Married people -- Fiction
These ominous words were said very steadily and precisely, but with a certain sense of nervous excitement in the utterance, by Mr. Charles Tremenheere, one morning in November, in his own drawing-room, and were, I need scarcely say, addressed to his own wife. To whom else coul...
These ominous words were said very steadily and precisely, but with a certain sense of nervous excitement in the utterance, by Mr. Charles Tremenheere, one morning in November,...
2. CHAPTER II.Mr. Tremenheere came home that evening at seven o’clock. It was not his custom to be quite so early. He went late in the morning, and was not unwilling to stay late, and to get...
3. CHAPTER III.Mr. Tremenheere took a very strange step on the morning after this discussion. He went to call on his wife’s chief friend, Miss Elinor Meadows, a single woman of fortune and adv...
4. CHAPTER IV.Before Christmas it was all over. Christmas! Perhaps we make a good deal of unnecessary fuss about this festival--not that the associations about it, the traditions of universal...
5. CHAPTER V.Whether Mrs. Tremenheere had any foundation of justice in the theory which made her take her boy’s education in hand instead of her girl’s, I cannot venture to say; but in the m...
6. CHAPTER VI.A bright July day, early in the month, with London still full, and all the world weary yet toiling on, more or less, in the treadmill work of society; such a day as revives the...
7. CHAPTER VII.I do not know by what charm Miss Meadows had been gained over to tell a fib, and enact a whole little drama of domestic perfidy; but she did it. When Mr. Tremenheere in his sati...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Mrs. Tremenheere rather prided herself on her society; though she had given up so much she had never given up that; the people she knew were not commonplace people, such as you...
9. CHAPTER IX.Meanwhile the day had passed for Vera like a strange sweet dream, too rapid, too full of feeling to be understood. The novelty and the strangeness and the complication of emotio...
10. CHAPTER X.Edward went back to his school-work next day, with the excitement of the last night buzzing through his head. He was a schoolboy according to English custom, and yet he was a ma...
11. CHAPTER XI.Next day! It was a lovely summer day, but very hot and stifling in Hyde Park Square. Miss Campbell did not permit her pupil so much as that wistful gaze from the window across t...
12. CHAPTER XII.After this there followed a very exciting interval to Vera. Fane came again with another mission (nominally) from Miss Meadows, and was tolerably received. Emboldening by this,...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Mrs. Tremenheere had spent a very uneasy month no less than her daughter, but in a way which had no gildings of romance and happiness like Vera’s trouble. The holidays had come,...
14. CHAPTER XIV.“Mother, now you must come to a decision. You cannot keep me longer in suspense. Mr. Bass writes to me that there is only one vacant place in the expedition, and that he cannot...
15. CHAPTER XV.“Miss Vera, oh, where will you wait till I run and let him know? Stop a moment, oh Miss Vera, please. Let me run and let him know! However is he to come, Miss, if you won’t let...
16. CHAPTER XVI.“Nothing, sir, but my mother has stayed behind to be on the spot. She seems to be full of hope,” said Eddy; and then he entered into the details of all they had done. “I should...