Category: Romance
The next day Lord Tony’s only sister, Lady Rachel Jenkins, arrived to call--but not for the first time--upon Miss West. She was an extremely vivacious and agreeable little woman, with dark eyes and flashing teeth. She took Madeline out with her in her own brougham, and--oh, gr...
The next day Lord Tony’s only sister, Lady Rachel Jenkins, arrived to call--but not for the first time--upon Miss West. She was an extremely vivacious and agreeable little woman...
2. CHAPTER XV.Lady Rachel and Madame Coralie, between them, soon metamorphosed the appearance of Miss West. She took to her elegant dresses and mantles and tea-gowns with astonishing facility...
3. CHAPTER XVI.Miss West returned from her drive. She had been to Lord’s to see the Oxford and Cambridge cricket match. She had been surrounded by admirers, like flies round a pot of honey, an...
4. CHAPTER XVII.Laurence Wynne stood upon the platform and watched the Irish mail--“The Wild Irishman”--wind its great long body slowly out of the station--watched till the red light, like a fi...
5. CHAPTER XVIII.The guests at the castle were, as notified in a local paper, Lady Rachel Jenkins and Mr. Jenkins, the Honourable Mrs. Leach, Lord Anthony Foster, Miss Pamela Pace, Miss Peggy Lu...
6. CHAPTER XIX.“Attachment elsewhere? Nonsense!” irritably. “Why, she was at _school_ till I came home--till she met me on the steamer with her governess! You saw her yourself; so you may put...
7. CHAPTER XX.The postponed picnic to the Devil’s Pie-dish eventually came off. It took place on the occasion of what was called “a holiday of obligation,” when no good Catholics are allowed...
8. CHAPTER XXI.It was certainly strange that Lord Tony had not sought him out the evening after the picnic, said Mr. West to himself, considering that it was all settled now. Indeed, it struck...
9. CHAPTER XXII.And meanwhile what of Laurence Wynne? His short, smart sketches had made a hit. He was becoming a man of mark in literary as well as legal circles, and was overwhelmed with invi...
10. CHAPTER XXIII.Mr. West announced that he was obliged to run down to Brighton on business and would not return until late that night, and he commanded his daughter to write and ask Lady Rachel...
11. CHAPTER XXIV.A dapper man-servant (hired) next came upon the scene, and his astonishment was no less profound, though more skilfully concealed. He looked politely at Madeline, and said in hi...
12. CHAPTER XXV.All went merry as a marriage bell. The dinner was a success. There was no hitch; the laundress (with interludes devoted to the crack in the door) safely brought up course after...
13. CHAPTER XXVI.When the play was over the Wynnes prudently waited, and were almost the last to leave. But, even so, when they passed through the lobbies, a good many people were still to be se...
14. CHAPTER XXVII.“A telegram for you, sir,” said one of the clerks to Laurence Wynne, the following morning. Telegrams were a common arrival; but instinctively he felt that there was something u...
15. CHAPTER XXVIII.Mr. West was ably nursed, he was wiry, and he struggled back to a most trying, peevish convalescence, greatly hastened by Mrs. Leach’s assiduous attentions; and early in January...