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Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft
The story revolves around the Mohun family, particularly focusing on the eldest daughter, Eleanor, as she navigates the duties and responsibilities that come with family life while also dealing with personal sacrifices and the dynamics with her younger sisters, Lilias, Emily, and Jane.
"Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft" by Charlotte M. Yonge is a novel. The story revolves around the Mohun family, particularly focusing on the eldest daughter, Eleanor, as she navigates the duties and responsibilities that come with family life while also dealing with personal sacrifices and the dynamics with her younger sisters, Lilias, Emily, and Jane.
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‘Return, and in the daily round Of duty and of love, Thou best wilt find that patient faith That lifts the soul above.’
Eleanor Mohun was the eldest child of a gentleman of old family, and good property, who had married the sister of his friend and neighbour, the Marquis of Rotherwood. The first years of her life were marked by few events. She was a quiet, steady, useful girl, finding her chief pleasure in nursing and teaching her brothers and sisters, and her chief annoyance in her mamma’s attempts to make her a fine lady; but before she had reached her nineteenth year she had learnt to know real anxiety and sorrow. Her mother, after suffering much from grief at the loss of her two brothers, fell into so alarming a state of health, that her husband was obliged immediately to hurry her away to Italy, leaving the younger children under the care of a governess, and the elder boys at school, while Eleanor alone accompanied them.
Their absence lasted nearly three years, and during the last winter, an engagement commenced between Eleanor and Mr. Francis Hawkesworth, rather to the surprise of Lady Emily, who wondered that he had been able to discover the real worth veiled beneath a formal and retiring manner, and to admire features which, though regular, had a want of light and animation, which diminished their beauty even more than the thinness and compression of the lips, and the very pale gray of the eyes.
Contents
- 01Chapter I the Elder Sister
- 02Chapter II the New Court
- 03Chapter III the New Principle
- 04Chapter IV Honest Phyl
- 05Chapter V Village Gossip
- 06Chapter VI the New Friend
- 07Chapter VII Sir Maurice
- 08Chapter VIII the Brothers
- 09Chapter IX the Wasp
- 10Chapter X Cousin Rotherwood
- 11Chapter XI Dancing
- 12Chapter XII the Fever
- 13Chapter XIII a Curiosity Map
- 14Chapter XIV Christmas
- 15Chapter XV Minor Misfortunes
- 16Chapter XVI Vanity and Vexation
- 17Chapter XVII Little Agnes
- 18Chapter XVIII Double, Double Toil and Trouble
- 19Chapter XIX the Rector’s Illness
- 20Chapter XX the Little Nephew
- 21Chapter XXI Charity Begins at Home
- 22Chapter XXII the Baronial Court
- 23Chapter XXIII Joys and Sorrows
- 24Chapter XXIV Love’s Labour Lost
- 25Chapter XXV the Thirtieth of July
- 26Chapter XXVI the Crisis
- 27Chapter XXVII 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
- 280 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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