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A first-person narrator describes lively family gatherings dominated by two contrasting uncles, combining reminiscence, social banter, and genteel humour. Conversations range from polished anecdotes and financial talk to playful mockery of domestic novels, while a cousin’s taste for sensational fiction and the narrator’s appetite for melodrama provide recurring comic contrast. An invitation to a country estate introduces forthcoming visits and social maneuvering, and the narrative unfolds in episodic chapters that mix character sketches, ironic observation, and light romantic tension driven by an older relative’s interventions.

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Title: Jilted! Or, My Uncle's Scheme, Volume 2

Author: William Clark Russell

Release date: July 8, 2020 [eBook #62585]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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JILTED!
OR,
MY UNCLE’S SCHEME.



JILTED!
OR,
MY UNCLE’S SCHEME.

A Novel, in Three Vols.

VOL. II.

London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, LOW, & SEARLE,
CROWN BUILDINGS, FLEET STREET.
1875.

[All Rights Reserved.]


CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,
CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.