Category: Novels

Daireen. Volume 1 of 2

(Transcriber's Note: Chapters XX to XXIV were taken from a print copy of a different edition as these chapters were missing from the 1889 print edition from which the rest of the Project Gutenberg edition was taken. In the inserted four chapters it will be noted that the norma...

Chapters

12. CHAPTER XI.

|WHO does not know the delightful monotony of a voyage southward, broken only at the intervals of anchoring beneath the brilliant green slopes of Madeira or under the grim shado...

4. CHAPTER III.

|THE road upon which the car was driving was made round an elevated part of the coast of the lough. It curved away from where the castle of The Macnamaras was situated on one si...

16. CHAPTER XV.

|IT was the general opinion in the cabin that Miss Gerald--the young lady who was in such an exclusive set--had shown very doubtful taste in being the first to discover the man...

10. CHAPTER IX.

Thus has he--and many more of the same breed that I know the drossy age dotes on--only got the tune of the time... a kind of yesty collection which carries them through and thro...

19. CHAPTER XVIII.

|MRS. Crawford felt that she was being unkindly dealt with by Fate in many matters. She had formed certain plans on coming aboard the steamer and on taking in at a glance the po...

20. CHAPTER XIX.

O my old friend, thy face is valanced since I saw thee last.... What, my young lady and mistress! By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last.... You a...

23. CHAPTER XXII.

|THE band of the gallant Bayonetteers was making the calm air of Government House gardens melodious with the strains of an entrancing German valse not more than a year old, whic...

18. CHAPTER XVII.

|IT was very generally thought that it was a fortunate circumstance for Mr. Oswin Markham that there chanced to be in the fore-cabin of the steamer an enterprising American spec...

11. CHAPTER X.

|THE information which Daireen had received on the unimpeachable authority of the special correspondent of the _Dominant Trumpeter_ was somewhat puzzling to her at first; but as...

8. CHAPTER VII.

|AWAY from the glens and the heather-clad mountains, from the blue loughs and their islands of arbutus, from the harp-music, and from the ocean-music which makes those who hear...

2. CHAPTER I.

|MY son,” said The Macnamara with an air of grandeur, “my son, you've forgotten what's due”--he pronounced it “jew”--“to yourself, what's due to your father, what's due to your...

6. CHAPTER V.

|TO do The Macnamara justice, while he was driving homeward upon that very shaky car round the lovely coast, he was somewhat disturbed in mind as he reflected upon the possible...

17. CHAPTER XVI.

|IT could hardly be expected that there should be in the mind of Daireen Gerald a total absence of interest in the man who by her aid had been rescued from the deep. To be sure,...

22. CHAPTER XXI.

|WHEN evening came Daireen and her father sat out upon their chairs on the stoëp in front of the house. The sun had for long been hidden by the great peak, though to the rest of...

3. CHAPTER II.

|WHEN the head of a community has, after due deliberation, resolved upon the carrying out of any bold social step, he may expect to meet with the opposition that invariably obst...

13. CHAPTER XII.

|THE thin white silk thread of a moon was hanging in the blue twilight over the darkened western slope of the island, and almost within the horns of its crescent a planet was bu...

7. CHAPTER VI.

|THE sounds of wild harp-music were ascending at even from the depths of Glenmara. The sun had sunk, and the hues that had been woven round the west were wasting themselves away...

14. CHAPTER XIII.

|THE question which suggested itself to Daireen as to the possibility of seeing Standish aboard the steamer, was not the only one that occupied her thoughts. How had he come abo...

21. CHAPTER XX.

|WHAT an extraordinary affair!' said Mrs. Crawford, turning from where she had been watching the departure of the colonel and his daughter and that tall handsome young friend of...

15. CHAPTER XIV.

|A SINGLE cry of terror was all that Daireen uttered as she fell back upon her berth. An instant more and she was standing with white lips, and hands that were untrembling as th...

5. CHAPTER IV.

|THE Macnamara had been led away from his companionship in that old oak room by the time his son and Miss Gerald returned from the garden, and the consciousness of his own digni...

9. CHAPTER VIII.

|MRS. Crawford absolutely clung to Daireen all this evening. When the whist parties were formed in the cabin she brought the girl on deck and instructed her in some of the matte...

1. Volume 1 of 2

(Transcriber's Note: Chapters XX to XXIV were taken from a print copy of a different edition as these chapters were missing from the 1889 print edition from which the rest of th...