Harper's New Monthly Magazine
In my next chapter I shall present Squire Hazeldean in patriarchal state--not exactly under the fig tree he has planted, but before the stocks he has reconstructed. Squire Hazeldean and his family on the village green! The canvas is all ready for the colors.
La Rochelle is a quiet little town at the bottom of a small bay, the mouth of which is almost closed up by two islands. There is a sleepy, peaceful air about the place--a sort o...
4. CHAPTER XIII."DEAR SIR--To a feeling heart it must always be painful to give pain to another, and (though I am sure unconsciously) you have given the _greatest_ pain to poor Mr. Hazeldean an...
3. CHAPTER XII.The card-table was set out in the drawing-room at Hazeldean Hall; though the little party were still lingering in the deep recess of the large bay window--which (in itself of di...
2. CHAPTER XI.The Squire's carpenters were taken from the park pales, and set to work at the parish stocks. Then came the painter and colored them, a beautiful dark blue, with a white border-...
1. CHAPTER X.In my next chapter I shall present Squire Hazeldean in patriarchal state--not exactly under the fig tree he has planted, but before the stocks he has reconstructed. Squire Hazel...
5. CHAPTER XVI.In obedience to an order which arrived at Saumur one morning in the July of 1798, I was summoned before the commandant of the school, when the following brief colloquy ensued: