Category: Novels
Amidst the anxieties of making salads, the desire to convert Heather from the evils and dangers of English cookery, skirmishes with Mrs. Ormson, criticisms on Bessie, and the personal enjoyment of such luxuries as ripe fruit, coffee of her own manufacture, chocolate and claret...
Amidst the anxieties of making salads, the desire to convert Heather from the evils and dangers of English cookery, skirmishes with Mrs. Ormson, criticisms on Bessie, and the pe...
2. CHAPTER II.It was late on in the autumn by this time, and most of the visitors who had come down to the Hollow in the bright summer weather were now elsewhere.
3. CHAPTER III.It was late in the autumn, as I have said; the leaves were falling rapidly, and, but for the constant sweeping and supervision of “the boys,” the walks and lawns at Berrie Down...
4. CHAPTER IV.Time and tide, we are assured, wait for no man; which, though a truth, is but a portion of one, since happy would we be if, in this world, time and tide were the only things tha...
5. CHAPTER V.Peter Black, Esquire, of Stanley Crescent, sat in the Secretary’s room at the temporary offices of the Protector Bread and Flour Company, Limited, 220, Dowgate Hill, looking as...
6. CHAPTER VI.The accident at Berrie Down brought, during the course of the few weeks preceding Christmas, an unprecedented number of visitors to the Hollow. Never before in the memory of any...
7. CHAPTER VII.It was a lovely morning, and every one was going to walk over to Fifield church except Laura, who had almost tearfully entreated to be left in charge of Lally.
8. CHAPTER VIII.The woman who would rule her household well, had need to be endowed by Heaven with almost every virtue. She should be quick to perceive and slow to act; not given to rash judgme...
9. CHAPTER IX.Hitherto, Squire Dudley had, since his connection with Mr. Black, experienced no shortness of money. The man who spends two years’ income in one, does not, as a rule, find the p...
10. CHAPTER X.The secretaryship was duly accepted, although not by letter; Arthur Dudley thought it best to call upon Mr. Stewart, and express in person his willingness to fill up the post of...
11. CHAPTER XI.The programme of domestic arrangements which Arthur Dudley had so ingeniously sketched out, as he travelled from London to Palinsbridge, was, like many other programmes, destine...
12. CHAPTER XII.Time went by once more; not as it had done at Berrie Down, smoothly as a calm river gliding noiselessly to the sea, but swiftly and excitedly, splashing among the stones, dashin...