Category: Romance
This tale divine--ancient as the beginning of things, fresh and young as the passing hour--has forms and names various as humanity. The story of Aspatria Anneys is but one of these,--one leaf from all the roses in the world, one note of all its myriad of songs.
The ultimatum reached by Fenwick in the consideration of any subject was, to please himself. In the case of Aspatria Anneys he was particularly determined to do so. It was in va...
4. CHAPTER IV.In the upper chamber where Will had left his sister, a great mystery of sorrow was being endured. Aspatria felt as if all had been. Life had no more joy to give, and no greater...
3. CHAPTER III.It was a dull raw day in late autumn, especially dull and raw near the sea, where there was an evil-looking sky to the eastward. Ulfar Fenwick stood at a window in Castle Fenwic...
7. CHAPTER VII.One morning in spring Aspatria stood in a balcony overlooking the principal thoroughfare of Rome,--the Rome of papal government, mythical, mystical, mediaeval in its character....
5. CHAPTER V.Brune arrived at Redware Hall while it was still afternoon, and he found no difficulty in obtaining an interview with its mistress. She was sitting at a table in a large bay-win...
6. CHAPTER VI.During thirty years of the first half of this century Mrs. St. Alban's finishing school for young gentlewomen was a famous institution of its kind. For she had been born to the...
1. CHAPTER I.This tale divine--ancient as the beginning of things, fresh and young as the passing hour--has forms and names various as humanity. The story of Aspatria Anneys is but one of th...