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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Maidens' Lodge, by Emily Sarah Holt This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Author: Emily Sarah Holt Illustrator: H.W. Petherick Release Date: April 27, 2007 [EBook #21235] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAIDENS' LODGE *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (in the Reign of Queen Anne) By Emily Sarah Holt ________________________________________________________________________ The story opens in 1712, and is a story of the habits, customs, loves and hates of a gentle family of those days. We pay particular attention to two young women, Rhoda and Phoebe. Of course your reviewer never did live in those days, but the style of life of these minor grandees seems to ring true, as one would expect of this skilled author. As with her other historical novels, the reader seems to feel pulled into the contemporary scene of those days and that class: their foolish airs and graces, their ambition, in most cases, to marry at or above their "station". Amid a welter of other minor grandees appears one Mr Welles, who is said to be well placed with an income of three thousand pounds a year, to be compared with one of the players in the story, a curate with 21 pounds a year with which to bring up his large brood. But he turns out to be greedy, and makes a bid for one of the two young women, who, he imagines, is to inherit a large and valuable estate. But he has made a mistake, and much of the latter part of the book deals with the way in which he tries to recover his position, and is, of course, rebuffed. NH ________________________________________________________________________ THE MAIDENS' LODGE NONE OF SELF AND ALL OF THEE, (IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE) BY EMILY SARAH HOLT CHAPTER ONE. PHOEBE ARRIVES AT WHITE-LADIES. "The sailing of a cloud hath Providence to its pilot." _Martin Farquhar Tupper_. In the handsome parlour of Cressingham Abbey, commonly called White-Ladies, on a dull afternoon in January, 1712, sat Ma
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