Category: Novels
Edward Arundel went back to his lonely home with a settled purpose in his mind. He would leave Lincolnshire,--and immediately. He had no motive for remaining. It may be, indeed, that he had a strong motive for going away from the neighbourhood of Lawford Grange. There was a lu...
Edward Arundel went back to his lonely home with a settled purpose in his mind. He would leave Lincolnshire,--and immediately. He had no motive for remaining. It may be, indeed,...
3. CHAPTER II.Edward Arundel kept his word. He waited for a week and upwards, but Paul Marchmont made no sign; and after having given him three days' grace over and above the promised time, t...
4. CHAPTER III.All the county, or at least all that part of the county within a certain radius of Marchmont Towers, waited very anxiously for Mr. Paul Marchmont to make some move. The horsewhi...
5. CHAPTER IV.Major Lawford and his blue-eyed daughters were not amongst those guests who accepted Paul Marchmont's princely hospitalities. Belinda Lawford had never heard the story of Edward...
6. CHAPTER V.The March winds were blowing amongst the oaks in Dangerfield Park, when Edward Arundel went back to the house which had never been his home since his boyhood. He went back becau...
7. CHAPTER VI.For some time after his return Edward Arundel was very restless and gloomy: roaming about the country by himself, under the influence of a pretended passion for pedestrianism; r...
8. CHAPTER VII.The young widower made no further lamentation, but did his duty to his betrothed bride with a cheerful visage. Ah! what a pleasant journey it was to Belinda, that progress throu...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Upon the 31st of June, the eve of Edward Arundel's wedding-day, Olivia Marchmont sat in her own room,--the room that she had chiefly occupied ever since her husband's death,--th...
10. CHAPTER IX.Paul Marchmont was still strolling hither and thither about the room, admiring his pictures, and smiling to himself at the recollection of the easy manner in which he had obtain...
11. CHAPTER X.It was past two o'clock in the morning of the day which had been appointed for Edward Arundel's wedding, when Paul Marchmont drew rein before the white gate that divided Major L...
12. CHAPTER XI.The sun shone upon Belinda Lawford's wedding-day. The birds were singing in the garden under her window as she opened her lattice and looked out. The word lattice is not a poeti...
13. CHAPTER XII.One of the minor effects of any great shock, any revolution, natural or political, social or domestic, is a singular unconsciousness, or an exaggerated estimate, of the passage...
14. CHAPTER XIII.Paul Marchmont did not leave Stony-Stringford Farmhouse till dusk upon that bright summer's day; and the friendly twilight is slow to come in the early days of July, however a m...
15. CHAPTER XIV.The brother and sister exchanged very few words during the drive between Stony Stringford and Marchmont Towers. It was arranged between them that Mrs. Weston should drive by a b...