THE YOUNGER SISTER Vol 2 E-Book

CATHERINE ANNE AUSTEN HUBBACK

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This is the second volume (of three) in the completion of Jane Austen’s series “THE WATSONS” by her niece Catherine Hubback-Watson. It is a wonderful coming of age tale by Jane Austen and her niece, Catherine. A comedy of manners, it is a classic piece by the author of a number of tales about young women finding their way in society - not to be missed.=================Catherine Anne Hubback (7 July 1818 – 25 February 1877) was an English novelist, and the eighth child and fourth daughter of Sir Francis Austen (1774-1865), and niece of JANE AUSTEN.She began writing fiction to support herself and her three sons after her husband John Hubback was institutionalized with a breakdown.She had copies of some of her aunt's unfinished works and, in 1850, remembering Austen's proposed plot, she wrote The Younger Sister, a completion of Jane Austen's THE WATSONS. In the next thirteen years, she completed nine more novels.She emigrated to California, USA in 1870. In the autumn of 1876 she removed to Gainesville, Prince William Co, VA, where she died in 1877.

Leseprobe

THE YOUNGER SISTER

Vol. II

A Novel

BY

Jane Austen

and

Catherine Anne Austen Hubback

IN THREE VOLUMES.—VOL. II.

Originally Published By

THOMAS CAUTLEY NEWBY, PUBLISHER, LONDON

[1850.]

Resurrected by

ABELA PUBLISHING, LONDON

[2017]

The Younger Sister

Vol. II

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DEDICATION

TO THE MEMORY OF HER AUNT,

THE LATE JANE AUSTEN,

THIS WORK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

BY THE AUTHORESS

WHO, THOUGH TOO YOUNG TO HAVE KNOWN

HER PERSONALLY,

WAS FROM CHILDHOOD TAUGHT TO

ESTEEM HER VIRTUES,

AND ADMIRE HER TALENTS.

Aberystwith

Feb. 1850.

THE YOUNGER SISTER

CHAPTER I.

The invitation to the important party was not for an early date; ten days must elapse before the arrival of the day expected to bring so much happiness with it. The comfort of the Watson family suffered alternations which could only be compared to the ebbing and flowing of the tide, but that their recurrence could not be calculated on with equal certainty. When the pleasure she was to enjoy occupied her mind, Margaret was comparatively happy; the arrangement of her dress, the minor difficulties about ornaments and shoes, were even then sufficient to destroy her equanimity, and detract from her peace of mind; but this was nothing to the state of acidity and fermentation which her temper presented, when the grand insult of not being Miss Osborne's friend, and not invited to stay at the Castle, recurred in vivid colors to her memory.

But three days before the important morning, a very unexpected event threw the whole family into a ferment. Just as the two elder sisters were setting off to the town, to see if their new bonnets were making the progress which was desirable, the sudden appearance of a post-chaise startled them. Emma, who was in her father's room as usual, heard the wheels on the gravel, and naturally supposing that it was the old pony-chaise leaving the door, was perfectly astonished the next minute by the startling uproar which resounded through the hall. Loud laughter, and a mingled clatter of tongues, which might almost be denominated screaming, convinced her that whatever was the origin, it was not of a tragic nature, but her awakened curiosity made her long to know the cause, through she feared to move, as her father had fallen into a gentle doze. A shriller exclamation than before suddenly roused him from his slumber, and starting up he exclaimed:

"What are those confounded women about? Emma, go and bid them all be quiet."

Emma escaped from the room to obey his behest, and on reaching the turn of the stairs paused a moment to see who was there; just then she caught her own name.

"Emma is at home," said Margaret, "and as I really want to go, I shall not mind you. Pen, you can go and sit with her."

"Very well, it's all the same to me," replied a stranger, who she inferred was her unknown sister, "I am sure I don't want to keep you at home." And as she spoke she turned again to the door, "I say driver, you just get that trunk lifted in, there's a good fellow, and see you don't turn it bottom upwards, my man, or I vow I won't give you a sixpence—do you hear?"