Category: Novels

Lady Car: The Sequel of a Life

Lady Caroline Beaufort was supposed to be, as life goes, an unusually fortunate woman. It is true that things had not always gone well with her. In her youth she had been married almost by force--as near it as anything ever is in an age when parental tyranny is of course an an...

Chapters

8. CHAPTER VIII

Lady Car did many things after this period which she had previously disliked to do; but there was one thing which she did not for a long time consent to, and that was to open th...

15. CHAPTER XIV

Lady Car had done too much, the doctor said. The last dinner had been given; the last guest had departed, and life at the Towers was about to begin under its new aspect--a chang...

2. CHAPTER II

The boat lay faintly rocking upon the little wavelets from which the ruddy reflection of the sunset was just fading. The beautiful outline of the mountains on the Savoy side sto...

12. CHAPTER XI

Next day the brother and sister went out riding by themselves. The game had been but poorly preserved during Lady Car’s sway, and had not been of great importance at any time, s...

16. CHAPTER XV

She never knew how she was taken home. A horrible dream of half-conscious misery, of dreadful movement when all she wanted was to lie down and be still, of a confusion of sights...

4. CHAPTER IV

The house was found after a great many not unpleasurable researches--little expeditions, now and then, which Lady Caroline and her husband took together, with reminiscences of t...

3. CHAPTER III

They all came home, as people say--though it was no home to which they were coming, and they had been very much at home in their Swiss villa, notwithstanding the portraits of th...

5. CHAPTER V

After a great deal of travelling in the most beautiful scenery in the world, and after the excitement of settling down, of furnishing, of arranging, of putting all your future l...

13. CHAPTER XII

Janet went upon no more expeditions with Tom. His lie struck her like a shot, going through all her defences. She had almost lied for him, according to Charlie Blackmore’s instr...

14. CHAPTER XIII

It was some years before the Towers was visited again. Tom went to Oxford and had a not very fortunate career there, which gave his mother a certain justification in resisting a...

6. CHAPTER VI

The time of Tom’s holidays was rather a holiday also for Beaufort, who, having got a certain amount of amusement out of the notebooks and their record of school-life, was beginn...

9. CHAPTER IX

Beaufort behaved very well at this crisis of domestic history. He shook off his usual languor and became at once energetic and active. What he said to Tom remains undisclosed, b...

7. CHAPTER VII

The flag, so casually suggested, became in effect a very favourite toy, both with Beaufort and his stepson. The one was a very ordinary little boy, the other a highly cultivated...

10. CHAPTER X

First of all there was her nearest neighbour, her dearest friend, her only sister Edith; the dearest companion of her life, who had stood by her in all her troubles, and to whom...

17. CHAPTER XVI

There could be no doubt that Beaufort behaved throughout this business in the most admirable way. He made the very best of it to Lady Car, who lay and listened to his voice as t...

1. CHAPTER I

Lady Caroline Beaufort was supposed to be, as life goes, an unusually fortunate woman. It is true that things had not always gone well with her. In her youth she had been marrie...

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‘But you must have some one to keep house. Mother said so! She is not going to have me at Easton--that I am sure of; and if I am not to keep house for you, Tom, what shall I do?...