The Farringdons

by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

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

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

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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."

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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]