THE
FARRINGDONS
BY ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER
AUTHOR OF CONCERNING ISABEL
CARNABY, A DOUBLE THREAD,
ETC.

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1900
THE
FARRINGDONS
BY ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER
AUTHOR OF CONCERNING ISABEL
CARNABY, A DOUBLE THREAD,
ETC.

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1900

Copyright, 1900,
By ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER.
All rights reserved.


DEDICATION

For all such readers as have chanced to be
Either in Mershire or in Arcady,
I write this book, that each may smile, and say,
"Once on a time I also passed that way."


CONTENTS

chapter page
[I.]—The Osierfield [1]
[II.]—Christopher [12]
[III.]—Mrs. Bateson's tea-party [29]
[IV.]—School-days [51]
[V.]—The Moat House [70]
[VI.]—Whit Monday [90]
[VII.]—Broader views [114]
[VIII.]—Greater than our hearts [137]
[IX.]—Felicia finds happiness [156]
[X.]—Changes [187]
[XI.]—Miss Farringdon's will [213]
[XII.]—"The daughters of Philip" [232]
[XIII.]—Cecil Farquhar [249]
[XIV.]—On the river [272]
[XV.]—Little Willie [292]
[XVI.]—This side of the hills [306]
[XVII.]—George Farringdon's son [325]
[XVIII.]—The other side of the hills [346]


THE FARRINGDONS


[CHAPTER I]