Category: Novels
The short note which your father has, before this, delivered to you, and which I trust you have destroyed, my dear Lucy, as a proof unworthy to be preserved of your poor Rachel’s little advancement in self-knowledge, shall, if it be possible, be rendered useful to me as a warn...
_Unbending dignity_, Lucy, has been a match for sullenness. I have conquered; and Miss Flint has broken silence, and held out the olive branch. But hold, it was not that unbendi...
7. LETTER VII.Obedience in most cases is the best test of love; and as you _command_ me, my Lucy, to continue faithfully to detail all the _minutiæ_ of my domestic comforts, till you are cert...
5. LETTER V.Without entering into your comments on the power of bribery when in such hands as mine, I will content myself with my influence over an affection which can be just to friendship...
10. LETTER IX.It was not to the fault of the weather, my dear Lucy, that Miss Flint could attribute her return home with a head-ach; nor do I attribute my fatigue to the morning airing; but I...
13. LETTER XII.You will, my dear Lucy, when you have read this letter, commend me for my caution. “I am well, and all here are well, thank God for it!” Do not however fancy that I have not had...
8. LETTER VIII.We found the party in the hay-field augmented by all farmer Wilson’s family, namely, his wife, with a Mrs. and Miss Heartley, their boarders and lodgers, to whom Malcolm introdu...
6. LETTER VI.Since my last, I have had some conversation with Mr. Malcolm Maclairn, which, as it interested me, will make the subject of my present lucubrations. He returned home last night...
12. LETTER XI.I send you, my dear Lucy, with my thanks to Counsellor Steadman for his letter, one which I have received from Mr. Flamall. You will find that I have an enormous account to sett...
4. LETTER IV.Your dear letter, in which I find you _can be reasonable_ and good, was delivered to me yesterday, by a gentleman who lives in this neighbourhood; the Mr. Woodley, our Counsello...
3. LETTER III.Your father’s wisdom in hurrying you away to Barton-lodge, instead of permitting you to remain at Heathcot, like another Niobe, dissolving in tears, is so like him, that it neit...
2. LETTER II.Finding myself somewhat the wiser for a few hours repose, I will profit by the unavoidable delay of my yesterday’s letter to add to its bulk, and to pour into your patient ear a...
1. LETTER I.The short note which your father has, before this, delivered to you, and which I trust you have destroyed, my dear Lucy, as a proof unworthy to be preserved of your poor Rachel’...
9. LETTER IX.Your letter of Thursday, my dear Lucy, is in my hands twenty-four hours sooner than I expected it; but good news cannot travel too fast, and I sit down as blithe as a bird to th...