# The foster-sisters

Author: Guernsey, Lucy Ellen, 1826-1899

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72826

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

## Summary

IF one thought anything of omens (which I do not in general, though I confess I would rather not see the new moon through glass) I might think it a bad one that my first distinct recollection is of a fall. It happened in this wise: I was sitting on the edge of the great fountain basin, eating a bit of spice cake, and watching some vernons—so they call the little wild canaries in that part of the world—which were flying in and out of the great ivy on the north wall, where I suppose they had young ones. In my interest in the birds, I forgot that my perch was both narrow and slippery. I leaned backward, the better to obtain a view of the bird's nest, which I could but just see, and so doing...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/25/index.md)
- [ill. His late wife, from all I could learn, was a worthy lady on the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-foster-sisters-72826/chapters/14/index.md)