wants to go out to him, we must take in some of the children.’
‘Oh! Dear little Primrose would be nice enough, but what should we do with that Halfpenny woman? If we had the other girls, I suppose they would be at school all day; but surely some might go to Beechcroft. And mind, Jane, I will not have you overtasking yourself! Do not take any of them without having Gillian to help you. That I stipulate.’
Jane Mohun seemed as if she did not hear as these sentences were uttered at intervals, while she stood dashing off postcards at her davenport. Then she said, on her way to the door—
Contents
- 01Chapter I. — a Dispersion
- 02Chapter II. — Rockquay
- 03Chapter III. — Perpetual Motion
- 04Chapter IV. — the Queen of the White Ants
- 05Chapter V. — Marbles
- 06Chapter VI. — Single Misfortunes Never Come Alone
- 07Chapter VII. — an Empty Nest
- 08Chapter VIII. — Gillian’s Pupil
- 09Chapter IX. — Gauging Ajee
- 10Chapter X. — Aut Caesar Aut Nihil
- 11Chapter XI. — Lady Merrifield’s Christmas Letter-Bag
- 12Chapter XII. — Transformation
- 13Chapter XIII. — St. Valentine’s Day
- 14Chapter XIV. — the Partner
- 15Chapter XV. — the Rocks of Rockstone
- 16Chapter XVI. — Vanished
- 17Chapter XVII. — ‘They Come, They Come’
- 18Chapter XVIII. — Father and Mother
- 19Chapter XIX. — the Knight and the Dragon
- 20Chapter XX. — Ivinghoe Terrace
- 21Chapter XXI. — Beauty and the Beast
- 22Chapter XXII. — the Maiden All Forlorn
- 23Chapter XXIII. — Fangs
- 24Chapter XXIV. — Conclusion
About this edition
- Author
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 274 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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