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Charlotte M. Yonge
The Long Vacation
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066248109
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. — A CHAPTER OF RETROSPECT
CHAPTER II. — A CHAPTER OF TWADDLE
CHAPTER IV. — SLUM, SEA, OR SEASON
CHAPTER VI. — ST. ANDREW’S ROCK
CHAPTER VII. — THE HOPE OF VANDERKIST
CHAPTER VIII. — THE MOUSE-TRAP
CHAPTER XI. — HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP
CHAPTER XII. — THE LITTLE BUTTERFLY
CHAPTER XIII. — TWO SIDES OF A SHIELD AGAIN
CHAPTER XIV. — BUTTERFLY’S NECTAR
CHAPTER XV. — A POOR FOREIGN WIDOW
CHAPTER XVI. — “SEE, THE CONQUERING HERO COMES”
CHAPTER XVIII. — THE EVIL STAR
CHAPTER XXIII. — ILLUMINATIONS
CHAPTER XXIV. — COUNSELS OF PATIENCE
CHAPTER XXVI. — THE SILENT STAR
CHAPTER XXVII. — THE RED MANTLE
CHAPTER XXVIII. — ROCCA MARINA
CHAPTER XXIX. — ROWENA AND HER RIVAL
CHAPTER XXX. — DREAMS AND NIGHTINGALES
CHAPTER XXXI. — THE COLD SHOULDER
CHAPTER XXXII. — THE TEST OF DAY-DREAMS
CHAPTER XXXIII. — A MISSIONARY WEDDING
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 after-fates 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 changed.
Thus it is with the writers of fiction. The young write in full sympathy with, as well as for, the young, they have a pensive satisfaction in feeling and depicting the full pathos of a tragedy, and on the other hand they delight in their own mirth, and fully share it with the beings of their imagination, or they work out great questions with the unhesitating decision of their youth.
But those who write in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. Their affections and comprehension are with the fathers, mothers, and aunts; they dread, rather than seek, piteous scenes, and they have learnt that there are two sides to a question, that there are many stages in human life, and that the success or failure of early enthusiasm leaves a good deal more yet to come.
Thus the vivid fancy passes away, which the young are carried along with, and the older feel refreshed by; there is still a sense of experience, and a pleasure in tracing the perspective from