Hopes and Fears - or, scenes from the life of a spinster

Hopes and Fears, by Charlotte M. Yonge
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Title: Hopes and Fears scenes from the life of a spinster Author: Charlotte M. Yonge
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HOPES AND FEARS
OR
SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A SPINSTER
BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE
ILLUSTRATED BY HERBERT GANDY
London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMP ANY 1899
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
“She felt, rather than saw him watching her all the way from the garden-gate to the wood.” Frontispiece “I find I can’t spare you, Honora; you had better stay at the Holt for good.” “He drew the paper before him. Lucilla started to her feet.”
p. i
Page 11 Page 296
PART I
CHAPTER I
Who ought to go then and who ought to stay! Where do you draw an obvious border line?
p. 1
Cecil and Mary
Among the numerous steeples counted from the waters of the Thames, in the heart of the City, and grudged by modern economy as cumberers of the soil of ...