England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
How long were things to go on in their present state? That was the question which, as the spring advanced, Ellis Farrant continually asked himself. One afternoon, towards the end of May, the thought pressed itself upon him more pertinaciously than ever. He was in the smoking-r...
How long were things to go on in their present state? That was the question which, as the spring advanced, Ellis Farrant continually asked himself. One afternoon, towards the en...
2. CHAPTER II.The fall thou darest to despise-- May be the angel's slackened hand Has suffered it that he may rise And take a firmer, surer stand; Or, trusting less to earthly things, May hen...
3. CHAPTER III.As the autumn wove on, both the dog and his master began to show traces of the life they were living. Poor Waif pined for the country. He had always been his master's companion...
4. CHAPTER IV.May we not again say, that in the huge mass of evil, as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working imprisoned; working towards deliverance and triumph? _French Revolut...
5. CHAPTER V."Now this is first rate," said the old captain, as he stepped off the pier at Folkestone on to the steamer. "Ah, Donovan, my lad, if we were going for a good cruise it would do...
6. CHAPTER VI.Eleven o'clock on a May morning, the bright sunshine peeping in obliquely through the _persiennes_, and lighting up the conventional French bed-room, with its wardrobe, mirror,...
7. CHAPTER VII.Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power, Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, A...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Deal meekly, gently, with the hopes that guide The lowliest brother straying from thy side; If right, they bid thee tremble for thine own, If wrong, the verdict is for God alone...
9. CHAPTER IX.It is human character or developed humanity ... that conducts us to our notion of the Character Divine... In proportion as the mysteries of man's goodness unfold themselves to u...
10. CHAPTER X.For more than a year Ellis Farrant had reigned supreme at Oakdene Manor, but, in spite of every effort to enjoy himself and stifle his conscience, he had been exceedingly misera...
11. CHAPTER XI."But am I not the nobler through thy love? O three times less unworthy! likewise thou Art more thro' Love, and greater than thy years. The sun will run his orbit, and the moon H...