# A Simpleton

Author: Reade, Charles, 1814-1884

Genre: Category: Romance

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2301

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Simpleton+Reade&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A young lady sat pricking a framed canvas in the drawing-room of Kent Villa, a mile from Gravesend; she was making, at a cost of time and tinted wool, a chair cover, admirably unfit to be sat upon--except by some severe artist, bent on obliterating discordant colors. To do her justice, her mind was not in her work; for she rustled softly with restlessness as she sat, and she rose three times in twenty minutes, and went to the window. Thence she looked down, over a trim flowery lawn, and long, sloping meadows, on to the silver Thames, alive with steamboats ploughing, white sails bellying, and great ships carrying to and fro the treasures of the globe. From this fair landscape and epitome o...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simpleton-2301/chapters/10/index.md)