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As soon as Martha had gone, Ellen began to make such preparations as she thought necessary for the night. She placed the furniture of the room in order. She brought in some wood from the back room and laid it down very gently by the side of the fire, so as to have a sufficient...
As soon as Martha had gone, Ellen began to make such preparations as she thought necessary for the night. She placed the furniture of the room in order. She brought in some wood...
15. CHAPTER IX.Violante's first evening at the Lansmeres, had seemed happier to her than the first evening, under the same roof, had done to Helen. True that she missed her father much--Jemima...
5. CHAPTER IV.--TELESCOPIC PHILANTHROPY.We were to pass the night, Mr. Kenge told us when we arrived in his room, at Mrs. Jellyby's; and then he turned to me, and said he took it for granted I knew who Mrs. Jellyby was?
4. CHAPTER III.--A PROGRESS.I have a great deal of difficulty in beginning to write my portion of these pages, for I know I am not clever. I always knew that. I can remember, when I was a very little girl...
8. CHAPTER II."He has had the assurance to lay wagers that he will win the hand of your heiress. I know that too; and therefore I have come to England--first to baffle his design--for I do no...
9. CHAPTER III.The next day a somewhat old-fashioned, but exceedingly patrician equipage stopped at Riccabocca's garden-gate. Giacomo, who, from a bedroom window, had caught sight of it windin...
3. CHAPTER II.--IN FASHION.It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion that we want on this same miry afternoon. It is not so unlike the Court of Chancery, but that we may pass from the one scene to the o...
2. CHAPTER I.--IN CHANCERY.London. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the water had but newl...
14. CHAPTER VIII.If any one could be more surprised at seeing Lord L'Estrange at the house of Madame di Negra that evening than the fair hostess herself, it was Randal Leslie. Something instinct...
11. CHAPTER V.No sooner had Lady Lansmere found herself alone with Riccabocca and Harley than she laid her hand on the exile's arm, and, addressing him by a title she had not before given him...
7. BOOK X.--INITIAL CHAPTER.It is observed by a very pleasant writer--read nowadays only by the brave, pertinacious few who still struggle hard to rescue from the House of Pluto the souls of departed autho...
10. CHAPTER IV.Mrs. Fairfield was a proud woman when she received Mrs. Riccabocca and Violante in her grand house; for a grand house to her was that cottage to which her boy Lenny had brought...
13. CHAPTER VII."Excuse me, my dear Harley, I have only ten minutes to give you. I expect one of the royal dukes, and punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courte...
12. CHAPTER VI.Violante and Jemima were both greatly surprised, as the reader may suppose, when they heard, on their return, the arrangements already made for the former. The Countess insisted...
6. CHAPTER XVII.--CONTINUED."Your flatterers will tell you, Signorina, that you are much improved since then, but I liked you better as you were; not but what I hope to return some day what you then so gen...