Category: Novels
IT was a fine morning in July, when a gentleman who had arrived in town the night before--after an absence from England of several years--walked slowly and musingly up the superb thoroughfare which connects the Regent's park with St. James's.
THE coach dropped Mr. Ferrers at the gate of a villa about three miles from town. The lodge-keeper charged himself with the carpet-bag, and Ferrers strolled, with his hands behi...
5. Chapter 5ERNEST MALTRAVERS was at the height of his reputation; the work which he had deemed the crisis that was to make or mar him was the most brilliantly successful of all he had yet...
4. Chapter 4"The pride too of her step, as light Along the unconscious earth she went, Seemed that of one born with a right To walk some heavenlier element." /Loves of the Angels./
6. Chapter 6"I CAN'T think," said one of a group of young men, loitering by the steps of a clubhouse in St. James's Street--"I can't think what has chanced to Maltravers. Do you observe (as...
7. Chapter 7* * * * "Le brillant de votre esprit donne un si grand eclat a votre teint et a vos yeux, que quoiqu'il semble que l'esprit ne doit toucher que les oreilles, il est pourtaut cer...
2. Chapter 2IT was a fine morning in July, when a gentleman who had arrived in town the night before--after an absence from England of several years--walked slowly and musingly up the super...
1. Chapter 1