In a clergyman’s household in the small town of Abbeychurch, a group of young people are tested in everyday ways: a clever, opinionated girl trusts her own judgment too far, while quieter companions learn harder lessons of obedience and restraint. The subtitle states the moral, and an epigraph from Newman warns that the hundredth duty is the true test of faith.
Charlotte Yonge’s first published novel, reissued by her late in life, for readers of her High Church domestic fiction. Download the free EPUB.