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Title: Hopes and Fears
scenes from the life of a spinster

Author: Charlotte M. Yonge

Release Date: July 31, 2008 [eBook #26156]

Language: English

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[Picture: Frontispiece]

HOPES AND FEARS

OR
SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A SPINSTER
BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE

[Picture: Title picture]

_ILLUSTRATED BY HERBERT GANDY_

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1899

_All rights reserved_

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

"She felt, rather than saw him watching her all _Frontispiece_
the way from the garden-gate to the wood."

"I find I can't spare you, Honora; you had better _Page_ 11
stay at the Holt for good."

"He drew the paper before him. Lucilla started _Page_ 296
to her feet."

PART I

CHAPTER I

Who ought to go then and who ought to stay!
Where do you draw an obvious border line?

_Cecil and Mary_

Among the numerous steeples counted from the waters of the Thames, in the
heart of the City, and grudged by modern economy as cumberers of the soil
of Mammon, may be remarked an abortive little dingy cupola, surmounting
two large round eyes which have evidently stared over the adjacent roofs
ever since the Fire that began at Pie-corner and ended in Pudding-lane.

Strange that the like should have been esteemed the highest walk of
architecture, and yet Honora Charlecote well remembered the days when St.
Wulstan's was her boast, so large, so clean, so light, so Grecian, so far
surpassing damp old Hiltonbury Chu