Just before Roger leaves on a two-year scientific expedition to Africa, he asks for Cynthia's hand and she accepts, although she insists that their engagement should remain secret until Roger returns. Gibson overhears that Osborne may be fatally ill, she begins promoting the match. Unfortunately, Roger falls in love with Cynthia and when Mrs. Nevertheless, they are loyal to each other & often conspire to elude both Cynthia's mother and Molly's father.Molly has harbored a secret love for Roger Hamley, the younger son of the local squire. Preston, who is rumored to be a gambler and a scoundrel. Cynthia has been educated in France, and it gradually becomes apparent that she and her mother have secrets in their past, involving the land agent from the great house, Mr. Kirkpatrick to provide Molly a mother, she is unhappy at the event, but warms to the inevitability when she meets Mr.s Kirkpatrick's daughter, Cynthia, to whom she forms an instant friendship.The two girls couldn't be more different: Cynthia is far more worldly and rebellious than Molly, who is naive and slightly awkward. She is attractive, but also innocent and unworldly. Elizabeth Gaskell's final novel (she died just before she finished the book) is a gentle comedy of manners very much in the style of Jane Austen and was serialized in The Cornhill magazine from 1864 to 1865 Molly Gibson is the only child of widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
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