# The oak staircase

Author: Lee, M. (Mary), active 1867-1892; Lee, C. (Catherine), active 1867-1892; Symington, James Ayton, 1856?-1939 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72455

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

## Summary

It was the opinion of Robin Dalrymple that Mangnall was a humbug. Such, at least, was the fact that he announced, in tones both loud and decided, as he closed a somewhat battered copy of that author's works with a tremendous clap, and tossed it contemptuously on the table. Lessons were over in the schoolroom at Horsemandown; and Miss Gregory, at the writing-table in her own peculiar corner, was doing her best to be deaf for a few moments to her pupils' clamour, while she tried to finish a letter in time for the post. Now the Horsemandown schoolroom was hardly the place one would choose for the purpose of writing a letter at any time--much less at four o'clock in the afternoon, when the op...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oak-staircase-72455/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oak-staircase-72455/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oak-staircase-72455/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oak-staircase-72455/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oak-staircase-72455/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oak-staircase-72455/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oak-staircase-72455/chapters/7/index.md)