Octavia Bassett
Search results
Dec 1, 2005 · A Fair Barbarian by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
- A Fair Barbarian
- English
The Fair Barbarian is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Robert Thornby and written by Edith M. Kennedy, based on an 1881 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film stars Vivian Martin, Clarence Geldart, Douglas MacLean, Jane Wolfe, Josephine Crowell, and Mae Busch.
- Chapter I. — Miss Octavia Bassett.
- Chapter II. — "An Investment, anyway."
- Chapter III. — L'argentville.
- Chapter IV. — Lady Theobald.
- Chapter v. — Lucia.
- Chapter VI. — Accidental.
- Chapter VII. — "I Should Like to See More of Slowbridge."
- Chapter VIII. — Shares Looking Up.
- Chapter IX. — White Muslin.
- Chapter X. — Announcing Mr. Barold.
Slowbridge had been shaken to its foundations. It may as well be explained, however, at the outset, that it would not take much of a sensation to give Slowbridge a great shock. In the first place, Slowbridge was not used to sensations, and was used to going on the even and respectable tenor of its way, regarding the outside world with private distr...
The natural result of these efforts was, that Miss Belinda was moved to shed a few tears. "I hope you will excuse my being too startled to say I was glad to see you," she said. "I have not seen my brother for thirty years, and I was very fond of him." "He said you were," answered Octavia; "and he was very fond of you too. He didn't write to you, be...
Miss Belinda sat, looking at her niece, with a sense of being at once stunned and fascinated. To see a creature so young, so pretty, so luxuriously splendid, and at the same time so simply and completely at ease with herself and her surroundings, was a revelation quite beyond her comprehension. The best-bred and nicest girls Slowbridge could produc...
"Oh, dear!" she exclaimed nervously, "there is Lady Theobald." Lady Theobald, having been making calls of state, was returning home rather later than usual, when, in driving up High Street, her eye fell upon Miss Bassett's garden. She put up her eyeglasses, and gazed through them severely; then she issued a mandate to her coachman. "Dobson," she sa...
In this manner Slowbridge received the shock which shook it to its foundations, and it was a shock from which it did not recover for some time. Before ten o'clock the next morning, everybody knew of the arrival of Martin Bassett's daughter. The very boarding-school (Miss Pilcher's select seminary for young ladies, "combining the comforts of a home,...
When dinner was over, Lady Theobald rose, and proceeded to the drawing-room, Lucia following in her wake. From her very babyhood Lucia had disliked the drawing-room, which was an imposing apartment of great length and height, containing much massive furniture, upholstered in faded blue satin. All the girl's evenings, since her fifth year, had been ...
When he announced at breakfast his intention of taking his departure on the midday train, Lucia wondered again what would happen; and again, to her relief, Lady Theobald was astonishingly lenient. "As your friends expect you, of course we cannot overrule them," she said. "We will, however, hope to see something of you during your stay at Broadoaks....
There were others who echoed her ladyship's words afterward, though they echoed them privately, and with more caution than my lady felt necessary. It is certain that Miss Octavia Bassett did not improve as time progressed, and she had enlarged opportunities for studying the noble example set before her by Slowbridge. On his arrival in New York, Mar...
As the good little spinster was arraying herself on this particular evening, having laid upon the bed the greater portion of her modest splendor, she went to her wardrobe, and took therefrom the scored bandbox containing her best cap. All the ladies of Slowbridge wore caps; and all being respectfully plagiarized from Lady Theobald, without any refe...
Lady Theobald's invited guests sat in the faded blue drawing-room, waiting. Everybody had been unusually prompt, perhaps because everybody wished to be on the ground in time to see Miss Octavia Bassett make her entrance. "I should think it would be rather a trial, even to such a girl as she is said to be," remarked one matron. "It is but natural th...
A Fair Barbarian. Frances Hodgson Burnett. 3.58. 270 ratings43 reviews. Miss Belinda Bassett's niece arrives in a small England town. Octavia Bassett arrives from Nevada with her trunks of fancy clothes, diamond jewelry, and gold coins for the poor.
- (268)
- Paperback
Oct 18, 2011 · A Fair Barbarian. Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924) The setting is a small English village in the 19th century. When her niece shows up on her doorstep unexpectedly, a quiet spinster finds her life turned upside down. (Summary by Linda Andrus)
SectionChapterReaderTime00:09:4100:10:2500:07:2100:09:49Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Fair Barbarian (1881) tells the story of Miss Octavia Bassett's relationship with the town of Slowbridge. Miss Bassett is a young American...
Fiction. Romance. Published: 1881. Collection: Tags: Download PDF. Buy it on Amazon Listen via Audible FREE Audible 30 days. Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan and PG Distributed Proofreaders A FAIR BARBARIAN BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT 1881 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. MISS OCTAVIA BASSETT II.
