Category: Novels
ALL the morning of that particular 8th of November upon which some of the events of the ensuing story began, a dense fog had been brooding over the Essex marshes. The silence of those gloomy expanses of faded yellow grass and brown slime, deposited by earlier autumnal floods,...
ALL the morning of that particular 8th of November upon which some of the events of the ensuing story began, a dense fog had been brooding over the Essex marshes. The silence of...
2. CHAPTER II.UNKNOWN, however, and unsuspected by herself, Evelyn Manwaring was not without a witness in this her passion of grief. The “odd man,” who had been the last to leave the room, ha...
3. CHAPTER III.SPITE of the natural desire of the reader to plump at once into the _crême de la crême_ of good society, and to accompany Miss Strong and her _protégée_ into the company of a li...
4. CHAPTER IV.MR. CUTHBERT MANWARING had succeeded to the estate of Holmcastle under the provisions of the will of an old bachelor uncle, Algernon by name, who had seldom visited his estate,...
5. CHAPTER V.AVERSE from field sports, and taking little interest in public affairs, Mr. Manwaring had one hobby which he was never tired of riding. Genealogy and Heraldry were his favourite...
6. CHAPTER VI.WILFRED, the youngest of the Holmcastle Family, after following his brother to Eton, where, however, he did not remain long, was sent, in order to prepare for Oxford, to a priva...
7. CHAPTER VII.WILFRED MANWARING’S favourite branch of study was history, and to this he added a taste for antiquities, which, in part perhaps, though with a different effect, he had inherited...
8. CHAPTER VIII.THOUGH, however, Wilfred could not rise, he could, when at last he found himself alone, think; and Heaven only knows how exceedingly bitter were his thoughts. For some hours he...
9. CHAPTER IX.THE letter in which Dr. Massenger acquainted Mr. Manwaring with his son’s delinquency was a very matter-of-fact document, and stated the points which had come to his knowledge w...
10. CHAPTER X.IT was afternoon when Wilfred reached the home of his fathers--that home which was no longer to be his. The old butler, whom he had known from childhood, and who, boy and man, h...
11. CHAPTER XI.THE return of the £10 note, which at first surprised and somewhat perplexed Mr. Manwaring, had the after effect of confirming his belief in his son’s guilt. “Had he not been wel...
12. CHAPTER XII.Hurrah! You are cleared of all suspicion, as I always knew you would be, and--just as I expected--our dear friend, “Young Guttles,” is convicted of the robbery. I am sorry I was...
13. CHAPTER XIII.THE interview which he had had with Dr. Massenger, and the letters he had received and read from Lord Guttleborough and the young Duke of Ribblesdale, had day by day a greater e...
14. CHAPTER XIV.THE Lord of Holmcastle had left directions that his funeral should be a grand one, and that no expense should be spared. All that venal undertakers; all that red-nosed mutes, wi...
15. CHAPTER XV.EVELYN felt much comforted by the Rector’s visit and kindness, but she was not allowed to remain long alone, for the ringing of the door-bell speedily announced the arrival of M...
16. CHAPTER XVI.AT length the weary weeks allotted to Evelyn Manwaring in the home of her fathers drew to their close. It had in all respects been a trying time. It had been the girl’s delight...
17. CHAPTER XVII.THE reader (who is blessed with a good memory) will remember that at the end of our first chapter Miss Sarah Strong had made an appointment to take the newly-arrived Miss Manwar...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.“I CONGRATULATE you, my dear,” said Miss Strong to her companion, as they passed along the cloisters at the conclusion of their visit, “that you have secured the friendship of o...
19. CHAPTER XIX.THE following evening Evelyn fulfilled her engagement, and punctually at eight o’clock arrived at the Duchess’s apartments, where, according to promise, she was introduced to th...
20. CHAPTER XX.MENTION having already been casually made of a certain Lady M’Adam, it will be proper to inform the reader of some of the antecedents of that bright orange luminary and devoted...
21. CHAPTER XXI.IN the ensuing few months, save of course from the clique of “saved” ladies whom we left in the last chapter upon charitable thoughts intent, Evelyn Manwaring won golden opinion...
22. CHAPTER XXII.EARLY in the ensuing month of May, the expected change of regiments took place, and a troop of the Fortieth Dragoons succeeded to the troop of Hussars, which, to the utter despa...
23. CHAPTER XXIII.On leaving Holmcastle, as we have already seen, he took a third class ticket to London; but on reaching Preston Junction, in pursuance of a plan he had already formed, he left t...
24. CHAPTER XXIV.ON his way back to the “Great Atlantic Hotel,” it came on to rain (it generally _does_ rain in Liverpool), and Wilfred, to escape a drenching, took his stand within the pretenti...
25. CHAPTER XXV.IT thrilled Wilfred’s soul, the evening of his arrival, to see the English uniform in the streets, and to hear his native tongue spoken by many amidst the motley crowds which th...
26. CHAPTER XXVI.IT will be remembered that the members of the female Vehme-Gericht had dispersed after having deputed Lady Lavinia Gathercole to despatch a letter to the Duchess of Ribblesdale....
27. CHAPTER XXVII.THE numerous company which filled the Duchess’s two drawing-rooms, in point of fact overflowed into the corridor, which, decorated with beautiful flowers, and having deep window...
28. CHAPTER XXVIII.SPITE of what he had previously expressed to the contrary, Mr. Merivale thought it well to serve a formal notice to quit Holmcastle upon Mr. Tresham Potts, and he accompanied it...
29. CHAPTER XXIX.WHEN the festivities at Holmcastle were over--they lasted three days, and will long be remembered in the lovely Dale of the Arrow--Wilfred and Evelyn, as had been previously arr...