Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Placid and happy, after its quiet fashion, was the Sabbath which followed. The scene of Joshua Haggard’s life was so rarely shifted, that he may be pardoned by the hearth goddess for feeling a certain satisfaction in finding himself away from home. The novelty of Sunday at Pen...
Placid and happy, after its quiet fashion, was the Sabbath which followed. The scene of Joshua Haggard’s life was so rarely shifted, that he may be pardoned by the hearth goddes...
2. CHAPTER II.A sleepless night shed the sober light of reason upon those clouds of sentiment which had obscured Miss Priscilla Webling’s mind. ‘When all is done,’ said Reason, ‘you know but...
3. CHAPTER III.September was nearly ended. Harvest homes were over, and in Combhaven there was a general impression that winter was a season in the immediate future, and that linsey and merino...
4. CHAPTER IV.Naomi awoke with a strange feeling of trouble on the morning after her father’s return with his young wife. She felt like one who, after some sudden bereavement, awakens to the...
5. CHAPTER V.The actual machinery of life, the common details of domestic existence, underwent little change after Joshua Haggard’s second marriage, and the introduction of a fair girl-wife...
6. CHAPTER VI.The year drew to its close, and society at Combhaven, which possessed something of that capacity for adapting itself to circumstances which is characteristic of society in wider...
7. CHAPTER VII.March had come; the anemones were white in the woods, the gummy chestnut-buds were bursting in sheltered corners of the land, there was a perfume of violets in the lanes, and pr...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Cynthia took her place at the Squire’s bedside, and assumed the care of the sick-room with as much calmness and self-possession as if she had been trained in a city hospital. Th...
9. CHAPTER IX.Oswald Pentreath, having set his father’s papers in order, and reduced the dusty chaos of the old Squire’s private study into form, found himself, comparatively speaking, a rich...
10. CHAPTER X.It was about a week after Mr. Pentreath had begun _Werther_, and he was now approaching the end of the story, when he came to the minister’s house at his usual hour, and found C...
11. CHAPTER XI.It was some time before Oswald saw his betrothed after that last reading of _Werther_; and the book remained a broken story for Naomi, who knew not the issue of Werther’s fatal...
12. CHAPTER XII.A cloud had fallen upon that quiet household at Combhaven. A sharper pain than Naomi’s sense of loss had crept into the breast of Naomi’s father, and gnawed it in secret, while...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Joshua proved a true prophet in so far as related to Oswald Pentreath’s line of conduct on receipt of his betrothed’s letter. To Naomi’s sad epistle, renouncing all claim upon h...
14. CHAPTER XIV.No life could have been more self-contained than Naomi’s in this fair summer time. She claimed sympathy from no one, but bore the anguish of her widowed heart in a resolute sile...