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The Three Miss Kings

Ada Cambridge (1844–1926)

Novel · first published 1891 · London: Heinemann (this text from the 1891 New York: Appleton edition)

Three orphaned sisters leave their coastal home for Melbourne society in the year of the 1880 Exhibition.

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About 134,289 words · roughly 9.4 hours of reading (long) · 29 sections online · In: Early women writers

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Ada Cambridge (author) died in 1926. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1976. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.

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First published in 1891. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.

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Contents

  1. THE THREE MISS KINGS
  2. An Australian Story
  3. BY
  4. ADA CAMBRIDGE
  5. AUTHOR OF MY GUARDIAN
  6. NEW YORK
  7. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
  8. 1891
  9. THE THREE MISS KINGS.
  10. CHAPTER I.
  11. A DISTANT VIEW.
  12. CHAPTER II.
  13. A LONELY EYRIE.
  14. CHAPTER III.
  15. PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGHT.
  16. CHAPTER IV.
  17. DEPARTURE.
  18. CHAPTER V.
  19. ROCKED IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP.
  20. CHAPTER VI.
  21. PAUL.
  22. CHAPTER VII.
  23. A MORNING WALK.
  24. CHAPTER VIII.
  25. AN INTRODUCTION TO MRS. GRUNDY.
  26. CHAPTER IX.
  27. MRS. AARONS.
  28. CHAPTER X.
  29. THE FIRST INVITATION.
  30. CHAPTER XI.
  31. DISAPPOINTMENT.
  32. CHAPTER XII.
  33. TRIUMPH.
  34. CHAPTER XIII.
  35. PATTY IN UNDRESS.
  36. CHAPTER XIV.
  37. IN THE WOMB OF FATE.
  38. CHAPTER XV.
  39. ELIZABETH FINDS A FRIEND.
  40. CHAPTER XVI.
  41. "WE WERE NOT STRANGERS, AS TO US AND ALL IT SEEMED."
  42. CHAPTER XVII.
  43. AFTERNOON TEA.
  44. CHAPTER XVIII.
  45. THE FAIRY GODMOTHER.
  46. CHAPTER XIX.
  47. A MORNING AT THE EXHIBITION.
  48. CHAPTER XX.
  49. CHINA V. THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY.
  50. CHAPTER XXI.
  51. THE "CUP."
  52. CHAPTER XXII.
  53. CROSS PURPOSES.
  54. CHAPTER XXIII.
  55. MR. YELVERTON'S MISSION.
  56. CHAPTER XXIV.
  57. AN OLD STORY.
  58. CHAPTER XXV.
  59. OUT IN THE COLD.
  60. CHAPTER XXVI.
  61. WHAT PAUL COULD NOT KNOW.
  62. CHAPTER XXVII.
  63. SLIGHTED.
  64. CHAPTER XXVIII.
  65. "WRITE ME AS ONE WHO LOVES HIS FELLOW MEN."
  66. CHAPTER XXIX.
  67. PATTY CONFESSES.
  68. CHAPTER XXX.
  69. THE OLD AND THE NEW.
  70. CHAPTER XXXI.
  71. IN RETREAT.
  72. CHAPTER XXXII.
  73. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
  74. CHAPTER XXXIII.
  75. THE DRIVE HOME.
  76. CHAPTER XXXIV.
  77. SUSPENSE.
  78. CHAPTER XXXV.
  79. HOW ELIZABETH MADE UP HER MIND.
  80. CHAPTER XXXVI.
  81. INVESTIGATION.
  82. CHAPTER XXXVII.
  83. DISCOVERY.
  84. CHAPTER XXXVIII.
  85. THE TIME FOR ACTION.
  86. CHAPTER XXXIX.
  87. AN ASSIGNATION.
  88. CHAPTER XL.
  89. MRS. DUFF-SCOTT HAS TO BE RECKONED WITH.
  90. CHAPTER XLI.
  91. MR. YELVERTON STATES HIS INTENTIONS.
  92. CHAPTER XLII.
  93. HER LORD AND MASTER.
  94. CHAPTER XLIII.
  95. THE EVENING BEFORE THE WEDDING.
  96. CHAPTER XLIV.
  97. THE WEDDING DAY.
  98. CHAPTER XLV.
  99. IN SILK ATTIRE.
  100. CHAPTER XLVI.
  101. PATTY CHOOSES HER CAREER.
  102. CHAPTER XLVII.
  103. A FAIR FIELD AND NO FAVOUR.
  104. CHAPTER XLVIII.
  105. PROBATION.
  106. CHAPTER XLIX.
  107. YELVERTON.
  108. CHAPTER L.
  109. "THY PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE."
  110. CHAPTER LI.
  111. PATIENCE REWARDED.
  112. CHAPTER LII.
  113. CONCLUSION.
  114. THE END.

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