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The Three Brides

Charlotte Mary Yonge

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. . .No, I know she is not—not the whole truth, and I don’t know what is left out, or what is false!  And I’m as bad—making them think I give in and discard Frank!  Oh! is that my pride—or that it is too bad to encourage him now I know more?  He’ll soon scorn me, and leave off—whatever he ever thought of me.  She has taken me from all my friends—and she will take him away!  No one is left me but papa; and though she can’t hurt his love, she has got his confidence away, and made him join against me!  But that one thing I’ll never, never do!”

She started up, and opened a locked purple photograph-album, with ‘In Memoriam’ inscribed on it—her hands trembling so that she could hardly turn the key.  She turned to the likeness of a young man—a painful likeness of a handsome face, where the hard verities of sun-painting had refused to veil the haggard trace of early di. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Obviously, Victorian tractarian literature isn't amazing, but it's 5 star readability. I do like a nice simple moral - be good, and things will go right for you, be bad and they won't. Charlotte Yonge's strength is in the reality and ordinariness of her people - I felt I could have met any one of th

I really enjoyed this one, it was quite a bit different than the author's other books. It is basically about a family with five sons who all live with their mother, (sort of well one is a navy captain soo... you get what I mean.)
At the same time the three eldest son's brides come home. Cecil the wif

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I find reading Yonge very much like slipping into a warm bath. She is so absolutely certain of her values, so clear about rights and wrongs, that even when she herself is absolutely wrong, in her anti-Catholicism, anti-Protestantism, and anti-women’s equality, I find myself forgiving her. Her gift i