Category: Romance
HE was still pondering over the many aspects of the question which, to his mind, needed solution, when he returned to the Castle, to find Lord Fotheringay in a chair by the side of a gaunt old man who, at one period of his life, had probably been tall, but who was now stooped...
WHEN the fishing boats came within half a cable’s length of the cutter, Lord Innisfail gave up the tiller to Brian, who was well qualified to be the organizer of the expedition,...
13. CHAPTER XXXII.--ON SHAKESPEARE AND SUPPER.CARRIAGES by the score were waiting at the fine Corinthian entrance to the Legitimate, when Harold and Archie reached the theatre in their hansom. The _façade_ of the Legitimate...
7. CHAPTER XXVI.--ON FRANKNESS AND FRIENDSHIP.BRIAN took care that no moment was lost. In the course of a very few minutes Lord Fotheringay was seated on the windward thwarts of the boat, his hands grasping the gunwale to r...
14. CHAPTER XXXIII.--ON BLESSING OR DOOM.It was apparent to him that Mrs. Mowbray had somehow obtained a circumstantial account of the appearance of Beatrice Avon at the Irish Castle, and of the effect that had been pr...
15. CHAPTER XXXIV.--ON THE MESSAGE OF THE LILY.WALKING Westward to his rooms, he enjoyed once again the same feeling of exultation, which had been his on the evening of the return from the seal-hunt. He felt that she was who...
6. CHAPTER XXV.--ON THE SOCIAL VALUE OF THE REPROBATE.Mrs. Burgoyne congratulated Lady Innisfail upon this remarkable occurrence, and Lady Innisfail began to hope that it might get talked about. If her autumn party at Castle Innisf...
1. CHAPTER XX.--ON AN OAK SETTEE.HE was still pondering over the many aspects of the question which, to his mind, needed solution, when he returned to the Castle, to find Lord Fotheringay in a chair by the side...
8. CHAPTER XXVII.--ON CIRCUMVENTING A STAG.It was with a feeling of exultation that he had sat in the bows of the cutter _Acushla_ on her return to her moorings after that seal-hunt which everyone agreed had been an extr...
17. CHAPTER XXXVI.--ON THE INFLUENCE OF A MAN OF THE WORLD.It was true then--what he had surmised was true! Edmund Airey had shown himself to be actuated by a stronger impulse than a desire to assist Helen Craven to realize her hopes--s...
12. CHAPTER XXXI.--ON A BLACK SHEEP.“Oh, he’s a good old soul who was kicked out of the Church by the bishop for doing something or other. He’s useful to me--keeps my correspondence in order--spots the chaps that...
16. CHAPTER XXXV.--ON THE HOME.HAROLD WYNNE remembered how he had made up his mind to judge whether or not Edmund Airey had been simply playing, in respect of Beatrice, the part which, according to Mrs. Mowbr...
2. CHAPTER XXI.--ON THE ELEMENTS OF PARTY POLITICS.He had been considering all the afternoon the possibility of carrying out the idea which it seemed Helen Craven had on her mind as well; but it had never occurred to him that hi...
10. CHAPTER XXIX.--ON THE ADVANTAGES OF READY MONEY.ARCHIE BROWN was the only son of Mr. John Brown, the eminent contractor. Mr. John Brown had been a man of simple habits and no tastes. When a working navvy he had acquired a lik...
3. CHAPTER XXII.--ON THE WISDOM OP THE MATRONS.LADY INNISFAIL made a confession to one of her guests--a certain Mrs. Burgoyne--who was always delighted to play the _rôle_ of receiver of confessions. The date at which Lady In...
4. CHAPTER XXIII.--ON THE ATLANTIC.THE boats were scattered like milestones--as was stated by Brian--through the sinuous length of Lough Suangorm. The cutter yacht _Acushla_ was leading the fleet out to the Atlan...
9. CHAPTER XXVIII.--ON ENJOYING A RESPITE.IT was the first week in October when Harold Wynne found himself in London. He had got a letter from Beatrice in which she told him that she and her father would return to Londo...
11. CHAPTER XXX.--ON THE LEGITIMATE IN ART.WHEN the history of the drama in England during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century comes to be written, the episode of the management of the Legitimate Theatre by M...
18. CHAPTER XXXVII.--ON THE DEFECTIVE LINK.HAROLD had a note written to Mrs. Lampson, begging her to invite his friend, Mr. Archie Brown, to join her party at Abbeylands, almost before Mr. Playdell had left the street. H...