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Loading... The Trial: More Links of the Daisy Chain (1864)by Charlotte M. Yonge
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A sequel, as the title indicates, to Yonge's earlier novel The Daisy Chain. I have read it, but not recently, and as a result had some difficulty following events in the early part of The Trial. The events leading to the trial of the title do not occur until about 175 pages into the book, and the legal aspects are of little interest to the author. Her focus is the test of character provided by the outcome. The accused man's family emigrates to the United States, and we get an entertaining glimpse of life in that baffling country through Yonge's eyes. Servants there address you by your first name. The Civil War is taking place, and I was interested to see that Yonge in no way sees it as a war about slavery, and declines to take a side, although there is an implication that rebellion against lawful authority is probably a bad thing. In general, a typical CMY novel of close observation of character and small events which present significant moral challenges. Some follow-up on family members engaged in missionary work in New Zealand, one of Yonge's lifetime interests. Not one of her best novels, but full of small pleasures for those who appreciate her work. no reviews | add a review
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The recent wedding was the third in the family; the first after a five years' respite. It ensued upon an attachment that had grown up with the young people, so that they had been entirely one with each other; and there had been little of formal demand either of the maiden's affection or her father's consent; but both had been implied from the first. The bridegroom was barely of age, the bride not seventeen, and Dr. May had owned it was very shocking, and told Richard to say nothing about it Hector had coaxed and pleaded, pathetically talked of his great empty house at Maplewood, and declared that till he might take Blanche away, he would not leave Stoneborough; he would bring down all sorts of gossip on his courtship, he would worry Ethel, and take care she finished nobody's education. What did Blanche want with more education? She knew enough for him. Couldn't Ethel be satisfied with Aubrey and Gertrude? or he dared say she might have Mary too, if she was insatiable. If Dr. May was so unnatural as to forbid him to hang about the house, why, he would take rooms at the Swan. In fact, as Dr. May observed, he treated him to a modern red-haired Scotch version of 'Make me a willow cabin at your gate;' and as he heartily loved Hector and entirely trusted him, and Blanche's pretty head was a wise and prudent one, what was the use of keeping the poor lad unsettled? So Mrs. Rivers, the eldest sister and the member's wife, had come to arrange matters and help Ethel, and a very brilliant wedding it had been. No library descriptions found. |
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