Category: Romance
A few years ago there was a young _débutante_ in Melbourne whose name was Rachel Fetherstonhaugh. She had risen upon the social horizon suddenly, like a new star--or, one might almost say, like a comet, so unusually bright was she, and so much talked about; and no one quite kn...
The races were over at four o'clock, with the exception of the "Consolation Stakes," and a few other informal affairs, upon which Mr. Thornley did not condescend to adjudicate;...
11. CHAPTER XI.Of course it is well understood, without further explanation, that Mr. Dalrymple and Rachel were in the position of the Sleeping Beauty and her prince when the spell that held l...
3. CHAPTER III.While her aunt and cousin were discussing her downstairs, Miss Fetherstonhaugh was dressing herself for dinner in her little chamber at the top of the house. This was a part of...
1. CHAPTER I.A few years ago there was a young _débutante_ in Melbourne whose name was Rachel Fetherstonhaugh. She had risen upon the social horizon suddenly, like a new star--or, one might...
4. CHAPTER IV.A girl of eighteen is popularly supposed to be grown up--to have all wisdom and knowledge necessary for her guidance and protection through the supreme difficulties of a woman's...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Adelonga at about nine o'clock on the morning of the race day would have presented to the eye of the distinguished traveller--who, however, did not happen to be there, though he...
7. CHAPTER VII."If I had not the house to look after--and there is not much to interest one in that at present--I declare life would not be worth the trouble it entails in the mere matter of d...
2. CHAPTER II.The drawing-room of the house in Toorak where our heroine lived, looked very cosy and comfortable a few hours later in the ruddy glow of the firelight. It was a little before th...
6. CHAPTER VI.There was of course no opposition to Rachel's engagement. Mr. Hardy, away from his office, was simply Mrs. Hardy's husband, not because he had no will of his own, but because he...
9. CHAPTER IX."Who is Mr. Roden Dalrymple?" asked Rachel presently. Mr. Thornley was escorting her back to her aunt, and the person in question was riding across the ground--slowly, as he had...
12. CHAPTER XII.Wandering about that afternoon in an aimless and restless manner, Rachel entered the drawing-room through the conservatory door, and found her cousin sitting there alone, at her...
5. CHAPTER V.They rode home sedately in the cool and quiet evening. Mr. Kingston, having accomplished the end for which he had contrived this unchaperoned expedition, was content to keep clo...