The Long Vacation
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125
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English
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Documents
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2010
Écrit par
Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publié par
unsu
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125
pages
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English
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Documents
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2010
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gbn241: The Long Vacation, Charlotte M. Yonge. Sandra Laythorpe . 1895p. 5/16/2002. ok.
This Project Gutenberg Etext of The Long Vacation, by Charlotte M. Yonge, was prepared by Sandra Laythorpe, laythorpe@tiscali.co.uk. A web page for Charlotte M Yonge may be found at www.menorot.com/cmyonge.htm.
THE LONG VACATION
BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE
How the children leave us, and no traces Linger of that smiling angel-band, Gone, for ever gone, and in their places Weary men and anxious women stand. ADELAIDE A. PROCTOR
PREFACE
If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods. Continuations are proverbially failures, and yet it is perhaps a consequence of the writer's realization of characters that some seem as if they could not be parted with, and must be carried on in the mind, and not only have their afterfates described, but their minds and opinions under the modifications of advancing years and altered circumstances. Turner and other artists have been known literally to see colours in absolutely different hues as they grew older, and so no doubt it is with thinkers. The outlines may be the same, the tints are insensibly modified and altered, and the effect thus far ...
This Project Gutenberg Etext of The Long Vacation, by Charlotte M. Yonge, was prepared by Sandra Laythorpe, laythorpe@tiscali.co.uk. A web page for Charlotte M Yonge may be found at www.menorot.com/cmyonge.htm.
THE LONG VACATION
BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE
How the children leave us, and no traces Linger of that smiling angel-band, Gone, for ever gone, and in their places Weary men and anxious women stand. ADELAIDE A. PROCTOR
PREFACE
If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods. Continuations are proverbially failures, and yet it is perhaps a consequence of the writer's realization of characters that some seem as if they could not be parted with, and must be carried on in the mind, and not only have their afterfates described, but their minds and opinions under the modifications of advancing years and altered circumstances. Turner and other artists have been known literally to see colours in absolutely different hues as they grew older, and so no doubt it is with thinkers. The outlines may be the same, the tints are insensibly modified and altered, and the effect thus far ...
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08 décembre 2010
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Langue
English
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