Category: Novels
One morning, early in the month of August, a few years since, the sun rose lazily and luxuriously over the hills that bounded the little village of Aston, which lay in one of the prettiest valleys of Gloucestershire. The golden beams of that glorious luminary falling first upo...
"If you please miss," said Betsy, entering Amy's room, where Mabel was sitting, "will you go to Miss Lucy's room for she is crying and sobbing like any thing, and she has got th...
18. CHAPTER XVII.But when I see the fair wide brow Half shaded by the silken hair, That never looked so fair as now When life and health were laughing there, I wonder not that grief should swell...
1. CHAPTER I.One morning, early in the month of August, a few years since, the sun rose lazily and luxuriously over the hills that bounded the little village of Aston, which lay in one of th...
6. CHAPTER VI."I am only waiting to undress you, mamma," said Mabel, "you are so much later to-night, that I thought you would be tired. I have been lying on your sofa, half asleep, for more...
4. CHAPTER IV.Mrs. Lesly had been, as a girl, both beautiful and accomplished, gifted with good natural talents, though possessing little perseverance and much indolence of character. Upon he...
8. CHAPTER VIII.A parent's heart may prove a snare; The child she loves so well, Her hand may lead, with gentlest care, Down the smooth road to hell. Nourish its flame, destroy its mind, Thus d...
13. CHAPTER XII.In the service of mankind to be A guardian god below; still to employ The mind's brave ardour in heroic arms, Such as may raise us o'er the grovelling herd And make us shine for...
15. CHAPTER XIV.He shall again be seen when evening comes, And social parties crowd their favorite rooms, Where on the table pipes and papers lie, The steaming bowl and foaming tankard by.
10. CHAPTER X.Could the selfish but remember how much less they would feel their own sorrows by sharing those of others, they would learn an easy way to alleviate the unhappiness they are con...
5. CHAPTER V.Whence then that peace So dovelike? settling o'er a soul that loved Earth and its treasures? Whence that angel smile With which the allurements of a world so dear Were counted a...
17. CHAPTER XVI.The terrified women had scarcely told their tale, before all the men in the "Hargrave Arms" were on their feet, starting into the open air. They soon perceived cause for alarm....
2. CHAPTER II.From dream to dream, with her to rove, Like faery nurse, with hermit child, Teach her to think, to pray, to love, Make grief less bitter, joy less wild. These were thy tasks,--.
7. CHAPTER VII.Mrs. Lesly's ill health had made her rather retire from society, than take any pains to seek it, during her widowhood, and she had gradually drawn her circle of friends so close...
3. CHAPTER III.What general interest is excited by the arrival of the post. Who ever settled himself in a new place, for the shortest time, without making himself acquainted with its details,...
16. CHAPTER XV.She came with smiles the hour of pain to cheer; Apart she sighed; alone she shed the tear. Then, as if breaking from a cloud, she gave Fresh light, and gilt the prospect of the...
9. CHAPTER IX.Mr. Ware and his nephew did not neglect to take advantage of Mabel's proposal, that they would mutually help to pass the few weeks that remained of the warm weather, more pleasa...
11. CHAPTER XI.Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, By that sweet ornament which truth doth give. The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
12. scene I shall always recall. Yet, I must hear your forgiveness, and oh!"I should not do you justice, Captain Clair," replied Mabel, trying to speak steadily, "if I did not pity the pain you must feel in having been the most unwilling cause of such...