Writer: Charlotte Mary Yonge (page 2)

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1912 Macmillan edition. THE CAGED LION by Charlotte M. Yonge PREFACE When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch

Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE ARMOURER’S PRENTICES PREFACE I have attempted here to sketch citizen life in the early Tudor days, aided therein by Stowe’s Survey of London, supplemented by Mr. Loftie’s excellent history, and Dr. Burton’s English Merchants. Stowe gives a full account of the relations of apprentices to their masters; though

Scanned a proofed by Sandra Laythorpe, menorot@menorot.com Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M Yonge CHAPTER I. ST. AMBROSE’S CHOIR. ‘For be it known That their saint’s honour is their own.’–SCOTT. The town of Micklethwayte was rising and thriving. There were salubrious springs which an enterprising doctor had lately brought into notice. The firm of Greenleaf and

Photograph, by Charlotte M Yonge, was prepared by Sandra Laythorpe. A web page about Charlotte M Yonge may be found at www.menorot.com/cmyonge.htm. MY YOUNG ALCIDES A FADED PHOTOGRAPH by Charlotte M Yonge PREFACE Ideas have a tyrannous power of insisting on being worked out, even when one fears they may be leading in a track

Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk MORE BYWORDS Contents: The Price of Blood The Cat of Cat Copse De Facto and De Jure Sigbert’s Guerdon The Beggar’s Legacy A Review of the Nieces Come to Her Kingdom Mrs. Batseyes Chops THE PRICE OF BLOOD Ab ira et odio, et omni mala voluntate, Libera nos, Domine.

Produced by Doug Levy LITTLE LUCY’S WONDERFUL GLOBE by Charlotte M. Yonge “Young fingers idly roll The mimic earth or trace In picture bright of blue and gold Each other circling chase”–KEBLE CONTENTS. Chapter I. Mother Bunch. Chapter II. Visitors from the South Seas. Chapter III. Italy. Chapter IV. Greenland. Chapter V. Tyrol. Chapter VI.

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slaythorpe@cwcome.net. A web page for Miss Charlotte M Yonge is published at www.menorot.com/cmyonge.htm Heartsease or Brother’s Wife by Charlotte M. Yonge PART I And Maidens call them Love in Idleness. Midsummer Night’s Dream CHAPTER 1 There are none of England’s daughters that bear a prouder presence. ***** And a kingly blood sends glances up, her

FRIARSWOOD POST-OFFICE CHAPTER I–THE STRANGE LAD ‘Goodness! If ever I did see such a pig!’ said Ellen King, as she mounted the stairs. ‘I wouldn’t touch him with a pair of tongs!’ ‘Who?’ said a voice from the bedroom. ‘Why, that tramper who has just been in to buy a loaf! He is a perfect

This etext was produced from the 1902 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk COUNTESS KATE by Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER I. “There, I’ve done every bit I can do! I’m going to see what o’clock it is.” “I heard it strike eleven just now.” “Sylvia, you’ll tip up! What a tremendous stretch!”