Category: Romance
|As the sweet, clear voices of the surpliced choristers rose in the closing verse of the hymn, and the vicar, in his white robe and violet hood, ascended the pulpit steps, old Gabriel Ware, sexton and doorkeeper of St. Cuthbert’s, limped across the pavement and slipped into th...
|As the sweet, clear voices of the surpliced choristers rose in the closing verse of the hymn, and the vicar, in his white robe and violet hood, ascended the pulpit steps, old G...
7. CHAPTER VII. CELESTIAL AFFINITIES.|Shortly afterwards Mrs. Haldane suggested that they should take a turn about the grounds, instead of wasting the sunshine indoors. As they left the chapel the vicar paused and...
2. CHAPTER II. AT THE VICARAGE.|When he reached the house he found that his presence was needed at the bedside of a labourer, who had met with a serious accident a day or two before, and who was now sinking r...
13. CHAPTER XIII. IN THE LABORATORY.|The grey dawn was glimmering through the chancel when Mr. Santley regained consciousness. He looked wonderingly about him, and at first was unable to understand how he came to...
10. CHAPTER X. THE KISS.|The artist in search of a pretty rural subject could not do better than paint a village holiday--a holiday from which the men and women are all but excluded, and the village sc...
4. CHAPTER IV. GEORGE HALDANE.|The low-lying landscape had vanished in the twilight, and the stars were twinkling in the clear blue sky before Edith rose, dried her eyes, and began to return homeward. The mo...
6. CHAPTER VI. THE UNKNOWN GOD.The sunlight streaming through the leaded diamond panes of the casements, instead of falling on the familiar pews, flagged nave, and solemn walls, shone with a startling effect...
8. CHAPTER VIII. A SICK-CALL.|Mr. Santley’s reply was as sincere at the moment it was spoken as it was impulsive. The saner and better part of him rose in sudden sympathy towards this young, confiding girl...
3. CHAPTER III. “THERE IS A CHANGE!|When Edith and Miss Santley reached the Vicarage, they went into the parlour, which, besides having a western exposure, commanded to a considerable distance a view of the high-...
9. CHAPTER IX. A SUMMER SHOWER.She found that she could be of use to a great number of poor people, and the occupation afforded her by her self-imposed duties was novel and interesting. It is pleasant to take...
5. CHAPTER V. THE LAMB AND THE SHEPHERD.|The vicar was standing close beside the village school, and as he turned to go back home he saw the schoolmistress in the doorway of her little cottage. He started as though sh...
12. CHAPTER XII. CONSCIENCE.|Mrs. Haldane came no more to the Vicarage that week, and on Sunday she did not remain, as she had hitherto done, for the communion at the close of the morning service. She was...
11. CHAPTER XI. EDITH.“The heat of passion! Was it only in the heat of passion that you---- Oh, go at once, Mr. Santley! Go before I say what had better be left unspoken!” The vicar paused and looked...