Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
"There can't be a doubt," said my father, "that to each of the main divisions of your work--whether you call them Books or Parts--you should prefix an Initial or Introductory Chapter."
Impelled by motives which we own to be with difficulty effectively justifiable, and which we must resolve into an overmastering anxiety to behold how doomed human nature can con...
6. CHAPTER VI.Mr Egerton glanced over the pile of letters placed beside him, and first he tore up some, scarcely read, and threw them into the waste-basket. Public men have such odd out-of-th...
5. CHAPTER V.The morning after this visit of Frank Hazeldean's to Rood Hall, the Right Honourable Audley Egerton, member of parliament, privy councillor, and minister of a high department in...
2. CHAPTER II."It is a sweet pretty place," thought Frank, as he opened the gate which led across the fields to the Casino, that smiled down upon him with its plaster pilasters. "I wonder, th...
3. CHAPTER III.Frank looked right ahead, and saw a square house that, in spite of modern sash-windows, was evidently of remote antiquity--a high conical roof; a stack of tall quaint chimney-po...
1. BOOK II--INITIAL CHAPTER:--INFORMING THE READER HOW THIS WORK CAME TO"There can't be a doubt," said my father, "that to each of the main divisions of your work--whether you call them Books or Parts--you should prefix an Initial or Introductory Ch...
4. CHAPTER IV.Mrs Leslie came up in fidget and in fuss; she leant over Randal's shoulder and read the card. Written in pen and ink, with an attempt at imitation of printed Roman character, th...