Materfamilias
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Excerpt:My father in England married a second time when I was about eighteen. She was my governess.Mother herself had engaged her, and I believe had asked, when dying, that she would remain to take care of us; and I don't say that she was not a good woman. She had been nearly five years in the house, and we had the habit of looking to her for advice in all family concerns; and certainly she took great pains with my education. But of course I was not going to stand seeing her put in mother's place. I told father so. I said to him, kindly, but firmly: "Father, you will have to choose between us....
Chapters (15)
- MATERFAMILIAS
- ADA CAMBRIDGE
- AUTHOR OF THE THREE MISS KINGS, A MARRIAGE CEREMONY, MY GUARDIAN, NOT ALL IN VAIN, FIDELIS, A LITTLE MINX, ETC.
- CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNING OF IT ALL.
- CHAPTER II. IN THE EARLY DAYS.
- CHAPTER III. A PAGE OF LIFE.
- CHAPTER IV. THE BROKEN CIRCLE.
- CHAPTER V. A LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDING.
- CHAPTER VI. DEPOSED.
- CHAPTER VII. A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE SILVER WEDDING.
- CHAPTER IX. GRANDMAMMA.
- CHAPTER X. VINDICATED.
- THE END.
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