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Whiteladies

Author: Oliphant
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385249775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478

Book Description

Whiteladies

Author: Oliphant
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385249775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478

Book Description

Whiteladies

Author: Mrs. Oliphant
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
Whiteladies explores the story of two aging sisters, Susan and Augustine Austin, who live in an old house and a former nunnery known as Whiteladies. At the story's beginning, the house belonged to their seriously ill nephew Herbert. Susan remained anxious that, when Herbert dies, the estate will go to a cousin she despises, and she and Augustine will lose their home. The measures she takes to stop that from happening are revealed later in this gripping story.

Whiteladies

Author: Margaret Oliphant Oliphant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description

Whiteladies

Author: Margaret Oliphant
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
IT was an old manor-house, not a deserted convent, as you might suppose by the name. The conventual buildings from which no doubt the place had taken its name, had dropped away, bit by bit, leaving nothing but one wall of the chapel, now closely veiled and mantled with ivy, behind the orchard, about a quarter of a mile from the house. The lands were Church lands, but the house was a lay house, of an older date than the family who had inhabited it from Henry VIII.'s time, when the priory was destroyed, and its possessions transferred to the manor. No one could tell very clearly how this transfer was made, or how the family of Austins came into being. Before that period no trace of them was to be found. They sprang up all at once, not rising gradually into power, but appearing full-blown as proprietors of the manor, and possessors of all the confiscated lands. There was a tradition in the family of some wild, tragical union of an emancipated nun with a secularized friar-a kind of repetition of Luther and his Catherine, but with results less comfortable than those which followed the marriage of those German souls. With the English convertites the issue was not happy, as the story goes. Their broken vows haunted them; their possessions, which were not theirs, but the Church's, lay heavy on their consciences; and they died early, leaving descendants with whose history a thread of perpetual misfortune was woven. The family history ran in a succession of long minorities, the line of inheritance gliding from one branch to the other, the direct thread breaking constantly. To die young, and leave orphan children behind; or to die younger still, letting the line drop and fall back upon cadets of the house, was the usual fate of the Austins of Whiteladies-unfortunate people who bore the traces of their original sin in their very name.