Category: Historical Novels
It was the height of the Bath season in 1779, and there was scarcely any part of the city which did not feel the effect of the great tide of amusement and pleasure, which set in year by year with ever-increasing force, and made the streets, and parades, and terraces alive with...
The moated Grange, near Louth, was no exception to the rule. The moat itself had been drained, and was now covered with turf, and studded with countless daisies, with their gold...
7. CHAPTER VII."I am glad to be allowed the chance of speaking to you, Miss Mainwaring," Leslie Travers began. "I wanted to tell you that I have found a clue to your poor little protegee of la...
9. CHAPTER IX.But few indeed were the high-born ladies a hundred and twenty years ago who ever penetrated the dark places where their suffering brothers and sisters lived and died in penury a...
4. CHAPTER IV.Griselda Mainwaring was up very much earlier than Lady Betty on all occasions, but on the morning after the ball in Wiltshire's Rooms she was dressed and in the sitting-room bef...
5. CHAPTER V."I will take your advice as far as in me lies, sir; but if he ever dares to speak again, as just now--in the presence of others, too!--to dare to speak lightly of her----I will...
11. CHAPTER XI.Griselda was glad to escape to her own room that she might have time to think over her position and decide what was best to do, and what was the next step to take.
1. CHAPTER I.It was the height of the Bath season in 1779, and there was scarcely any part of the city which did not feel the effect of the great tide of amusement and pleasure, which set in...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Giles had not known up to this moment whom he was addressing, for Griselda had only been in that house once, and she had drawn her hood over her face.
15. CHAPTER XV.Something in Leslie's manner struck the old servant. He preceded his young master to the parlour, threw on a log, and lighted two candles, which stood like tall sentinels on eit...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The money which Griselda had brought the day before had added some comfort to that bare room. A good fire was burning, and the bed on which the man lay was covered with blankets.
6. CHAPTER VI."The quality" of Bath and of other towns and cities in England, a hundred years ago, knew nothing--and, except in rare and isolated instances, cared less--of those who were redu...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Griselda returned to her room to watch the timepiece, and listen for the striking of the Abbey clock, as the slow hours passed, and she paced the floor in her restlessness from...
12. CHAPTER XII."Graves, why _are_ you so gloomy--like the day? Oh!" she said, turning to the window, which was blurred with a driving mist of rain--"oh! there ought to be sunshine everywhere t...
2. CHAPTER II.Wiltshire's Rooms were illuminated by many wax-candles, shedding a softened and subdued light over the gay crowd which assembled there on this December night. Lady Betty was soo...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Meanwhile the lonely woman, shrouded in her long cloak, pursued her way. She missed it again and again, and was forced to inquire if she was right, first of a countryman she met...
8. CHAPTER VIII."They are vastly pretty, and full of feeling!" exclaimed Lady Betty the next morning. "I declare, Griselda, you are without an atom of sentiment; you sat listening to them with...
10. CHAPTER X."Where have you been?" she said anxiously. "Dinner is not only served, but just finished. There have been tantrums about it, I can tell you. You may prepare for a fuss. Her lady...
3. CHAPTER III.There was not a cloud in the sky on that December night, and the "host of heaven" shone with extra-ordinary brilliancy. The moon, at her full, was shedding her pure silvery ligh...
14. CHAPTER XIV.So he dressed, and went to the Assembly Room, arriving just as Lady Betty stepped out of her chair, in a new primrose-coloured sacque and sea-green brocade petticoat. Her hair w...