Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
Five wretched days pass, and Katie hardly knows how they go, for she counts time only by the arrival of the mail-bag. Yet no letter has come from Sir Herbert, and she is almost distracted. Has he really set her free? cast her off? And will he never again come, or send, or speak?
Five wretched days pass, and Katie hardly knows how they go, for she counts time only by the arrival of the mail-bag. Yet no letter has come from Sir Herbert, and she is almost...
2. CHAPTER XV.--NEWS AT LAST.Katie must have slept, for towards morning she dreams she is out on the Short Reefs, and sees the _Daring_ go down with her husband, father, and all her household on board. They...
3. CHAPTER I.--THE BETROTHAL.'And so, Mabel, Wilfred Merton has proposed to you?' The speaker, as he made this remark, laid down the paper which he had been reading, and looked across the room at its other...
4. CHAPTER II.--THE PARTING.Mr Merton was a banker in a good position in London, and he had naturally wished Wilfred, who was his only child, to enter into his office and succeed him in his business. But u...