Category: Novels
The day was warm, and there was no shade; out of the olive woods which they had left behind, and where all was soft coolness and freshness, they had emerged into a piece of road widened and perfected by recent improvements till it was as shelterless as a broad street. High wal...
When one has made up one’s mind to reopen a painful subject after dinner, the preliminary meal is not usually a very pleasant one; nor, with the tremor of preparation in one’s m...
2. CHAPTER II.The Warings had been settled at Bordighera almost as long as Frances could remember. She had known no other way of living than that which could be carried on under the painted r...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Waring went out with Constance when the sun got low in the skies. He took a much longer walk than was at all usual to him, and pointed out to her many points of view. The paths...
12. CHAPTER XII.The days ran on for about a week with a suppressed and agitating expectation in them, which seemed to Frances to blur and muddle all the outlines, so that she could not recollec...
1. CHAPTER I.The day was warm, and there was no shade; out of the olive woods which they had left behind, and where all was soft coolness and freshness, they had emerged into a piece of road...
4. CHAPTER IV.It was natural that this occurrence should take a great hold of the girl’s mind. It was not the first time that she had speculated concerning their life. A life which one has al...
11. CHAPTER XI.Within the first few days, a great many of these conversations took place, and Frances gradually formed an idea to herself--not, perhaps, very like reality, but yet an idea--of...
9. CHAPTER IX.“What is this I hear about Waring?” said General Gaunt, walking out upon the loggia, where the Durants were sitting, on the same memorable afternoon on which all that has been a...
13. CHAPTER XIII.“No, indeed. I wish I did--at least, that is not what I mean. But I wish you did not think it necessary to stay in a place like this. Why should you shut yourself out from the w...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Frances dropped the hand which she had laid upon his arm. “It shall be exactly as you please, papa. I seem to know a great deal--oh, a great deal more than I knew at dinner. I d...
7. CHAPTER VII.“She has come to stay. She is my sister; papa’s daughter as much as I am. She has come--home.” Frances was a little uncertain about the word, and it was only “_a casa_” that she...
16. CHAPTER XVI.There was no more said for a day or two about the journey. But that it was to take place, that Markham was waiting till his step-sister was ready, and that Frances was making he...
5. CHAPTER V.It is a common impression that happiness and unhappiness are permanent states of mind, and that for long tracts of our lives we are under the continuous sway of one or other of...
15. CHAPTER XV.The walk with Constance, though he had set out upon it reluctantly, had done Waring great good. He was comparatively rehabilitated in his own eyes. Between her and him there was...
3. CHAPTER III.As it turned out, Frances had not the courage. Mr Waring strolled into the loggia shortly after Miss Durant had left her. He smiled when he heard of her visit, and asked what ne...
10. CHAPTER X.The revelation which thus burst upon Mr Durant was known throughout the length and breadth of Bordighera, as that good man said, before the day was out. The expression was not s...