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The Richleighs of Tantamount

Barbara Willard

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To Tantamount, great-great-grandfather's folly--"a mass of fantastic turrets and buttresses and battlements...standing like an extension of the rocks themselves"--come the Richleighs: Edwin, sixteen, heir to the family's enormous wealth, Angeline, Sebastian, and the baby, eight-year-old Maud. Mama and Papa have gone abroad; New Nurse has declined to journey to the remote west of England; tutor and governess soon leave, and servants too. The children are alone in the musty, moldy halls. Thus far the style is mid-Victorian gothic, but quickly the breeze freshens... the children are free of rules, free of formalities, free to be themselves. To show them how to manage they have neighbors, Nancy and her younger brother Dick, who seem like "shy and beautiful beings from another world." The six stay together, playing on the beach, catching and cooking fish, picking berries, until the Richleighs' past life fades in a succession of strange and lovely days. But Tantamount remains: they have given it their allegiance, it has disclosed its terrible past as a smuggler's den and worse.

Language: English

Pages: 189

Format: Hardcover

Release: June 01, 1967

ISBN 13: 9780152667504

The Richleighs of Tantamount

Barbara Willard

0/5 ( ratings)

To Tantamount, great-great-grandfather's folly--"a mass of fantastic turrets and buttresses and battlements...standing like an extension of the rocks themselves"--come the Richleighs: Edwin, sixteen, heir to the family's enormous wealth, Angeline, Sebastian, and the baby, eight-year-old Maud. Mama and Papa have gone abroad; New Nurse has declined to journey to the remote west of England; tutor and governess soon leave, and servants too. The children are alone in the musty, moldy halls. Thus far the style is mid-Victorian gothic, but quickly the breeze freshens... the children are free of rules, free of formalities, free to be themselves. To show them how to manage they have neighbors, Nancy and her younger brother Dick, who seem like "shy and beautiful beings from another world." The six stay together, playing on the beach, catching and cooking fish, picking berries, until the Richleighs' past life fades in a succession of strange and lovely days. But Tantamount remains: they have given it their allegiance, it has disclosed its terrible past as a smuggler's den and worse.

Language: English

Pages: 189

Format: Hardcover

Release: June 01, 1967

ISBN 13: 9780152667504

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