Category: Romance
The _goûter_ was laid in a long narrow room, which evidently had once been a banqueting hall. Remnants of exquisitely stained glass still ornamented its windows, although the ravages made in them by time had been replaced by ordinary white panes. Tall, straight-backed chairs,...
The _goûter_ was laid in a long narrow room, which evidently had once been a banqueting hall. Remnants of exquisitely stained glass still ornamented its windows, although the ra...
2. CHAPTER II.The sun was streaming down the narrow rocky street of St. Pucelle, in one long, unbroken line of light. I could hear the shrill voice of Madame Marmoret screaming to frighten aw...
3. CHAPTER III.There was something mysterious about Mr. Lovett’s manner and behaviour after he returned from that visit to Rille, which I could not account for. In the first place he was in th...
4. CHAPTER IV.I am quite unable to remember what I said, or did, in the first shock of meeting him again. His presence in St. Pucelle was so utterly sudden and unexpected to me, that I should...
5. CHAPTER V.The chief feeling that I experienced when I came to review the events of that evening, was, that my unexpected encounter with Cave Charteris seemed to have dragged my mother out...
6. CHAPTER VI.I do not think that if Tessie and Ange had foreseen that the presence of Mr. Charteris under their father’s roof was to entail a series of visits from Miss Sophy Markham, they w...
7. CHAPTER VII.It was about this time that my eyes became first opened to the fact that old Mr. Lovett, notwithstanding his benevolent aspect and many protestations of affection, was exceeding...
8. CHAPTER VIII.I had begun to be ashamed to meet Mrs. Carolus. Ange’s silver earrings had only cost twenty-five francs, but I had not the wherewithal to pay for them, and I felt mean and shabb...
9. CHAPTER IX.My compact with Tessie did not, however, preclude one thing, and that was the taking advice of my friends on the state of my affairs. With the state of those of other people I h...