# The Dashwoods

Author: Rudd, Steele, 1868-1935; Marquet, Claude, 1869-1920 [Illustrator]

Genre: Humorous stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78216

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

## Summary

They all enjoyed the city—all but Mrs. Dashwood and Maria. The former tired of it after the first day, and saw nothing to enthuse about. There was nothing real, nothing natural there, to appeal to her homely spirit. In her heart she longed to be back at “Fairfield”—longed to be amongst the fowls, and the ducks, and the dairy cows, and to see again the great wheatfields, and the blue peaks of the ranges, and vast plainlands stretching far away to the boundless west. But for the sake of the others she endured, without complaint, the stuffy, noisy, dirty streets of the artificial city, with its crowds of jostling humanity. She even pretended to share the joys and excitements of her family, a...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dashwoods-78216/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dashwoods-78216/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dashwoods-78216/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dashwoods-78216/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dashwoods-78216/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dashwoods-78216/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dashwoods-78216/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dashwoods-78216/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dashwoods-78216/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dashwoods-78216/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dashwoods-78216/chapters/1/index.md)