Category: Novels
Tom Carlingford was sitting at his piano, in his rooms at King’s College, Cambridge, playing the overture to _Lohengrin_ with the most indifferent success. It was a hot night in the middle of August, and he was dressed suitably, if not elegantly, in a canvas shirt, a pair of f...
Maud spent a month with Lady Ramsden--four epoch-making weeks. The note of change which had been struck in her when she met Violet had expanded into a harmonious chord. Just as...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Manvers’ good intention of taking a holiday had presumably gone to pave the worst of roads, for before a fortnight was up he was working hard at the new statuette. The solid ing...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Tom went back to London about a fortnight after the baby’s birth, and plunged into his work with more vigour and earnestness than ever. His new interest in religious matters was...
10. CHAPTER X.Tom stayed at Cambridge two days, having meant to stay a week, but he found the need of getting home again imperative. He longed to tell Ted all about it, but something prevente...
11. CHAPTER XI.Parliament met early that year, and when Tom and May migrated to London the two Houses were already sitting. London was consequently fairly full, and the Wrexhams, among others,...
17. CHAPTER XVII.It must be acknowledged that Tom’s heart had sunk a little when he saw the flat in Bloomsbury. The thought of May, with her queenly Madonna-like beauty, moving through the low r...
7. CHAPTER VII.Meanwhile the “sheltered life” had gone on as usual at Mr. Markham’s. The delight in Ted’s success had moved away into its appointed background, in front of which the slow, happ...
1. CHAPTER I.Tom Carlingford was sitting at his piano, in his rooms at King’s College, Cambridge, playing the overture to _Lohengrin_ with the most indifferent success. It was a hot night in...
6. CHAPTER VI.Tom had spent the latter part of the summer and the earlier autumn at a sculptor’s studio in Paris, and arrived at Athens in a decade of summer November days. The fogs and frost...
12. CHAPTER XII.Easter was late, and when Tom and May left London to spend a week or two with old Mr. Carlingford at Applethorpe, spring had already burst out into freshest and greenest leaf. A...
5. CHAPTER V.Maud Wrexham was sitting in her mother’s room one morning, towards the end of July, after breakfast, telling Lady Chatham her engagements for the day. This piece of ritual was d...
9. CHAPTER IX.The weather signalized Tom’s return to England by a blizzard from the north, which for twenty-four hours spread sheet after sheet of snow on the ground, till one would have thou...
4. CHAPTER IV.Tom went back to Cambridge for his third year with his mind fully made up as regard his career. He was alone with his father his last night at home, and they had talked the matt...
2. CHAPTER II.Tom came back from his museum about twelve, in an unusually sombre mood: the Discobolus apparently had not proved inspiring; and he took his books to Markham’s rooms, tumbled th...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Tom, as he had mentioned on the previous evening, had come to a difficult place in his statue, and he could not get on. He was puzzled to know what the fault was, or where the d...
3. CHAPTER III.Mr. Carlingford lived in an ugly but comfortable house among the broad-backed Surrey Downs, generally alone, for a life of sixty-eight years had convinced him that he found his...
15. CHAPTER XV.It is probably true that when things are at their worst they begin to mend, but the little complications common to man sometimes exhibit a ghastly ingenuity of contrivance befor...
16. CHAPTER XVI.May was driving home one afternoon towards the end of June with a sense of great well-being. The baby was thriving as heartily as the fondest mother could wish, and Tom was as l...