Category: Romance
“AT my own quarters trouble unutterable awaited me. While I had amused myself with the more piquant society of Gulnare, my sad sweet love--my Medora--had fled from her solitary bower. I found my household gods shattered; and standing among their ruins, I was fain to confess th...
“AT my own quarters trouble unutterable awaited me. While I had amused myself with the more piquant society of Gulnare, my sad sweet love--my Medora--had fled from her solitary...
2. CHAPTER II.EUSTACE closed the book with a sigh--a sigh for the father he had never known, the father who had never known his birth; a sigh for the mother whose life had been sacrificed on...
3. CHAPTER III.To Lucy Alford the lady of River Lawn had shown herself a kind and generous friend. Not long had the poor child enjoyed the luxurious quiet of the Hampton villa when she was sud...
4. CHAPTER IV.LAURENCE DESMOND heard the sublimely solemn service read above his old tutor’s coffin, and left Ventnor without seeing Lucy Alford. Again and again he told himself that with the...
5. CHAPTER V.FOR Lucy Alford life’s outlook seemed very dreary after that chill day in February, when her father’s bones were laid in their last resting-place. He had not been a good father-...
6. CHAPTER VI.“Yes, Lucy. You remember what I told you about Mrs. Fitzpatrick, that delightful person in Ireland. I wrote to her a few days ago, you know, telling her of my plans for you,--fo...
7. CHAPTER VII.MRS. COLTON entered the drawing-room by the door as Laurence Desmond came in by the window. “I have given you the sparkling Rüdesheimer instead of champagne, Mr. Desmond,” she s...
8. CHAPTER VIII.MR. JERNINGHAM was prompt to comply with his wife’s request. On the second morning after the despatch of Emily’s letter, the master of Greenlands appeared at River Lawn; and thi...
9. CHAPTER IX.BEFORE Eustace Thorburn could nerve himself for the self-sacrificial act which was to accomplish his banishment from that Berkshire Eden known as Greenlands, Fate took the doing...
10. CHAPTER X.FOR Emily Jerningham life’s fitful fever was ended. The change to a softer climate, the welcome warmth of southern breezes, had given her a brief respite, but her doom had been...
11. CHAPTER XI.UPON Mr. Jerningham the tidings of his wife’s death came suddenly, but not unexpectedly. He hastened to arrange that all honour should be paid to the ashes of this fair scion of...
12. CHAPTER XII.THE travellers had not left Greenlands two days when Eustace Thorburn arrived there. He had finished his work in Paris a month sooner than he had expected to do so, and had been...
13. CHAPTER XIII.A SEVENTEEN hours’ journey conveyed Mr. Mayfield and his nephew to the granite city of Aberdeen, with only a quarter of an hour’s pause at Carlisle, where the travellers were tu...
14. CHAPTER XIV.BETWEEN Killalochie and Halko’s Head the road was of the loneliest. On his morning journey Eustace Thorburn had encountered about three people, sturdy mountaineers, who gave him...
15. CHAPTER XV.THE day that followed was even more utterly blank and hopeless than the last. Mr. Jerningham had sent scouts in every direction, and both from him and Daniel the men had receive...
16. CHAPTER XVI.THE Aberdeen surgeon arrived late at night, but the setting of the broken arm was deferred till the next day. The patient was now delirious, and Mr. Ramsay, the great man from A...