Category: Romance
THE steam of that stifling London day rose up in a choking, enervating haze from the hot grass. The shrill cries of children, loose from the Board School, cut the thick air. A train rushed across the bridge. Two or three cyclists tinkled their bells irritably as they spun down...
THE steam of that stifling London day rose up in a choking, enervating haze from the hot grass. The shrill cries of children, loose from the Board School, cut the thick air. A t...
2. CHAPTER I.THE story begins with the emotions of two women--the two women principally concerned--on a morning ten days after Jethro Jayne had imprudently indulged in sweet cider at the mar...
3. CHAPTER II.THE girl winced and hung back, as one does at physic or a possible blow. She looked along the narrow passage, as if for the support of another woman. But Gainah had hobbled away...
4. CHAPTER III.HER past was tightly packed away behind her--packed as remorselessly, as perfectly, as she had corded her boxes; with much effort and expenditure of strength, but with a perfect...
5. CHAPTER IV.WHEN the purchases from the Oriental department were finally arranged, Pamela retreated to the door of the keeping-room--the drawing-room as she had privately determined to call...
6. CHAPTER V.PAMELA saw the wagonette, too, as she perched on the chair, her head level with the high window. She was so surprised and fluttered that the Oriental bowl she was lifting down n...
7. CHAPTER VI.THE autumn rains set in early that year. Every night when Pamela fell asleep in her bedstead with the fluted posts and hangings of chintz, having a fearful pattern of black rose...
8. CHAPTER VII.PAMELA ran up to her room with the long, low lattice window and the somber furniture. She threw herself full length on the old sofa which she had rescued from one of the attics...
9. CHAPTER VIII.SHE was loitering in the drawing-room next morning when Jethro came in. There was a strong touch of out-door sweetness about him. He was not one of those men who smell of hot ro...
10. CHAPTER IX.AUNT SOPHY was giving her first garden party of the season--to her second-best set. That meant a family gathering, with the Jeremy Crisps left out. Maria Furlonger drew the line...
11. CHAPTER X.JETHRO was hoeing peas in the burning June sun. His white linen hat flapped over his calm, shrewd eyes. Pamela, loitering along the grass paths, marveled intolerantly at his cho...
12. CHAPTER XI.SHE waited until supper was over, and then she asked Jethro for half an hour alone in the little room looking due north, where he kept his papers, his boots, his agricultural ca...
13. CHAPTER XII.NEXT morning when she awoke workmen were hammering and whistling. When she looked out of her window she saw scaffolding. Long ladders were set up stealthily against the old red...
14. CHAPTER XIII.“MOTHER used to say that when a girl was married she should wear a bonnet and never jest with gentlemen. Mrs. Clutton’s hats are very large, and her manner to Jim has always bee...
15. CHAPTER XIV.WHEN Pamela walked out into the yard at Victoria, the stale stable smell, the heavy air, and coarse sounds instantly made her feel at home. The last time she had breathed London...
16. CHAPTER XV.IT was past eleven and they were languidly pecking at breakfast. The brick-red sun forced himself into the room, made the gorgeously upholstered settee and chairs look faded, sh...
17. CHAPTER XVI.AS days went on she became more than ever persuaded of the fatalism of those suggestive, common words, “Yer never knows nothin’, do yer?” That woman, with the soiled red lining...
18. CHAPTER XVII.SHE had never seen his face look quite so strange, not even on that mad day in the stuffy Bloomsbury house when she helped him throw his things into the bag and he whispered hoa...
19. CHAPTER XVIII.SHE opened the wide door into a hall which blazed with a yellow carpet and led the way into a room which was lighted with a shaded reading-lamp. The room instantly appealed to P...
20. CHAPTER XIX.THERE was no one she knew at the station; she had been nervously apprehensive that there would be. She had expected to create a small flutter among the railway people--measuring...
21. CHAPTER XX.AFTER dinner they went back to the drawing-room together. Nettie brought in coffee. She looked at Pamela curiously--with no very good feeling. Her sharp, impudent eyes dropped t...
22. CHAPTER XXI.She jumped briskly to the floor from the high, enshrouded bed. She realized, with a joyful thrill, that this was not London--not Beaufort Street. She must write to Barbara, who...
23. CHAPTER XXII.“THAT head-flannel may do for Annie; you know there is to be another little one about Lady Day. I must say that it is a pity when young wives have a family too fast.”
24. CHAPTER XXIII.HE stopped at the door and said he must drive over to the Flagon House before dusk. Pamela went alone into the drawing-room and sat by the fire. The luxury and completeness of t...