Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
The next morning Harley appeared at breakfast. He was in gay spirits, and conversed more freely with Violante than he had yet done. He seemed to amuse himself by attacking all she said, and provoking her to argument. Violante was naturally a very earnest person; whether grave...
But Frank had arrived in Curzon Street--leapt from the cabriolet--knocked at the door, which was opened by a strange-looking man in a buff waistcoat and corduroy smalls. Frank g...
9. CHAPTER XVIII.Early the next day Randal Leslie was in the luxurious business-room of Baron Levy. How unlike the cold Doric simplicity of the statesman's library! Axminster carpets three inche...
3. CHAPTER XII."Let the carriage go to the Clarendon," said Harley to his servant; "I and Mr Oran will walk to town. Leonard, I think you would rejoice at an occasion to serve your old friends...
15. CHAPTER XXIV.The next morning Frank Hazeldean was sitting over his solitary breakfast-table. It was long past noon. The young man had risen early, it is true, to attend his military duties,...
1. BOOK X. CONTINUED.--CHAPTER X.The next morning Harley appeared at breakfast. He was in gay spirits, and conversed more freely with Violante than he had yet done. He seemed to amuse himself by attacking all s...
5. CHAPTER XIV.But Parliament had met. Events that belong to history had contributed yet more to weaken the administration. Randal Leslie's interest became absorbed in politics; for the stake...
7. CHAPTER XVI.Baron Levy did not execute his threat of calling on Egerton the next morning. Perhaps he shrank from again meeting the flash of those indignant eyes. And indeed Egerton was too...
8. CHAPTER XVII.It was past midnight when Audley Egerton summoned Randal. The statesman was then alone, seated before his great desk, with its manifold compartments, and engaged on the task of...
10. CHAPTER XIX.When a clever man resolves on a villanous action, he hastens, by the exercise of his cleverness, to get rid of the sense of his villany. With more than his usual alertness, Rand...
4. CHAPTER XIII.Some days have passed by. Leonard and Beatrice di Negra have already made friends. Harley is satisfied with his young friend's report. He himself has been actively occupied. He...
13. CHAPTER XXII.Harley had made one notable oversight in that appeal to Beatrice's better and gentler nature, which he intrusted to the advocacy of Leonard--a scheme in itself very characterist...
11. CHAPTER XX."I have just been at our friend Levy's," said Randal when he and Dick were outside the street door. "He, like you, is full of politics--pleasant man--for the business he is said...
6. CHAPTER XV.But not on the threatened question was that eventful campaign of Party decided. The government fell less in battle than skirmish. It was one fatal Monday--a dull question of fin...
12. CHAPTER XXI.Randal's mind was made up. All he had learned in regard to Levy had confirmed his resolves or dissipated his scruples. He had started from the improbability that Peschiera would...
14. CHAPTER XXIII.Punctually at eight o'clock that evening, Baron Levy welcomed the new ally he had secured. The pair dined _en tête à tête_, discussing general matters till the servants left the...
2. CHAPTER XI.Leonard entered on the scene, and joined the party in the garden. The Countess, perhaps to please her son, was more than civil--she was markedly kind to him. She noticed him mor...