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Wych Hazel

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Title: Wych Hazel
Author: Susan and Anna Warner
Release Date: February 19, 2006 [EBook #17800]
Language: English
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Produced by Daniel Fromont

Susan Warner, 1819-1885 & Anna Warner 1824-1915, Wych Hazel (1876), Putnam's edition 1888

Wych Hazel seen by The Atlantic monthly, Volume 38, Issue 227, September 1876, pp. 368-369
"It may well be questioned whether the authors of the _Wide, Wide World_ have added to their fame by this new novel. In the first place, the story it tells is one of no marked merit or originality, and the way in which it is told is in the highest degree crabbed and unintelligible. There is such an air of pertness about every one of the speakers, and the story is told almost entirely by means of conversations, that the reader gets the impression that all the characters are referring to jests known only to themselves, as if he were overhearing private conversations. As may be imagined, this scrappy way of writing soon becomes very tiresome from the difficulty the reader has in detecting the hidden meaning of these curt sentences. The book tells the love of Rollo for Wych Hazel, and indulges in gentle satire against parties, round dances, etc. The love-story is made obscure, Rollo's manners are called Spanish, and he is in many ways a peculiar young man. We seem to be dealing much more with notes for a novel than with the completed product."

WORKS BY
SUSAN AND ANNA WARNER.
WYCH HAZEL. Large 12mo, cloth extra $1 75
"If more books of this order were produced, it would elevate the tastes and increase the desire for obtaining a higher order of literature." --The Critic.
"We can promise every lover of fine fiction a wholesome feast in the book." --Boston Traveller.
THE GOLD OF CHICKAREE. Large 12mo, cloth extra $1 75
"It would be impossible for these two sisters to write anything the public would not care to read." --_Boston Transcript_.
"The plot is fresh, and the dialogue delightfully vivacious." --Detroit Free Press.
DIANA. 12mo, cloth $1 75
"For charming landscape pictures, and the varied influences of nature, for analysis of character, and motives of action, we have of late seen nothing like it." --The Christian Register.
" 'Diana' will be eagerly read by the author's large circle of admirers, who will rise from its perusal with the feeling that it is in every prospect worthy of her reputation." --_Boston Traveller_.

WYCH HAZEL
BY
SUSAN AND ANNA WARNER
AUTHORS OF "WIDE, WIDE WORLD," "DIANA," "THE GOLD OF CHICKAREE," ETC.
NEW YORK & LONDON
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press
1888
COPYRIGHT BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
1876
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
MR. FALKIRK
CHAPTER II.
BEGINNING A FAIRY TALE
CHAPTER III.
CORNER OF A STAGE-COACH
CHAPTER IV.
FELLOW-TRAVELLERS
CHAPTER V.
IN THE FOG
CHAPTER VI.
THE RED SQUIRREL
CHAPTER VII.
SMOKE
CHAPTER VIII.
THE MILL FLOOR
CHAPTER IX.
CATS
CHAPTER X.
CHICKAREE
CHAPTER XI.
VIXEN
CHAPTER XII.
AT DR. MARYLAND'S
CHAPTER XIII.
THE GREY COB
CHAPTER XIV.
HOLDING COURT
CHAPTER XV.
TO MOSCHELOO
CHAPTER XVI.
FISHING
CHAPTER XVII.
ENCHANTED GROUND
CHAPTER XVIII.
COURT IN THE WOODS
CHAPTER XIX.
SELF-CONTROL
CHAPTER XX.
BOUQUETS
CHAPTER XXI.
MOONSHINE
CHAPTER XXII.
A REPORT
CHAPTER XXIII.
KITTY FISHER
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE LOSS OF ALL THINGS
CHAPTER XXV.
IN THE GERMAN
CHAPTER XXVI.
IN THE ROCKAWAY
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE GERMAN AT OAK HILL
CHAPTER XXVIII.
BREAKFAST FOR THREE
CHAPTER XXIX.
JEANNIE DEANS
CHAPTER XXX.
THE WILL
CHAPTER XXXI.
WHOSE WILL?
CHAPTER XXXII.
CAPTAIN LANCASTER'S TEAM
CHAPTER XXXIII.
HITS AT CROQUET
CHAPTER XXXIV.
FRIENDLY TONGUES
CHAPTER XXXV.
FIGURES AND FAVOURS
CHAPTER XXXVI.
THE RUNAWAY
CHAPTER XXXVII.
IN A FOG
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
DODGING
CHAPTER XXXIX.
A COTTON MILL
CHAPTER XL.
SOMETHING NEW
CHAPTER XLI.
A LESSON
CHAPTER XLII.
STUDY
CHAPTER I.
MR. FALKIRK.
"We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing."
When one has in charge a treasure which one values greatly, and which, if once made known one is pretty sure to lose, I suppose the impulse of most men would be towards a hiding- place. So, at any rate, felt one of the men in this history. Schools had done their secluding work for a time; tutors and governors had come and gone under an almost Carthusian vow of silence, except as to their lessons; and now with seventeen years of inexperience on his hands, Mr. Falkirk's sensations were those of the man out West, who wanted to move off whenever another man came within twenty miles of him.
Thus, in the forlorn hope of a retreat which yet he knew must prove useless, Mr. Falkirk let the first March winds blow him out of town; and at this present time was snugly hid away in a remote village which nobody ever heard of, and where nobody ever came.
So far so good: Mr. Falkirk rested and took breath. Nevertheless the spring came, even there; and following close in her train, the irrepressible conflict. Whoever succeeded in running away from his duties--or his difficulties? There was a flutter of young life within doors as without, and