Category: Novels
There is the desolation of riches as well as the desolation of poverty--the empty splendour of a large house in which there is no going and coming of family life, no sound of light footsteps and youthful laughter--only spacious rooms and fine furniture, and one solitary figure...
There is the desolation of riches as well as the desolation of poverty--the empty splendour of a large house in which there is no going and coming of family life, no sound of li...
2. CHAPTER II."How blest he names, in love's familiar tone, The kind fair friend by nature marked his own; And, in the waveless mirror of his mind, Views the fleet years of pleasure left behi...
3. CHAPTER III."I see him furnished forth for his career, On starting from the life-chance in our world, With nearly all we count sufficient help: Body and mind in balance, a sound frame, A so...
4. CHAPTER IV."Knowledge is now no more a fountain sealed: Drink deep, until the habits of the slave, The sins of emptiness, gossip and spite And slander, die. Better not be at all Than not b...
5. CHAPTER V."For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love, And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang, To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm, And never shall it more be gracious.
6. CHAPTER VI.It was a week before John Faunce appeared upon the troubled scene of Grace Perivale's life. He had been in Vienna, and he called in Grosvenor Square at half-past nine o'clock on...
7. CHAPTER VII."There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest; And her noble heart's the noblest, yes, and her sure faith's the surest: And this woman says, 'My days were sunl...
8. CHAPTER VIII."All we that are called women, know as well As men, it were a far more noble thing To grace where we are graced, and give respect There, where we are respected: yet we practise...
9. CHAPTER IX.Faunce wrote to Lady Perivale on his arrival in town, and told her the result of his journey briefly, and without detail. She might make her mind easy. The woman who resembled h...
10. CHAPTER X.The business which would have taken him away from England for some time had hung fire, and his journey was postponed indefinitely. He did not tell her that his contemplated jour...
11. CHAPTER XI."And the Abbé uncrossed his legs, Took snuff, a reflective pinch. Broke silence: 'The question begs Much pondering ere I pronounce. Shall I flinch? The love which to one and one...
12. CHAPTER XII."In the mute August afternoon They trembled to some undertune Of music in the silver air; Great pleasure was it to be there Till green turned duskier and the moon Coloured the c...
13. CHAPTER XIII."They draw a nourishment Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces; And, when they see a virtue fortified Strongly above the battery of their tongues, Oh, how they cast to sink it!"
14. CHAPTER XIV.During the four months which had elapsed since Faunce's first visit to Kate Delmaine, alias Mrs. Randall, the detective had contrived to keep an observant eye upon the lady; but...
15. CHAPTER XV."Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and tho' he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with...
16. CHAPTER XVI."Later or sooner by a minute then, So much for the untimeliness of death,-- And as regards the manner that offends, That rude and rough, I count the same for gain-- Be the act h...
17. CHAPTER XVII."All of us sinful, all with need of grace, All chary of our life,--the minute more Or minute less of grace which saves a soul,-- Bound to make common cause with who craves time,...