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...Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...eak north; and above all there is Margaret, dear tender Margaret, almost a queen, as a queen she will be one day. Oh! I almost feel her embrace.’ ‘It ... ...castles, we shall never get princely husbands like our sisters. I might be Queen of Beauty, I doubt me whether you are fair enough, Eleanor.’ ‘Oh, tha... ... Princesses try than by waiting here at home.’ ‘And James will soon have a queen of his own to guide him,’ added Eleanor. ‘I’ll no quit Jamie or the w... ... Madame Yolande, with his father’s goodwill, for Alsace and T yrol be his, mountains that might be in our ain Hielands, they tell me.’ ‘Methougnt,’ sa... ...stance?’ ‘Save that this land is as flat as a bannock, I’d have said ’twas mountains.’ ‘Mountains they are, young man!’ said Madame de Ste. Petronelle... ... wood by a tangled path, then over a wide moor covered with heather, those mountains, which had at first excited the old lady’s alarm, growing more di...
...nge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Caged Lion in Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...iversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e THE CAGED LION by Charlotte M. Yonge PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE WHEN THE... ... to be identi- fied. Readers of Tyler’s ‘Henry V.,’ of Agnes Strickland’s ‘Queens,’ Tytler’s ‘Scotland,’ and Barante’s ‘Histoire de Bourgogne’ will be... ... found in Monstrelet of old, and now in Barante; though justice to her and Queen Isabeau compels me to state that the incident of the ring is wholly f... ...e before the Parliamentary Commission, which shows what it was intended by Queen Philippa to have been to the 5 Yo n g e river-side population, and w... ...d.’ ‘It touches her deeply!’ exclaimed the Duchess. ‘Ah! to see her in the mountains teaching the wild men to say their Aye, and to wear culottes, the... ....’ ‘So it may be yet,’ said James. ‘Sickness alters everything, and raises mountains before us.’ ‘It may be so,’ said Henry; ‘and yet—Jerusalem! Jerus...
...THE HERD BOY AND HIS HERMIT By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Classics Series Publictaion The Herd Boy A... ...E A Penn State Classics Series Publictaion The Herd Boy And His Hermit by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Herd Boy And His Hermit by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classic... ...ught her house would be safer if I were away at the cell at Greystone when Queen Margaret and the Red Rose came north.’ ‘ And is that the way they kee... ... g e Meantime the snow had ceased—it was but a scud of early autumn on the mountains—the sun came out with bright slanting beams before his setting, t... ...hat there were some of those traitorous Lancastrian folk lurking about the mountains and fells? That rogue had the bearing of a man-at-arms, far more ... ...ared monastic houses. Anne St. John had been sent thither at the time when Queen Margaret was making her attempt in the north, where the city of York ... ...e red-handed House of Clifford is lurking here, on the look- out to favour Queen Margaret and her son. Couldst thou put us on the scent, King Edward w... ...o wander away upon the moors, watch the lights and shadows on the wondrous mountains, or dream on the banks of the river, by which he could make his w...
...HENRIETTA’S WISH; OR, DOMINEERING by Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Henr... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication Henrietta ’s Wish; or, Domineering by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity.... ...electronic transmission, in any way. Henrietta ’s Wish; or, Domineering by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...om London, because old Lady Susan has not been well. And only think, Fred, Queen Bee says there is a very nice house to be let close to the village, a... ...ndon and seeing so many people as she does.” “I never saw anyone so like a queen,” said Fred. “No, nor anyone so beautiful, though she is so pale and ... ... was doing it all for the best.” “And,” proceeded Henrietta, “I think, and Queen Bee thinks, that this perpetual staying on at Rocksand was more owing... ...ou are Berengaria, coming to see King Richard when he was ‘old- man-of-the-mountains.’” “No, no,” cried Fred, “stick to the Queen Eleanor scene. We wi...
...A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS BY CHARLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Bo... ... is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS BY CHARLOTTE M YONGE PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE AS THE MO... ...onathan had taken place, when Saul was hunting him like a partridge on the mountains on the one side, and the Philistines had nearly taken his life on... ...alled Gedrosia, and now Mekhran. It was a most dismal tract. Above towered mountains of reddish-brown bare stone, tree- less and without verdure, the ... ... But the old Mattathias could not long bear the rude wild life in the cold mountains, and he soon died. First he called all his five sons, and bade th... ...igh rank and consideration in the Burgundian kingdom, whence the Christian Queen Clotilda had come; and even after the Burgundians had been sub- dued ... ...urder. However, there was no mercy for him; and, by the express command of Queen Agnes, after he had been bound upon one wheel, and his limbs broken b... ...n Deeds she should be found there, and fall under the cruel revenge of the Queen, telling her that thus it would be possible to increase his suffering... ...s, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm To return to the Charlotte M Yonge page, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/cmyonge....
...THE DOVE IN THE EAGLE’S NEST by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pulication The ... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Pulication The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classic... ...st as inferior in his foreign to what he was in his domestic policy as was Queen Elizabeth. He is chiefly familiar to us as failing to keep up his aut... ...a tower, and a guardian angel then summons Theurdank to his union with his Queen. No doubt this reunion was the life-dream of the harassed, busy, inco... .... If there was some- thing lily-like in her drooping grace, it was not the queen- lily of the garden that she resembled, but the retiring lily of the ... ... The evening began to advance, and Christina was very weary, as the purple mountains that she had long watched with a mixture of fear and hope began t... ...ding in a wide tranquil pool as if to rest after its rough course from the mountains. Above rose, like a dark wall, crag upon crag, peak on peak, in p... ...ical observances had received a Christian colouring and adaptation. In the mountains, or around the castles, it was usually very different. The electi...
...of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication L... ...of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...ind, while they anticipate ‘Montem.’ That of 1838 was a brilliant one, for Queen Victoria, then only nineteen, and her first year of sovereignty not y... ...led in the wheel, and was on the point of being dragged under it, when the Queen, with ready presence of mind, held out her hand: he grasped it, and w... ...r long ostrich feathers, and calling to mind Chalon’s water-colours of the Queen in her early youth. He finishes the description with a quaint little ... ...o dense that I could scarcely see 30 feet before me, and the crevasses and mountains of snow loom- ing close round us looked awful. At this moment the...
...Heartsease or Brother’s Wife By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Hea... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartsease or Brother’s Wife by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. Heartsease or Brother’s Wife by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...n hills.’ ‘No, it is hard on Hampshire downs to compare them to Cumberland mountains.’ ‘But it is so sunny and beautiful,’ said the bright young bride... ... Martindale; but infinitely remote she felt from that form like an eastern queen, richly dressed, and with dark majestic beauty, whose dignity was rat... ...; then, how pretty the country, and, thereupon, Violet said it only wanted mountains to be beautiful. ‘Ah! when one has once seen a mountain one canno... ...have you alone. Why, you bonny old Greek empress, you are as jolly a gipsy queen as ever! How you will turn people’s heads! I am glad you have all tha... ...things to show you.’ ‘I was wishing to look at those drawings. Who is that queen with the cross on her arm?’ ‘St. Helena; it is a copy from a fresco b... ...y dreamily, figur- ing to herself Arthur enjoying himself on the moors and mountains, till Helvellyn’s own purple cap came to brighten her dreams. CHA...
...AbbeyChurch or Self-Control and Self-Conceit by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electonic Classics Series Publication Abbe... ...ssics Series Publication Abbeychurch, or Self-control and Self-conceit by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...transmission, in any way. Abbeychurch, or Self-control and Self-conceit by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classic... ...rk of that best artist, old Time,’ said Elizabeth; ‘it will be long before Queen Victoria’s head on the corbel at the new church is of as good a colou... ... Victoria’s head on the corbel at the new church is of as good a colour as Queen Eleanor’s at the old one, and we never shall see anything so pretty a... ...as—to hint at the possibility of Rupert’s having been lost on the Scottish mountains, blown up on the railroad, or sunk in a steam-vessel—to declare t... ...t wits should be measured by one stan- dard, like the ruffs and rapiers in Queen Elizabeth’s time, so that those found wanting might be banished, ther... ... when people have once accustomed themselves to get into a habit of making mountains of mole-hills, they cannot see anything as it really is. I though...
...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity.... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sic... ... opportunity university. 3 The Chaplet of Pearls THE CHAPLET OF PEARLS BY CHARLOTTE M.YONGE PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE IT IS THE... ...iciently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth’ will show both that the customs of the country clergy, and... ...ting her through its mazes with fatherly kindliness and condescension; but Queen Catherine, who was strongly in the interests of the Angevin branch, a... ...cing with the bridegroom. He therefore fell to the share of the Dauphiness Queen of Scots, a lovely, bright-eyed, laughing girl, who so completely fas... ...; stoop down, Ribaumont; a word with you. Y our mat- ters have gone up the mountains, as the Italians say, with mine. But never fear. Keep silence, an... ...nd pined for him as she kept her flock, made the rivulets, the brooks, the mountains re-echo with her sighs and plaints, and had wandered through the ... ...e washed, declaring that they put him in mind of his old hardy days on the mountains of Bearn. He insisted on hearing all Rayonette’s adventure in det...
...LOVE AND LIFE An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Lov... ...ONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sic... ...r. “Then it is indeed true that My Lady is one of the greatest beauties of Queen Caroline’s Court, if not the greatest?” said Harriet. “T ruly she is,... ... himself of it, and was proclaiming scraps of intelligence about the King, Queen, and Sir Robert Walpole, the character of Marshal Berwick, recently s... ...ard when he announced that a rain of blood had fallen on the Macgillicuddy mountains in Ireland, testified to by numerous respectable Protestant wit- ... ... Paul’s, the monu- ments, Ranelagh, the court ladies, may be, the King and Queen themselves; until she began to feel exhilarated and pleased at the pr... ...ays nigh, Why should I, like tim’rous bird To distant mountains fly? “Behold the wicked bend their bow, And r...
... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...rsity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e THE LONG VACATION BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE How the children leave us, and no traces Linger of that... ...tle Greek to make the pru- dent very glad that her home was on the Italian mountains. Gillian was always Mrs. Henderson’s friend, but Gillian’s mind w... ...asant—and if you had seen her, when the Merrifield children called her the Queen of the White Ants! Ivinghoe is naturally as stiff and formal as his m... ...r counter! Kalliope has been trying to keep her in order, but I’m sure the Queen of the White Ants must have been just like that when she got poor Cap... ...a year, while Cousins Fernan and Marilda go out to their farm in the Rocky Mountains.” Just then there was a little commotion, and a report came up th... ... much rather have stayed at home, except for seeing Mysie’s delight in the mountains and the blue Mediterranean, which she dimly remembered from her i...
...The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity.... ...an electronic transmission, in any way. The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ... dream, a tournament, or something of that nature, where I was victor, the queen—you know who she was—giving me her token—a Daisy Chain.” “That is why... ...rder had not a word to say, and the others were worse, for Cheviot thought Queen Elizabeth’s Earl of Leicester was Simon de Montfort; and didn’t know ... ... it may make Drakes of him? Ha! Ethel— “Oh, give us for our Kings such Queens, And for our Ducks such Drakes.” There had not been such a merr... ... Oh! Ethel, you would have been wild with delight in those places!” “Snowy mountains! Are they not like a fairy-dream to you now? You must have felt a... ...l, and make his brains rest, and his eyes delight themselves upon Scottish mountains. Thereupon came vivid descriptions of the scenery, espe- cially h... ... could not have gone on as I was. Sometimes the sight of my father, or the mountains and lakes in Scotland, or—or— things at the Grange, would bring p...
...Young Folks’ History of England By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks’ H... ...Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...an electronic transmission, in any way. Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classic... ...y be known from the Romans. Only the wild ones beyond the wall, and in the mountains, were as savage as ever, and, now and then, used to come and stea... ... the country, and drove the Britons, some up into the North, some into the mountains that rise along the West of the is- land, and some into its west ... ...e Britons, the English went on driving them back till they only kept their mountains. There they have gone on living ever since, and talking their own... ...nt a priest, whose name was Augustine, with a letter to King Ethelbert and Queen Bertha, and asked the King to listen to him. Ethelbert met Augustine ... ...re they settled the affairs of the kingdom. The king’s wife was not called queen, but lady; and what do you think lady means? It means “loaf-giver”—gi... ... the Norman conquest. But there have been no more since; and the kings and queens have gone on in one long line ever since, from William of Normandy d...
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...Magnum Bonum or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Magn... ...onic Classics Series Publication Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University.... ...ctronic transmission, in any way. Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Classic... ...d, Babie?” asked the father as the little one ran up to him. “I want to be Queen Mab, papa, but Armine wants to be Perseus with the Gorgon’s head, and... ...ut Armine. “You see she’s chained, and Bobus won’t play, and Babie will be Queen Mab—” “I suppose,” said the mother, “that it is not harder to bring Q... ...the monster, gasping frightfully, while redoubling his contortions, though Queen Mab ob- served in the most admonitory tone, touching him at the 17 Y... ...aid Jock. “When are we to have it—’Crags and Cousins,’ or ‘From Measles to Mountains’?” “I don’t want to forget everything,” said Johnny, with true Ke... ...ion in the exceeding stern- ness of the scene—the grey heaps of stone, the mountains raising their shining white summits against the blue, the dark, f... ...this, in such cold as penetrated the wooden build- ing, too high up in the mountains for the June sun as yet to have full power? The snow kept blindin...
...The Clever Woman of the F amily by Charlotte M. Y onge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Th... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classic... ...and there was no chance for even Rachel to assert herself while this small queen was in presence. Grace was devoted to infants, and there was a whole ... .... “Yes, Rosie, when you go and keep house for papa on the top of the Oural Mountains, or wherever it may be, you are to remem- ber that if Aunt Ermine... ... now he has some rather interesting em- ployment at the mines in the Oural Mountains, the first thing he has really seemed to like or care for.” “The ... ...ins, the first thing he has really seemed to like or care for.” “The Oural Mountains! that is out of reach. I wish I could see him. One might find som... ...s more than lame,” she said. “I should be better off if the fiction of the Queens of Spain were truth with me. I could not move from this chair withou... ...ave brought something of her own old world, where she was a sort of little queen in her way. It is too much to ask me to have patience with these rela...
...POEMS by CURRER, ELLIS, AND ACTON BELL (Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...ronic Classics Series Publication Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë) is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ectronic transmission, in any way. Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë), the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ... dreadful doom for Pilate,—lingering woes, In far, barbarian climes, where mountains cold Built up a solitude of trackless snows, There he and grisly ... ... chill; 57 Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë For, lone, among the mountains cold, Lie those that I have loved of old. And my heart aches, in ... ...ll-severing wave? Now, when alone, do my thoughts no longer hover Over the mountains, on that northern shore, Resting their wings where heath and fern... ...h her young lover, June. From her mother’s heart seemed loath to part That queen of bridal charms, But her father smiled on the fairest child He ever ...
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... Dumas “Richelieu, whom they hated during his lifetime and whom they now praise after his death, was even less popular than I am. Often he was driven ... ... away. The queen will never banish me, and even were I obliged to yield to the populace she would yield with me; if I fly, she will fly; and then we s... ...e obliged to defend themselves against its collectors by force of arms. They were listened to with great politeness by the duke, who held out hopes of... ...ppily, only myself in the world to care for.” “But what makes you sigh?” “My dear fellow,” replied Porthos, “to be candid with you, I am not happy.” “... ...“Send directly to Blois, Raoul; or, rather, take horse and ride immediately yourself.” Raoul bowed. “But where is Louise?” asked the comte. “I have br... ...nsieur?” said Ma- dame de Chevreuse, trying to read in Athos’s eyes. “But how can that be? You never knew her.” “Eh, madame, who knows?” said Athos. “... ...a half league they proceeded thus, the cannon-shot sounding so near that they expected at each discharge to hear the hum of the balls. At length they ... ...xon sat down, and the king, kneeling humbly before him, began his confession. Chapter 66 Remember! THE MOB HAD ALREADY assembled when the confession t... ...wear to your majesty.” “Henry,” said Charles, “call me your father.” “Father,” replied the child, “I swear to you that they shall kill me sooner than ...
...bourhood; and it was agreed that I should engage a carriage, and call upon Charlotte, with my partner and her aunt, to convey them to the ball. My com... ...e. When we arrived at the gate, the sun was setting behind the tops of the mountains. The atmo- sphere was heavy; and the ladies expressed their fears... ... courtyard to see the strangers, and to survey the carriage in which their Charlotte was to drive away. “Pray forgive me for giving you the trouble to... ...proached the youngest, a most delicious little creature. He drew back; and Charlotte, entering at the very moment, said, “Louis, shake hands with your... ...panied her last week on a visit to the Vicar of S—, a small village in the mountains, about a league hence. We ar- rived about four o’clock: Charlotte... ...take leave of him; for I took it into my head to spend a few days in these mountains, from where I now write to you. As I was walking up and down his ... ... madhouse. Now he injures no one, but talks of nothing else than kings and queens. He used to be a very good, quiet youth, and helped to maintain me; ...
...t be true?” asked the elder lady, looking straight at the pond again. “No, Charlotte,” said the younger one simply. Charlotte transferred her quiet ey... ...ess.” “I am feeling as I always feel,” Gertrude replied, in the same tone. Charlotte turned away; but she stood there a moment. Presently she looked d... ...und your elbows; you should look differently behind.” “How should I look?” Charlotte inquired. “I don’t think I can tell you,” said Gertrude, plucking... ..., who sent a brilliant young man to “announce” her; who was coming, as the Queen of Sheba came to Solomon, to pay her “respects” to quiet Mr. Wentwort... ... but woods and rivers and lakes and hori- zons adorned with bright-looking mountains. It seemed to the Baroness very wild, as I have said, and lovely;... ...ght fancy one’s self among those grand old German forests, those legendary mountains; the sort of country one sees from the windows at Shreckenstein.”...