tion>Charlotte M. Yonge
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664639868
Table of Contents
PART I
CHAPTER I
Who ought to go then and who ought to stay!
Where do you draw an obvious border line?
Cecil and Mary
Among the numerous steeples counted from the waters of the Thames, in the heart of the City, and grudged by modern economy as cumberers of the soil of Mammon, may be remarked an abortive little dingy cupola, surmounting two large round eyes which have evidently stared over the adjacent roofs ever since the Fire that began at Pie-corner and ended in Pudding-lane.
Strange that the like should have been esteemed the highest walk of architecture, and yet Honora Charlecote well remembered the days when St. Wulstan’s was her boast, so large, so clean,
