THE LONG VACATION

BY

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE





How the children leave us, and no traces
Linger of that smiling angel-band,
Gone, for ever gone, and in their places
Weary men and anxious women stand.
ADELAIDE A. PROCTOR





PREFACE



If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be
taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to
consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for
the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be
interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods.