Category: Historical Novels
Now that I have finished the account of the last of the series of unsuccessful attempts which were made to find the will, I must hurry over the subsequent events of my life in a much briefer and more concise way. It is now nearly six years since Robert Gregory died, and I must...
Now that I have finished the account of the last of the series of unsuccessful attempts which were made to find the will, I must hurry over the subsequent events of my life in a...
8. CHAPTER VIII.I take up my pen again, but in what a different spirit to that with which I laid it down, as I thought for ever. Then I believed that I had done with the world; that its joys an...
2. CHAPTER II.It was dusk when we got to Putney. We had left all our heavy baggage, to be sent up after us when we should have got into a house, and had brought up only what we should require...
3. CHAPTER III.A very touching picture Sophy Gregory presented as she sat in the little parlour at work, a week after Dr. Ashleigh's visit; in her mourning dress, and with the tiny fatherless...
13. CHAPTER XIII.For nearly a mile Sophy ran, hope and excitement lending her unnatural strength and speed. Then for a little time she broke into a walk, drawing her breath in short quick sobs....
4. CHAPTER IV.We had not much society at Putney--that is, not much ladies' society. Putney is too near to London for people to call upon new comers; so the only acquaintances we made were the...
5. CHAPTER V.And now, when all seemed so fair and smooth, when I thought that at last fortune had resolved to make amends for all her frowns--with Harry looking forward hopefully to his new...
14. CHAPTER XIV.For a long week Sophy Gregory lay between life and death, and the doctors who attended her thought very badly of her case, and doubted much whether--even if, contrary to their e...
6. CHAPTER VI.James Fielding being gone, Sophy proceeded to put her long-cherished plans into execution. She gave notice to Mrs. Billow that she was going to leave. Had she been informed that...
7. CHAPTER VII.And so I returned to dear old Canterbury. I had so many friends there, and the town itself, which I loved better than them all, that as I looked out of the window of the fly as...
12. CHAPTER XII.After Father Eustace had gone, Sophy sat herself down in the kitchen, and watched the clock for ten minutes, in case her master might have forgotten something, and driven back a...
10. CHAPTER X.It is a year now since I wrote any of this story, and this time I shall really finish it. How little do we foresee the course of events! and certainly, when I last laid down my...
11. CHAPTER XI.And so Sophy succeeded in the first step of her enterprise, and was promoted to the honourable position of servant to Father Eustace, _vice_ old Peggy resigned; and, although sh...
9. CHAPTER IX.And now I have told of the joyful news which has so wonderfully altered the current of my life, and restored me to youth and happiness, I must relate another incident which happ...