Category: Novels
Lady Kilpatrick
On a summer evening, twenty years ago, a girl and a youth were strolling slowly along the strip of yellow sands which leads from the verge of the Atlantic to the steep line of rock dominated by Kilpatrick Castle.
Chapters
15. CHAPTER XV.--THE MOVING BOG.
In a state of mind bordering as closely on frenzy as was possible in so very cold and calculating a nature, Conseltine made his way to the neighbouring village of Cor-dale, wher...
2. CHAPTER II.--LORD KILPATRICK.Four of our leading characters, including our best apology for a hero, have introduced themselves. All that remains to be explained, at least for the present, is that Dulcie Bro...
11. CHAPTER XI.--MOTHER AND SON.Peebles, though weary with his unwonted vigil in the early morning and the anxiety of the day, made good speed to Doolan’s farm, urged as he was by those most powerful of stimul...
1. CHAPTER I.--INTRODUCES DESMOND AND DULCIE.On a summer evening, twenty years ago, a girl and a youth were strolling slowly along the strip of yellow sands which leads from the verge of the Atlantic to the steep line of r...
9. CHAPTER IX.--IN WHICH MISCHIEF IS BREWING.It was late in the forenoon of the same day when Mr. Blake rose from his bed in the tenement to which he gave the sonorous and impressive title of Blake’s Hall--a tumbledown hut...
3. CHAPTER III.--MR. PEEBLES RECEIVES A MESSAGE.‘On the sands,’ said Dulcie. ‘You’re not angry with me, are you?’ she asked, kissing him in a coaxing fashion, for the tone in which he had spoken was a little sharp. ‘I was so...
5. CHAPTER V.--LADY DULCIE OFFERS CONSOLATION.‘Mr. Desmond has left the Castle,’ said Lady Dulcie. ‘He has had a misunderstanding with his lordship. Follow him, and tell him not to leave the village till he sees me. Quick!’
4. CHAPTER IV.--A SURPRISE FOR DESMOND.Mr. Richard Conseltine, junior, was not a young man of brilliant parts, but, like most intellectually slow people, he made up for the paucity of his ideas by the intensity with...
6. CHAPTER VI.--THE MEETING IN THE GRAVEYARD.That same night a cold round moon was shining on the old graveyard where the people of Kilpatrick had for many generations buried their dead--a place of green and grassy graves,...
12. CHAPTER XII.--MR. PEEBLES PREPARES FOR WAR.For a long, sacred space the mother and son thus strangely reunited knelt together, their arms about each other, their hearts full of a whirl of many mingled emotions which made...
7. CHAPTER VII.--BLAKE, OF BLAKE’S HALL.Lady Dulcie, wending her way back from the shebeen to the Castle under the escort of Rosie and the faithful Larry, dried her tears resolutely, and did her best--no hard task at...
14. CHAPTER XIV.--LADY KILPATRICK.Peebles had left the Conseltines barely half an hour when a message was brought to him in his pantry that Mr. Blake of Blake’s Hall would be glad to have the pleasure of a word...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--MOYA MACARTNEY.Peebles, returning home to the Castle after his midnight interview with Moya Macartney in the churchyard, passed a sleepless and troubled night, revolving in his mind all the ev...
13. CHAPTER XIII.--FATHER AND SON.During breakfast next morning at the Castle the two Conseltines, father and son, who were usually punctual in their appearance at meal hours, descended late. They were pale and...
16. CHAPTER XVI.--IN WHICH LORD KILPATRICK NAMES HIS HEIR.It was not till Blake was half-way on the road to Maguire’s cottage that the personal significance to himself of the errand with which Peebles had entrusted him dawned upon him....
10. CHAPTER X.--ANOTHER INTERVIEW.The shades of evening were beginning to envelop the landscape as Peebles made his slow and toilsome way towards Blake’s Hall. The old man had been in a ferment of excitement all...