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Mrs. Oliphant Books

Mrs. Arthur (Vol. 1 of 3)

Mrs. Oliphant

Young Curtis sat uneasily while all this went on, like a dog in leash, watching his opportunity to start. The sudden insight which had come to him with the entrance of his friend upon this scene was s..

Mrs. Arthur (Vol. 2 of 3)

Mrs. Oliphant

Poor Arthur! he thought of his sister’s little simple toilettes, so fresh, so crisp, so plain! and he did not know—what foolish young man ever does know? that whereas the finery is an easy matter, the..

Mrs. Arthur (Vol. 3 of 3)

Mrs. Oliphant

In two years from this time, strangely enough, the Bates family and almost all trace of them disappeared from Underhayes. Nothing had happened to them for all Nancy’s lifetime till her marriage—nothin..

The Primrose Path - A Chapter in the Annals of the Kingdom of Fife

Mrs. Oliphant

Little Margaret cared for such lamentations. She sat softly swinging the heavy chair against the wall, which was not an easy thing to do. She had not the aspect or physiognomy adapted for a hoyden; he..

Young Musgrave

Mrs. Oliphant

Thus abandoned by its sons, and denuded of the strongest elements of life, it may well be supposed that the castle at Penninghame was a melancholy house. What more easy than to conjure up the saddest ..