Category: Novels
The drawing-room within was very different from the wild conflict of light and darkness outside. There was music going on at one end, some people were reading, some talking. There were flirtations in hand, and grave discussions. In short, the evening was being spent as people...
'I am not dreaming,' she said very quietly. There was no appearance of excitement about her. She sat with her hands clasped tightly together, and her eyes wandering into the unk...
12. CHAPTER XII.Helen Drummond had a tedious voyage from Southampton to St Malo. She was not a good sailor, nor indeed a good traveller in any way. She was not rich enough to procure for hersel...
3. CHAPTER III.Mrs Burton said nothing about her troubles to any one: she avoided rather than sought confidential intercourse with her husband. She formed her plans and declined to receive any...
1. CHAPTER I.The drawing-room within was very different from the wild conflict of light and darkness outside. There was music going on at one end, some people were reading, some talking. The...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Gatehouse was full of long, rambling, dark passages with mysterious closets at each elbow of them, or curious little unused rooms--passages which had struck terror to Norah'...
10. CHAPTER X.Mr Baldwin came back to Dura in the afternoon, worn out and disappointed--foiled by the simple fact, which had never occurred to the old man as possible, that Clary--his innocen...
11. CHAPTER XI.Mrs Burton took her new problem away with her into the quiet of her room. It was a question which had never occurred to her before. Some few first principles even an inquiring m...
13. CHAPTER XIII.This was the end of Mr Burton of Dura--Mr Burton, of the great City firm, he who had been known as one of the greatest of commercial magnitudes, he who had ruined as many people...
9. CHAPTER IX.Mrs Burton was alone in her deserted house. The house was not deserted in the common sense of the word. Up-stairs at this very moment it was buzzing with life and movement; and...
7. CHAPTER VII.While her mother was thus occupied Norah was taking her fill of pleasure. She 'danced every dance'--beatific fulfilment of every girlish wish in respect to a ball. She was so yo...
2. CHAPTER II.It was a long time before it was fully understood in Dura what had become of Ned. At first it was said he had gone on a visit, then that he had joined some of his college friend...
8. CHAPTER VIII.A summer night passes quickly to those who have need of darkness for their movements. When Mrs Drummond found herself at liberty to carry out the plan she had formed, the time b...
14. CHAPTER XIV.And now all the threads are shortening in the shuttle, and the web is nearly woven out. If any one has ever supposed for a moment that Robert Drummond and his wife would make a...
4. CHAPTER IV.It was difficult for the two who had thus parted at night to meet again at the breakfast-table next morning without any sign of that encounter, before the sharp eyes of Aunt Mar...