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Title: The Farringdons

Author: Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

Release Date: November 13, 2006 [EBook #19798]

Language: English

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THE FARRINGDONS
BY ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER

AUTHOR OF CONCERNING ISABEL CARNABY, A DOUBLE THREAD, ETC.

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1900
COPYRIGHT, 1900,
_All rights reserved._

DEDICATION

For all such readers as have chanced to be
Either in Mershire or in Arcady,
I write this book, that each may smile, and say,
"Once on a time I also passed that way."

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.--THE OSIERFIELD 1
II.--CHRISTOPHER 12
III.--MRS. BATESON'S TEA-PARTY 29
IV.--SCHOOL-DAYS 51
V.--THE MOAT HOUSE 70
VI.--WHIT MONDAY 90
VII.--BROADER VIEWS 114
VIII.--GREATER THAN OUR HEARTS 137
IX.--FELICIA FINDS HAPPINESS 156
X.--CHANGES 187
XI.--MISS FARRINGDON'S WILL 213
XII.--"THE DAUGHTERS OF PHILIP" 232
XIII.--CECIL FARQUHAR 249
XIV.--ON THE RIVER 272
XV.--LITTLE WILLIE 292
XVI.--THIS SIDE OF THE HILLS 306
XVII.--GEORGE FARRINGDON'S SON 325
XVIII.--THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILLS 346

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THE FARRINGDONS

CHAPTER I

THE OSIERFIELD

They herded not with soulless swine,
Nor let strange snares their path environ:
Their only pitfall was a mine--
Their pigs were made of iron.

In the middle of Sedgehill, which is in the middle of Mershire, which is
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