Category: Historical Novels
For not to think of what I need's must feel, But to be still and patient all I can, And haply, by abstruse research, to steal From my own nature all the natural man: This was my sole resource, my only plan.
The gnawing envy, the heart-fretting fear, The vain surmises, the distrustful shews, The false reports that flying tales do bear, She doubts, the dangers, the delays, the woes,...
14. CHAPTER XIV.And though our joy is all too new to wear The golden sweetness of assured repose, Since the good Gods have steered our bark of life Through the rough storm and the deceitful cal...
3. CHAPTER III.Mr. Singleton breakfasted at nine o'clock; and it was the custom of the house for everybody to appear at that meal. At half past eight, the worthy squire read prayers in the cha...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Margaret had promised to breakfast with Harriet every day in the Oratory. When she went in the next morning, the room was vacant; the table spread, the urn steaming, the tea mad...
5. CHAPTER V.But nature never framed a woman's heart Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice; Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, Misprising what they look on; and her wit Values it...
12. CHAPTER XII."Mrs. Fitzpatrick is not in the room, _ma mie_," said Harriet, taking a chair just opposite to Margaret. "I certainly never knew such a heroine as you are. Going down to dinner...
10. CHAPTER X.Time sped on at the Cottage as smoothly as it had done before Margaret left it. The spring came sooner than she could have believed; the beautiful early summer followed. She was...
11. CHAPTER XI._Theo._ To this man, my fortune, My more than purblind fortune, gave my faith, Drawn to it by as many shows of service And signs of truth, as ever false tongue uttered: Heaven p...
7. CHAPTER VII.After a pause she said: "Did he seem--" then, suddenly interrupting herself, she exclaimed, "Pshaw! I will not stoop to enquire what he seemed. Perhaps," she added, after anothe...
1. CHAPTER I.For not to think of what I need's must feel, But to be still and patient all I can, And haply, by abstruse research, to steal From my own nature all the natural man: This was my...
6. CHAPTER VI.The next morning Harriet was in a high fever. Mr. Singleton said she had nobody to thank for it but herself. She had no business at a ball when she was suffering from a severe c...
9. CHAPTER IX."You are not going away on Saturday," said Harriet the next morning to Margaret, who was sitting with a letter in her hand, "do not think it. I have made up my mind that you spe...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Margaret had often a hard matter to preserve her gravity, but now she was vexed with Harriet, who had employed herself ever since she came down stairs in petting Mr. Humphries,...
4. CHAPTER IV.Margaret was hardly awake the next morning, before she received a message from Harriet requesting to see her as soon as she was dressed, and having hastened this ceremony, she f...