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Title: Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I)
or, The Clue of Life

Author: Charlotte M. Yonge

Posting Date: July 19, 2009 [EBook #4235]
Release Date: July, 2003
First Posted: December 13, 2001

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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DYNEVOR TERRACE:

OR

THE CLUE OF LIFE.

BY

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.

THE AUTHOR OF 'THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE'

CONTENTS

I. CHARLOTTE.
II. AN OLD SCHOOLMISTRESS.
III. LOUIS LE DEBONNAIRE.
IV. THISTLE-DOWN.
V. THE TWO MINISTERS.
VI. FAREWELLS.
VII. GOSSAMER.
VIII. A TRUANT DISPOSITION.
IX. THE FAMILY COMPACT.
X. THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR.
XI. A HALTING PROPOSAL.
XII. CHILDE ROLAND.
XIII. FROSTY, BUT KINDLY.
XIV. NEW INHABITANTS.
XV. MOTLEY THE ONLY WEAR.
XVI. THE FRUIT OF THE CHRISTMAS-TREE
XVII. THE RIVALS.
XVIII. REST FOR THE WEARY.
XIX. MOONSHINE.
XX. THE FANTASTIC VISCOUNT.
XXI. THE HERO OF THE BARRICADES.
XXII. BURGOMASTERS AND GREAT ONE-EYERS.

VOLUME I

Who wisdom's sacred prize would win,
Must with the fear of God begin;
Immortal praise and heavenly skill
Have they who know and do His will.
New Version.

CHAPTER I.

CHARLOTTE.

Farewell rewards and fairies,
Good housewives now may say,
For now foul sluts in dairies
May fare as well as they.
BP. CORBET.

An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chesnut stood in the middle of a
dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some
pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of
seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and
her tight, plain cap tresses of flaxen hair that many a beauty might
have envied, was banging a cocoa-nut mat, chanting by way of
accompaniment in a sort of cadence--

'I have found out a gift for my fur,
I have found where the wood-pigeons breed;
B