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The Long Vacation

Charlotte M. Yonge

The story revolves around the lives of the Underwood family and their companions, exploring themes of family dynamics, personal growth, and the complexities of adult responsibilities as the characters navigate the passage of time and the events that shape their lives.

"The Long Vacation" by Charlotte M. Yonge is a novel. The story revolves around the lives of the Underwood family and their companions, exploring themes of family dynamics, personal growth, and the complexities of adult responsibilities as the characters navigate the passage of time and the events that shape their lives.

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“Ah! my Gerald boy! There you are! Quite well?”

Gerald Underwood, of slight delicate mould, with refined, transparent-looking features, and with hair and budding moustache too fair for his large dark eyes, came bounding up the broad stair, to the embrace of the aunt who stood at the top, a little lame lady supported by an ivory-headed staff. Her deep blue eyes, dark eyebrows, and sweet though piquant face were framed by the straight crape line of widowhood, whence a soft white veil hung on her shoulders.

“Cherie sweet! You are well? And the Vicar?”

“Getting on. How are they all at Vale Leston?”

“All right. Your mother got to church on Easter-day.” This was to Anna Vanderkist, a young person of the plump partridge order, and fair, rosy countenance ever ready for smiles and laughter.

“Here are no end of flowers,” as the butler brought a hamper.

“Daffodils! Oh!—and anemones! How delicious! I must take Clement a bunch of those dear white violets. I know where they came from,” and she held them to her lips. “Some primroses too, I hope.”

“A few; but the main body, tied up in tight bunches like cauliflowers, I dropped at Kensington Palace Gardens.”

“A yellow primrose is much more than a yellow primrose at present,” said Mrs. Grinstead, picking out the few spared from political purposes. “Clement will want his button-hole, to greet Lance.”

“So he is advanced to button-holes! And Lance?”

Contents

  1. 01Preface
  2. 02The Long Vacation
  3. 03Chapter I. — a Chapter of Retrospect
  4. 04Chapter II. — a Chapter of Twaddle
  5. 05Chapter III. — Darby and Joan
  6. 06Chapter IV. — Slum, Sea, or Season
  7. 07Chapter V. — a Happy Sprite
  8. 08Chapter VI. — St. Andrew’s Rock
  9. 09Chapter VII. — the Hope of Vanderkist
  10. 10Chapter VIII. — the Mouse-Trap
  11. 11Chapter IX. — Out Beyond
  12. 12Chapter X. — Noblesse Oblige
  13. 13Chapter XI. — Heroes and Hero-Worship
  14. 14Chapter XII. — the Little Butterfly
  15. 15Chapter XIII. — Two Sides of a Shield Again
  16. 16Chapter XIV. — Butterfly’s Nectar
  17. 17Chapter XV. — a Poor Foreign Widow
  18. 18Chapter XVI. — “See, the Conquering Hero Comes”
  19. 19Chapter XVII. — Excluded
  20. 20Chapter XVIII. — the Evil Star
  21. 21Chapter XIX. — Shop-Dressing
  22. 22Chapter XX. — French Leave
  23. 23Chapter XXI. — the Masque
  24. 24Chapter XXII. — the Regatta
  25. 25Chapter XXIII. — Illuminations
  26. 26Chapter XXIV. — Counsels of Patience
  27. 27Chapter XXV. — Desdichado
  28. 28Chapter XXVI. — the Silent Star
  29. 29Chapter XXVII. — the Red Mantle
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII. — Rocca Marina
  31. 31Chapter XXIX. — Rowena and Her Rival
  32. 32Chapter XXX. — Dreams and Nightingales
  33. 33Chapter XXXI. — the Cold Shoulder
  34. 34Chapter XXXII. — the Test of Day-Dreams
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII. — a Missionary Wedding
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV. — Righted

About this edition

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

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