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Magnum Bonum; or, Mother Carey's Brood
The narrative centers around the lives of the Brownlow family, particularly focusing on Joseph Brownlow, his widowed mother, and a young orphan girl named Caroline Allen, who becomes a significant part of their household and ultimately a member of the family.
"Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood" by Charlotte M. Yonge is a fictional novel. The narrative centers around the lives of the Brownlow family, particularly focusing on Joseph Brownlow, his widowed mother, and a young orphan girl named Caroline Allen, who becomes a significant part of their household and ultimately a member of the family.
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“Mother, you could do a great kindness.”
“If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath’s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and they don’t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers’ daughters, and has no home at all, and they must go away to have the house purified. They can’t take her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.”
“Allen. The cry was always for Miss Allen when the sick girls wanted to be amused.”
“Allen! I wonder if it can be the same child as the one Robert was interested about. You don’t remember, my dear. It was the year you were at Vienna, when one of Robert’s brother-officers died on the voyage out to China, and he sent home urgent letters for me to canvass right and left for the orphan’s election. You know Robert writes much better than he speaks, and I copied over and over again his account of the poor young man to go with the cards. ‘Caroline Otway Allen, aged seven years, whole orphan, daughter of Captain Allen, l07th Regiment;’ yes, that’s the way it ran.”
Contents
- 01Magnum Bonum
- 02Or, Mother Carey’s Brood
- 03Chapter I.—Joe Brownlow’s Fancy.
- 04Chapter II. — the Chickens.
- 05Chapter III. — the White Slate.
- 06Chapter IV. — the Stray Chickens.
- 07Chapter V. — Brains and No Brains.
- 08Chapter VI. — Enchanted Ground.
- 09Chapter VII. — the Colonel’s Chickens.
- 10Chapter VIII. — the Folly.
- 11Chapter IX. — Flights.
- 12Chapter X. — Ellen’s Magnum Bonums.
- 13Chapter XI. — Undine.
- 14Chapter XII. — King Midas.
- 15Chapter XIII. — the Rival Heiresses.
- 16Chapter XIV. — Pumping Away.
- 17Chapter XV. — the Belforest Magnum Bonum.
- 18Chapter XVI. — Possession.
- 19Chapter XVII. — Popinjay Parlour.
- 20Chapter XVIII. — an Offer for Magnum Bonum.
- 21Chapter XIX. — the Snowy Winding-Sheet.
- 22Chapter XX. — a Race.
- 23Chapter XXI. — an Act of Independence.
- 24Chapter XXII. — Shutting the Stable Door.
- 25Chapter XXIII. — the Lost Treasure.
- 26Chapter XXIV. — the Angel Mountain.
- 27Chapter XXV. — the Land of Afternoon.
- 28Chapter XXVI. Moonshine.
- 29Chapter XXVII. — Bluebeard’s Closet.
- 30Chapter XXVIII. — the Turn of the Wheel.
- 31Chapter XXIX. — Friends and Unfriends.
- 32Chapter XXX. — as Weel Off as Aye Wagging
- 33Chapter XXXI. — Slack Tide.
- 34Chapter XXXII. — the Cost.
- 35Chapter XXXIII. — Bitter Farewells.
- 36Chapter XXXIV. — Blighted Beings.
- 37Chapter XXXV. The Phantom Blackcock of Kilnaught.
- 38Chapter XXXVI. — of No Consequence.
- 39Chapter XXXVII. — the Traveller’s Joy.
- 40Chapter XXXVIII. — the Trust Fulfilled.
- 41Chapter XXXIX. — the Truant.
- 42Chapter XL. — Evil Out of Good.
- 43Chapter XLI. — Good Out of Evil.
- 44Chapter XLII. — Disenchanted.
About this edition
- Author
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 455 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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