Category: Novels
They had dined, and the letter was written. A week-old moon shone in the placid heaven; the tender night-stillness had descended upon the always quiet town; lights twinkled gaily from the casements of surrounding villas; like a string of jewels gleamed the lamps of the empty H...
They had dined, and the letter was written. A week-old moon shone in the placid heaven; the tender night-stillness had descended upon the always quiet town; lights twinkled gail...
2. CHAPTER XV.Lucius had a long interview with Mrs. Bertram on the following morning, and he and Geoffrey left Stillmington together in the afternoon; to the despair of the proprietor of the...
3. CHAPTER XVI.The thought of this conversation with Mr. Sivewright followed Lucius all through the day’s work. He meditated upon it in the intervals of his toil, and that meditation only tend...
4. CHAPTER I.Not very far did Geoffrey Hossack proceed upon his Norwegian voyage. At Hull he discovered that—perusing his Bradshaw with a too rapid eye, and a somewhat disordered mind—he had...
5. CHAPTER II.It was hardly one o’clock when they beheld the terraced gardens of Mardenholme; gardens that were worth a day’s journey to see; a thoroughly Italian picture, set in a thoroughly...
6. CHAPTER III.The luncheon party was gay enough, in spite of Mr. and Mrs. Wimple’s infatuation for each other, which rendered them, as it were, non-existing for the rest of the party. They ga...
7. CHAPTER IV.It was nearly six o’clock when Geoffrey and his cousins left Mardenholme. On descending from Lady Baker’s apartments in quest of Belle and Jessie, Mr. Hossack had found those tw...
8. CHAPTER I.That calm delight which Lucius Davoren had hitherto felt in the society of his betrothed, and his happy expectation of a prosperous future to be shared with her, were now cloude...
9. CHAPTER II.When Lucius made his early visit—now always the first duty of every day—to Cedar House on the following morning, he found that Lucille had already acted upon his advice. The dre...
10. CHAPTER III.It was nearly dusk that evening when Lucius returned to Cedar House. His daily round had occupied more time than usual, and however full his mind might be of that strange old ma...
11. CHAPTER IV.The sky was starless above the Shadrack-road, and the air hardly less oppressive than it had been in the sultry noontide. That low sky seemed to shut in the Shadrack district li...
12. CHAPTER V.At nine o’clock Lucius stood before the tall iron gate waiting for admittance to Mr. Sivewright’s dwelling. In spite of his weariness, he had slept but little in the interval. T...
13. CHAPTER VI.The sight of the girl he fondly loved lying senseless at his feet, with a white face and closed eyelids, filled Lucius Davoren with unspeakable agony and remorse. How little had...
14. CHAPTER VII.Lucius had a keen desire to explore those premises at the back of Cedar House, with a vague notion that his examination of them might throw some light upon the mystery which now...
15. CHAPTER VIII.From Cedar House Lucius went straight to Mr. Otranto’s office. It was still early, not yet noon, and he would have time for his daily round after he had settled this business, w...
16. CHAPTER IX.Lucius paused in the gray old hall, where twilight came sooner than in any other part of the house. He longed to see Lucille, to clasp the dear hand, to hear the low gentle voic...
17. CHAPTER X.It was now nearly dark, and Lucius was anxious to obtain a speedy release from the sick room, lest the time should creep on towards the hour at which Mr. Otranto’s minions were...
18. CHAPTER XI.Geoffrey Hossack rushed down to Stillmington as fast as a recklessly-driven hansom and an express train could take him. His heart seemed to sing aloud as he went, ‘I am coming,...
19. CHAPTER XII.There was plenty of work for Lucius in his surgery when he went home, after inducting Mr. Otranto’s men in their duties at Cedar House. There were the medicines to be made up, a...