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Chantry House

Charlotte M. Yonge

The story revolves around the Winslow family, particularly focusing on the narrator, Edward Winslow, and his siblings as they navigate life from their childhood in London to the unexpected inheritance of Chantry House, a secluded estate in the countryside.

"Chantry House" by Charlotte M. Yonge is a novel. The story revolves around the Winslow family, particularly focusing on the narrator, Edward Winslow, and his siblings as they navigate life from their childhood in London to the unexpected inheritance of Chantry House, a secluded estate in the countryside.

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‘And if it be the heart of man Which our existence measures, Far longer is our childhood’s span Than that of manly pleasures.

‘For long each month and year is then, Their thoughts and days extending, But months and years pass swift with men To time’s last goal descending.’

The united force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning, makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more.

To explain all, I must go back to a time long before the morning when my father astonished us all by exclaiming, ‘Poor old James Winslow! So Chantry House is came to us after all!’ Previous to that event I do not think we were aware of the existence of that place, far less of its being a possible inheritance, for my parents would never have permitted themselves or their family to be unsettled by the notion of doubtful contingencies.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. A Nursery Prose.
  2. 02Chapter II. Schoolroom Days.
  3. 03Chapter III. Win and Slow.
  4. 04Chapter IV. Ubi Lapsus, Quid Feci.
  5. 05Chapter V. A Helping Hand.
  6. 06Chapter VI. The Valley of Humiliation.
  7. 07Chapter VII. The Inheritance.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. The Old House.
  9. 09Chapter IX. Rats.
  10. 10Chapter X. Our Tuneful Choir.
  11. 11Chapter XI. ‘They Fordys.’
  12. 12Chapter XII. Mrs. Sophia’s Feud.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. A Scrape.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. The Mullion Chamber.
  15. 15Chapter XV. Rational Theories.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. Cat Language.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. The Siege of Hillside.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. The Portrait.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. The White Feather.
  20. 20Chapter XX. Veni, Vidi, Vici.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. The Outside of the Courtship.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. Bristol Diamonds.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. Quicksands.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. After the Tempest.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. Holiday-Making.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. C. Morbus, Esq.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. Peter’s Thunderbolt.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. A Squire of Dames.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. Love and Obedience.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. Una or Duessa.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. Facilis Descensus.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. Waly, Waly.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. The River’s Bank.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. Not in Vain.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. Griff’s Bird.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. Slack Water.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. Outward Bound.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. Too Late.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. A Purpose.
  40. 40Chapter XL. The Midnight Chase.
  41. 41Chapter XLI. Wills Old and New.
  42. 42Chapter XLII. On a Spree.
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. The Price.
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. Paying the Cost.
  45. 45Chapter XLV. Achieved.
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. Restitution.
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. The Fordyce Story.
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII. The Last Discovery.
  49. 49Remarks.
  50. 50Reply.

About this edition

Author
Charlotte M. Yonge
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
315 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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