Volume 1
Volume 1 - Chapter 1. Cecilia Holt And Her Three Friends
_ VOLUME I CHAPTER I. CECILIA HOLT AND HER THREE FRIENDS
There came an episode in the life of Cecilia Holt which it is essential should first be told. When she was twenty-two years old she was living with her mother at Exeter. Mrs. Holt was a widow with comfortable means,--ample that is for herself and her daughter to supply them with all required by provincial comfort and provincial fashion. They had a house without the city, with a garden and a gardener and two boys, and they kept a brougham, which was the joint care of the gardener and the boy inside and the boy outside. They saw their friends and were seen by them. Once in the year they left home for a couple of months and went,--wherever the daughter wished. Sometimes there was a week or two in London； sometimes in Paris or Switzerland. The mother seemed to be only there to obey the daughter‘s behests, and Cecilia was the most affectionate of masters. Nothi

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