Category: Novels
“My dear Miss Standen,--Now that the arch-enemy of mankind (in reality he is often a friend) has deprived you of your--shall I say foster mother? it is time for me to say that I hope you will always regard me as a friend, who has known you from your earliest childhood. There a...
“My dear Miss Standen,--Now that the arch-enemy of mankind (in reality he is often a friend) has deprived you of your--shall I say foster mother? it is time for me to say that I...
2. CHAPTER II.A railway train is sometimes the scene of much misery in those who travel by its carriages; sometimes of much mirth, most often of the assumed indifference adopted by English pe...
3. CHAPTER III.“My dear, Mr. Keene was perfectly right to advise you as he did. A man of the world’s advice may always be taken in matters of this sort; and a girl who lives alone is always op...
4. CHAPTER IV.She had of course told him of her good fortune in meeting with the Carrolls, and when he saw the genuine affection they both felt for her, and heard from the novelist how deligh...