English fiction -- 19th century
Market day at Haltham, and the primitive little town in an uproar. Huge oxen, with shaggy coats and wide-spreading horns, were being driven along the road, and floundering in their dismay against any luckless passenger that crossed their path. Meek sheep, with their lambs trot...
Market day at Haltham, and the primitive little town in an uproar. Huge oxen, with shaggy coats and wide-spreading horns, were being driven along the road, and floundering in th...
2. CHAPTER II.Without the disfiguring encumbrance of her walking attire she really looked beautiful, particularly when she had somewhat loosened her heavy knot of hair and let it rest upon he...
3. CHAPTER III.‘A friend!’ exclaimed Mr Gribble; ‘what friends have you in Deepdale whose presence prevents my speaking to you? Is it a lady friend? I presume you would not be sitting alone wi...
4. CHAPTER IV.Mr Gribble had been there before her, of course. He had trotted over, big with importance, and ruffled like an angry cockerel, directly after breakfast, to tell the parson of th...
5. CHAPTER V.It was a terrible shock to her--so sudden and so unexpected that for some time she could not believe it to be true. She did not care for the dead man, far from it. For the last...
6. CHAPTER VI.Highbridge Farm stood on the summit of the hill which formed one side of the valley of Deepdale, and was by far the most important building in the neighbourhood. It had been in...
7. CHAPTER VII.Mrs Measures would have followed Paula Stafford to the schoolhouse that very evening if her husband had not prevented it. He had told the girl to take a couple of days to think...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Mrs Sutton, Paula’s mother (for Stafford was entirely an assumed name) was standing outside her cottage door at the close of that summer’s evening, little dreaming that her daug...
9. CHAPTER IX.Paula, on the contrary, happy to be once more in her mother’s arms, slept soundly, and dreamt of a possible future. All her anxieties and doubts were smoothed away, as she thoug...
10. CHAPTER X.Although Paula remained rather thoughtful and pensive during the next few days, she soon recovered her serenity, and began to look forward, in secret, to the moment when she sho...
11. CHAPTER XI.‘Here comes Mr Rushton,’ exclaimed Mrs Measures, ‘and how bright and happy he looks. Very different from his usual appearance lately. I wonder if he has had any good news?’
12. CHAPTER XII.A few days after this interview a tea-party was assembled at the house of Mr Gribble. A rumour of the impending marriage of Hal Rushton with the late ‘school teacher’ had circul...