Category: Romance
In Rome, on a bright sunny morning in the month of March, 186-, two ladies were seated in a drawing-room, the windows of which looked upon the Corso. Mother and daughter they evidently were; and, as they play a prominent part in this story, we may be permitted to devote a shor...
We must now turn our attention to some of our other friends of the croquet party, and especially to one about whom, as we have already seen, Flora Adair's thoughts were not a li...
1. CHAPTER I.In Rome, on a bright sunny morning in the month of March, 186-, two ladies were seated in a drawing-room, the windows of which looked upon the Corso. Mother and daughter they ev...
4. CHAPTER IV.As soon as luncheon was over Helena went to dress, and Mrs. Elton and Mary returned to the drawing-room; the latter seated herself in the window, and gazed out abstractedly, unt...
5. CHAPTER V.Flora's mind was filled with interest in the young lady of whom Madame Hird had spoken. On the morning after their visit to the Villa Ianthe she read all the papers which Madame...
2. CHAPTER II.Easter Tuesday had arrived, and all the excitement of Easter in Rome was over. Our friends had joined in the grand ceremonies of Holy Week; they had heard the silver trumpets so...
15. CHAPTER XV.To the Piazza San Marco, in all its beauty and grandeur,--the richest jewel of the Adriatic's bride,--we must now turn. It is about nine at night; and beneath the long lines of...
11. CHAPTER XI.Loitering amidst the artistic haunts of _Firenze la bella_, we seem to have forgotten some of our Roman acquaintances, who, when leaving the Eternal City, took the southern inst...
13. CHAPTER XIII.We left Mr. Earnscliffe alone in the drawing-room waiting for the return of the ladies, and during their absence that unfinished sentence of Helena's--"Flora would not--" occupi...
16. CHAPTER XVI.What a delightful yet wakeful night did Flora spend in thinking over the events of the evening!... When Mr. Earnscliffe's voice fell upon her ear she was musing sadly on the wea...
7. CHAPTER VII.On Friday morning--the morning of the Eltons' _soirée_--Marie Arbi, who had been with the Adairs since the Monday before, was in a state of great excitement, mingled with no lit...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Adairs were doubly anxious to know Marie and to have her with them, after reading the papers which Madame Hird had given them; moreover, she would, they thought, so well sup...
10. CHAPTER X.At breakfast on Tuesday morning the plans for the day were talked over. Mr. Blake began by saying, "I suppose you know, ladies, that I am engaged to go with Mr. Barkley to the A...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The Eltons' ball, that ball to which our friends Flora Adair, Marie Arbi, and the two Elton girls had looked forward with so much eagerness, was over. Had it brought them pleasu...
12. CHAPTER XII.The next morning found Mr. Earnscliffe still wondering how it was that Mr. Lyne came to be in Naples, and what had become of Flora Adair. Was it possible that she had refused Mr...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The stars were crowding fast into the clear sky, and the moon was shedding forth her pale rays, when Mr. Earnscliffe reached the boat. Such a scene must be witnessed to be under...
9. CHAPTER IX.On the morning after their arrival our travellers--the younger ones especially--were all impatience to see something of the fair city of Florence, so famed, moreover, for the be...