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Hester

Margaret Oliphant

Novelsabout 21 h 45 min of listening

The daughter of a failed banker is drawn into conflict with her father’s cousin who saved the bank.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Epigraph
  3. Hester
  4. I: Vernon’s
  5. II: Miss Catherine
  6. III: The Vernonry
  7. IV: A First Meeting
  8. V: Next Morning
  9. VI: Neighbours and Relations
  10. VII: Settling Down
  11. VIII: Nineteen
  12. IX: Recollections
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  1. X: A Lover
  2. XI: Mother and Daughter
  3. XII: An Indignant Spectator
  4. XIII: Catherine’s Opinion
  5. XIV: Harry’s View
  6. XV: What Edward Thought
  7. XVI: Walks and Talks
  8. XVII: The Young and the Old
  9. XVIII: A Family Party
  10. XIX: Confidences
  11. XX: Roland
  12. XXI: Warning
  13. XXII: Dancing Teas
  14. XXIII: The First of Them
  15. XXIV: A New Competitor
  16. XXV: A Double Mind
  17. XXVI: Straightforward
  18. XXVII: A Centre of Life
  19. XXVIII: Was It Love?
  20. XXIX: Christmas
  21. XXX: The Party at the Grange
  22. XXXI: Business and Love
  23. XXXII: A Speculator
  24. XXXIII: A Late Visitor
  25. XXXIV: Doubts and Fears
  26. XXXV: A Discovery
  27. XXXVI: In the Labyrinth
  28. XXXVII: Alarms
  29. XXXVIII: The Crisis
  30. XXXIX: Under the Holly
  31. XL: The Hour of Need
  32. XLI: A Night’s Vigil
  33. XLII: Afterwards
  34. XLIII: An Interruption
  35. XLIV: The Settlement
  36. XLV: The End
  37. Colophon
  38. Uncopyright

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