Dinah Maria Mulock

CHAPTER I " Get out o' Mr. Fletcher's road, ye idle, lounging, little--" "Vagabond," I think the woman (Sally Watkins, once my nurse) was going to say, but she changed her mind. My father and I both glanced round, surprised at her unusual reticence of epithets : but when the lad addressed...

The growth and development of the Növel forms one of the most distinctive characteristics of the literature of the Victorian era, and probably no work of fiction issued during this period has stimulated that development to such an extent, and at the same time cast so pure and so ennobling an...