Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
"It was no bad idea of yours, Pisistratus," said my father graciously, "to depict the heightened affections and the serious intention's of Signior Riccabocca by a single stroke--_He left off his spectacles!_ Good."
Lansmere was situated in the county adjoining, that which contained the village of Hazeldean. Late at noon the Parson crossed the little stream which divided the two shires, and...
1. BOOK IV.--INITIAL CHAPTER:--COMPRISING MR CAXTON'S OPINIONS ON THE"It was no bad idea of yours, Pisistratus," said my father graciously, "to depict the heightened affections and the serious intention's of Signior Riccabocca by a single stroke-...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Spring had come again; and one beautiful May-day, Leonard Fairfield sate beside the little fountain which he had now actually constructed in the garden. The butterflies were hov...
8. CHAPTER VII.Now from that day the humble Lenny and the regal Violante became great friends. With what pride he taught her to distinguish between celery and weeds--and how proud too was she...
12. CHAPTER XI.It was about a year after Leonard's discovery of the family MSS. that Parson Dale borrowed the quietest pad mare in the Squire's stables, and set out on an equestrian excursion....
7. CHAPTER VI.As Violante became more familiar with her new home, and those around her became more familiar with Violante, she was remarked for a certain stateliness of manner and bearing, wh...
10. CHAPTER IX.Shortly after this discourse of Riccabocca's, an incident occurred to Leonard that served to carry his mind into new directions. One evening, when his mother was out, he was at...
11. CHAPTER X.It is difficult to exaggerate the effect that this discovery produced on Leonard's train of thought. Some one belonging to his own humble race had, then, preceded him in his str...
3. CHAPTER II.Matrimony is certainly a great change in life. One is astonished not to find a notable alteration in one's friend, even if he or she have been only wedded a week. In the instanc...
6. CHAPTER V.The tinker was seated under a hedge, hammering away at an old kettle--with a little fire burning in front of him--and the donkey hard by, indulging in a placid doze. Mr Sprott l...
5. CHAPTER IV.There was one person in the establishment of Dr Riccabocca, who was satisfied neither with the marriage of his master nor the arrival of Violante--and that was our friend Lenny...
4. CHAPTER III.Look at her now, as, released from those kindly arms, she stands, still clinging with one hand to her new mamma, and holding out the other to Riccabocca--with those large dark e...
2. chapter xi., of Aulus Gellius."For all that," said Blanche, half-archly, half-demurely, with a smile in the eye, and a pout of the lip, "I don't remember that Pisistratus, in the days when he wished to be mo...