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In Dropmore Beeches, near Beddington, county of Surrey, stands a red brick mansion, in the Gothic style, known as Parksides. It is situated on the outskirts of an estate of forty acres, comprised of a few acres of cover, and, for the rest, of shrubberies, meadow-land, and a wi...
By the time that Phoebe was eighteen years of age, Jeremiah Pamflett was firmly established in Miser Farebrother's office in London. In the miser's shrewd eyes he had justified...
3. CHAPTER III.At the appointed hour a cart drew up at the gates of Parksides, in which, in addition to the driver, were Miser Farebrother and his wife and child. Tom Barley was waiting for th...
11. CHAPTER XI."I told you about our friend's play," said Kiss to Mr. Lethbridge--"his undeservedly unsuccessful play, produced a fort-night since at the Star Theatre. There are lines in it wh...
15. CHAPTER XV.No more chivalrous knight than Tom Barley ever drew breath, but notwithstanding his devotion to Phoebe, certain incontrovertible conclusions had for some time past forced themse...
13. CHAPTER XIII.When two young women are closeted in their bedchamber after a pleasant day, and preparing for repose, then is the time for the interchange of sacred confidences. The events of t...
5. CHAPTER V.Long before this, Tom Barley had grown to manhood's estate: the only estate of which he was owner and was ever likely to possess. But, although he had no landed property of his...
1. CHAPTER I.In Dropmore Beeches, near Beddington, county of Surrey, stands a red brick mansion, in the Gothic style, known as Parksides. It is situated on the outskirts of an estate of fort...
9. CHAPTER IX.On the evening of the day on which Phoebe received from her father the gift of a florin, which munificent sum he deemed to be sufficient to provide for his daughter's birthday t...
17. CHAPTER XVII.The visit of the Lethbridges to Parksides was an event of great importance. Neither Uncle Leth, Fanny nor Bob had ever been there, and it was five or six years since Aunt Leth h...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Uncle Leth's day-dream was not realized--but then his day-dreams never were. When he and his family, travelling third-class, reached the station for Parksides, there was no Mise...
19. CHAPTER XIX.Miser Farebrother did not keep his promise of taking tea with Phoebe and her friends--he had matter more serious to occupy him--but to some extent he made atonement for it. He s...
6. CHAPTER VI.Jeremiah Pamflett presented himself at Parksides at noon. His mother was waiting for him at the gates. A pale, self-possessed woman, upon whose face, to the ordinary observer, w...
2. CHAPTER II.This condition of affairs favoured Miser Farebrother, when, in pursuance of a cunningly-formed plan, he took possession of the estate. Already he claimed to have a hold upon it,...
10. CHAPTER X.While this conversation was proceeding there stood at a little distance from the speakers a man who had been walking arm in arm with the actor when the friends met, and who fell...
12. CHAPTER XII.It was the merriest tea-party imaginable; and Aunt Leth's mind was at ease, in consequence of the time which had been afforded her to make suitable preparations for so eminent a...
4. CHAPTER IV.It did not long remain so. In less than a fort-night after Mrs. Farebrother's death a housekeeper was installed in Parksides. Her name was Mrs. Pamflett, and her age thirty. Bei...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Meanwhile Miser Farebrother and Tom Barley were "having it out" upstairs in the miser's room. Jeremiah Pamflett had put a very strong case before Miser Farebrother. He said that...
14. CHAPTER XIV.("That's altogether too formal, isn't it?" said Fanny, looking up from the letter. "Why doesn't the stupid fellow commence with, 'My own dearest Fanny'? It would be very much ni...
8. CHAPTER VIII.There was Mrs. Lethbridge, whom we already know, affectionately called Aunt Leth, not only by Phoebe, but by a great many young people who were on terms of friendship with her....