English fiction -- 19th century
Spring was over all the land, and the April sunshine was beaming mildly on the tender green leaves and half-blown flowers in the convent garden of Ansprach. On the broad open terrace, strewn with the golden petals of the fragile and short-lived laburnum, and scented with the d...
Spring was over all the land, and the April sunshine was beaming mildly on the tender green leaves and half-blown flowers in the convent garden of Ansprach. On the broad open te...
3. CHAPTER II.‘What a power there is in innocence! whose very helplessness is its safeguard: in whose presence even Passion himself stands abashed, and turns worshipper at the very altar he c...
4. CHAPTER III.It was now several years since Mrs Barrington had had either the means or the disposition to keep up a house of her own, and so she lived in furnished rooms in South Audley Stre...
5. CHAPTER IV.‘I would cut off my own head if it had nothing in it than wit; and tear out my own heart if it had no better disposition than to love only myself.’--_Pope_.
6. CHAPTER V.Fenella did not see her mother on the following morning until she descended to the breakfast-room, but their meeting then seemed to atone for everything that had gone before. Mr...
7. CHAPTER VI.Eliza Bennett’s errand occupied more time than she had calculated upon, and she returned home but a few minutes before her mistress. She was still in her room, taking off her wa...
8. CHAPTER VII.‘The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride; And, in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires a pace to see how fair...
9. CHAPTER VIII.‘As I trembled, look’d, and sigh’d, His eyes met mine--he fix’d their glories on me; Confusion thrill’d me then, and secret joy, Fast throbbing, stole its treasures from my hear...
10. CHAPTER IX.Fenella reached the cottage with her head filled with the unexpected encounter that had taken place, and ready to rush into Bennett’s presence and tell her all about it, but Mar...
11. CHAPTER X.Geoffrey Doyne’s father was a country gentleman, and a justice of the peace for Buckinghamshire. He was a selfish old person, who seldom consulted anything but his own inclinati...
12. CHAPTER XI.Yet although these young people had arrived at such a satisfactory conclusion with regard to the attitude they were to maintain towards each other through life, they did not see...