English fiction -- 19th century
I was alone—I felt it for the first time in my life—horribly and fearfully _alone_. Everything around me was unchanged, and yet nothing looked the same. The August sun streamed in mercilessly through the white window blind, lighting up every nook and corner of the commonly-fur...
I was alone—I felt it for the first time in my life—horribly and fearfully _alone_. Everything around me was unchanged, and yet nothing looked the same. The August sun streamed...
2. did. My father had been an only child, and my mother had come fromAustralia. Brothers and sisters, uncles, aunts, and cousins, were names unknown to me, except as they related to other people. I was literally my own mistress, and I felt terrib...
3. CHAPTER II.As soon as he had disappeared, I sat down in my chair and began to think. I might just as well do it then as at any other time. There was nothing for me to do. All my occupation...
4. CHAPTER III.Before I went to bed that night I wrote to Mr. Warrington, telling him I had decided to accept Mr. Lovett’s offer; and before another fortnight was over my head, I was on my way...
5. CHAPTER IV.But notwithstanding his youth, I found Master Fred Stephenson not only entertaining, but useful, for he took all trouble off my hands, and before long I found myself sitting by...
6. CHAPTER V.‘Yes. And you will like her so much. She is such a darling! She was baptised ‘Angela,’ but we have always called her Ange for short. The country people gave it to her first. She...
7. CHAPTER VI.I must have slept for several hours, when I was awakened by the sound of a shrill voice that reached me from the courtyard below. For my room was at the back of the house, and l...
8. CHAPTER VII.Had I waited a day or two, I should have had no occasion to ask Teresa Lovett if her family formed the English population of St. Pucelle. The news of my arrival spread like wild...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Tessie had prophesied that Mrs. Carolus and Miss Markham would not call in each other’s company, and so it happened. The married lady did not pay her visit till some days after...
10. CHAPTER IX.Sunday at St. Pucelle was not such an uninteresting day as I had anticipated. On the first Saturday I spent there, I passed through the kitchen and detected Tessie, with a large...
11. CHAPTER X.I thought of this long after I went to bed that night, and for several succeeding days. I felt sure that Tessie liked the Baron, and indeed few girls with hearts that were disen...