Category: Historical Novels

Colin Clink, Volume 2 (of 3)

Having entered the room, Miss Sowersoft first peeped out to see that no listeners were in the neighbourhood, and then cautiously closed the door,--all the blood in her veins mustering up in red rebellion against poor Fanny, as she stared at that young woman through two dilated...

Chapters

20. CHAPTER XX.

On the last afternoon of his intended stay in town, Mr. Palethorpe rambled as far as Regent's Park, and into the Zoological Gardens, where he amused himself some time by temptin...

23. CHAPTER XXIII.

In a bye-lane leading out of Hare Street, which, as my readers must be informed, is situated about the middle of the parish of Bethnal Green, there resided a certain tradesman,...

26. CHAPTER XXVI.

He addressed himself very familiarly to the Squire, but scarcely cast a look upon Colin, whom, “disguised as a gentleman,” he did not seem to recollect, until such time as Mr. L...

27. CHAPTER XXVII.

It was about four o'clock--sometime before daylight--one morning, nearly a month after the events last described, that Mr. Lupton and Colin might have been seen wending their wa...

15. CHAPTER XV.

In the course of some subsequent conversation, Colin's friend the coachman ascertained that his “green” passenger came from some place in the county of York, and instantaneously...

22. CHAPTER XXII.

Not long had Colin been at home before a message was sent up by Miss Wintlebury, begging the favour of a few minutes' conversation with him as early as it might be convenient to...

17. CHAPTER XVII.

The entrance to the “saloon” of the Tavern where the Concert was to be held lay through a dram-shop. As Colin and his companion passed the bar, the latter familiarly recognised...

14. CHAPTER XIV.

The good people of the Great City possess but a slight idea of the light in which they and the modern Babylon are regarded by the remote and rustic natives of the provinces. Col...

3. CHAPTER III.

In the bar of the little tavern at Bramleigh, Doctor Rowel was seated before a round table, on which stood a glass of cold sherry and water, with a thin biscuit on a little plat...

5. CHAPTER V.

The evening was warm and fine; and the gentle slope, on the top of which Dr. Rowel's establishment stood, was coloured with the setting light of the sun; as, with the glass-door...

9. CHAPTER IX.

After the lapse of some few days, during which Mr. Lupton left the hall on his proposed brief journey,--(though not without first sending a messenger to Whinmoor with a small pa...

13. CHAPTER XIII.

When Colin had taken leave of his friends, and passed out of his mother's house, he found the night, as he thought, peculiarly adapted for his purpose. The air was dark and trou...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

When Colin arrived at Kiddal Hall, Mr. Lupton was quietly reposing himself on a small couch placed near the widely-opened window of his drawing-room, and inhaling the fragrance...

25. CHAPTER XXV

On reaching the hotel, according to appointment, Colin found Mr. Lupton seated in a private room up-stairs, with a table neatly spread for two beside him, but as yet containing...

11. CHAPTER XI.

As Mrs. Rowel very strictly kept her word with Fanny, and contrived to evade telling the doctor any portion of the discovery that had been made, that gentleman remained in the h...

24. CHAPTER XXIV.

It was not during the six days only, but on Sundays also, that Colin found employment at Peter Veriquear's. As regularly as the Sabbath came, he was converted into an animal of...

4. CHAPTER IV.

Having in some degree recovered from the terror inspired by Skinwell's denunciation, Fanny occupied herself in calling together all the fragments of information of which she had...

2. CHAPTER II.

After the time spoken of in the preceding chapter, a month of the fairest season of the year passed away, during which our hero, Colin, continued to improve in health and streng...

7. CHAPTER VII.

A coroner's jury was summoned to hold an inquest at the tavern at Bramleigh, on the body of Mr. Skinwell. The men composing this jury were such ignorant louts, that Doctor Rowel...

12. CHAPTER XII.

From the time at which James Woodruff had received the little packet, up to the eventful night when the attempt to extricate him from confinement was to be made, Colin had busil...

18. CHAPTER XVIII.

During the time the transactions recently related were progressing, a strange hubbub had been raised at Whinmoor touching Colin s disappearance. Palethorpe waxed desperate, and...

21. CHAPTER XXI.

By this time Colin's resources had become so low that but thirteen shillings remained to him of all he had brought from home; and of that small sum about one-half would be due t...

1. CHAPTER I.

Having entered the room, Miss Sowersoft first peeped out to see that no listeners were in the neighbourhood, and then cautiously closed the door,--all the blood in her veins mus...

16. CHAPTER XVI.

The temptations of the Yorkshire House were not sufficiently great to induce Colin to remain in it after the conclusion of the foregoing adventure. Having returned to discharge...

19. CHAPTER XIX.

No sooner had Mr. Palethorpe arrived, than following Dr. Rowel's directions, he marched off in a very business-like manner to the Yorkshire House, and inquired for Colin Clink....

6. CHAPTER VI.

“How much safer am I now?” thought the doctor, as he pursued his way home in the dark, and reflected on all that had just transpired, and on the probable consequences of it. “To...

10. CHAPTER X.

When Fanny was sufficiently recovered, Mrs. Rowel questioned her very particularly upon the circumstances that had occurred, and exhibited a great deal of laudable curiosity to...