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The Carbonels, by Charlotte M. Yonge
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Title: The Carbonels
Author: Charlotte M. Yonge
Illustrator: W.S. Stacey
Release Date: April 27, 2007 [EBook #21223]
Language: English
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The Carbonels
By Charlotte M. Yonge _______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________THE CARBONELS
CHAPTER ONE.
FRENCH MEASURE.
"For thy walls a pretty slight drollery." The Second Part of King Henry IV.
"A bad lot. Yes, sir, a thoroughly bad lot."
"You don't mean it."
"Yes, ma'am, a bad lot is the Uphill people. Good for nothing and ungrateful! I've known them these thirty-years, and no one will do anything with them."
The time was the summer of 1822. The place was a garden, somewhat gone to waste, with a gravel drive running round a great circle of periwinkles with a spotted aucuba in the middle. There was a low, two-storied house, with green shutters, green Venetian blinds, and a rather shabby veranda