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Автор Шарлотта Мэри Янг
Charlotte M. Yonge. Magnum Bonum
CHAPTER I. JOE BROWNLOW'S FANCY.
CHAPTER II. THE CHICKENS.
CHAPTER III. THE WHITE SLATE.
CHAPTER IV. THE STRAY CHICKENS.
CHAPTER V. BRAINS AND NO BRAINS.
CHAPTER VI. ENCHANTED GROUND.
CHAPTER VII. THE COLONEL'S CHICKENS.
CHAPTER VIII. THE FOLLY.
CHAPTER IX. FLIGHTS.
CHAPTER X. ELLEN'S MAGNUM BONUMS.
CHAPTER XI. UNDINE.
CHAPTER XII. KING MIDAS.
CHAPTER XIII. THE RIVAL HEIRESSES.
CHAPTER XIV. PUMPING AWAY.
CHAPTER XV. THE BELFOREST MAGNUM BONUM.
CHAPTER XVI. POSSESSION.
CHAPTER XVII. POPINJAY PARLOUR.
CHAPTER XVIII. AN OFFER FOR MAGNUM BONUM.
CHAPTER XIX. THE SNOWY WINDING-SHEET.
CHAPTER XX. A RACE.
CHAPTER XXI. AN ACT OF INDEPENDENCE.
CHAPTER XXII. SHUTTING THE STABLE DOOR.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE LOST TREASURE.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE ANGEL MOUNTAIN.
CHAPTER XXV. THE LAND OF AFTERNOON.
CHAPTER XXVI. MOONSHINE.
CHAPTER XXVII. BLUEBEARD'S CLOSET.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE TURN OF THE WHEEL.
CHAPTER XXIX. FRIENDS AND UNFRIENDS.
CHAPTER XXX. AS WEEL OFF AS AYE WAGGING
CHAPTER XXXI. SLACK TIDE.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE COST.
CHAPTER XXXIII. BITTER FAREWELLS.
CHAPTER XXXIV. BLIGHTED BEINGS.
CHAPTER XXXV. THE PHANTOM BLACKCOCK OF KILNAUGHT.
CHAPTER XXXVI. OF NO CONSEQUENCE.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE TRAVELLER'S JOY.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE TRUST FULFILLED.
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE TRUANT.
CHAPTER XL. EVIL OUT OF GOOD.
CHAPTER XLI. GOOD OUT OF EVIL.
CHAPTER XLII. DISENCHANTED.
Charlotte M. Yonge. Magnum Bonum
Magnum Bonum or Mother Carey's Brood
CHAPTER I. JOE BROWNLOW'S FANCY.
The lady said, "An orphan's fate
Is sad and hard to bear. "-Scott.
"Mother, you could do a great kindness. "
"Well, Joe?"
"If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath's here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and they don't know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers' daughters, and has no home at all, and they must go away to have the house purified. They can't take her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles. "
"What is her name?"
"Allen. The cry was always for Miss Allen when the sick girls wanted to be amused. "
"Allen! I wonder if it can be the same child as the one Robert was interested about. You don't remember, my dear. It was the year you were at Vienna, when one of Robert's brother-officers died on the voyage out to China, and he sent home urgent letters for me to canvass right and left for the orphan's election. You know Robert writes much better than he speaks, and I copied over and over again his account of the poor young man to go with the cards. 'Caroline Otway Allen, aged seven years, whole orphan, daughter of Captain Allen, l07th Regiment;' yes, that's the way it ran. "
"The year I was at Vienna, and Robert went out to China. That was eleven years ago. She must be the very child, for she is only eighteen. They sent her to Miss Heath's to grow a little older, for though she was at the head of everything at the asylum, she looks so childish that they can't send her out as a governess. Did you see her, mother?"
