# The Challoners

Author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57002

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Challoners+Benson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The hot stress of a real midsummer day towards the end of June had given place to the exquisite tempered warmth of evening, and a little breeze born of the hour before sunset, and made fragrant among the glowing flower-beds of the vicarage garden just ruffled the hair of Helen Challoner as she half sat, half lay in a long deck-chair at the edge of the croquet-lawn, reading a red-covered book with the absorbed intentness which she devoted to any occupation that interested her. To the west a line of tall box-hedge, of that smooth and compacted growth which many years alone can give, screened her from the level rays of the sun, which was but an hour above the horizon, and performed the almos...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/3/index.md)
- [ill. And a hurried interchange of telegrams led to her arrival at](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-challoners-57002/chapters/8/index.md)