Category: Novels
A few days before their departure for the sunny south, Miss West, her father, and several visitors were sitting in the drawing-room, the tall shaded lamps were lit, the fragrant five-o’clock cup was being dispensed by Madeline; who was not, as Lady Rachel remarked, in her usua...
A few days before their departure for the sunny south, Miss West, her father, and several visitors were sitting in the drawing-room, the tall shaded lamps were lit, the fragrant...
2. CHAPTER XXX.Mr. West and his new acquaintance had apparently an inexhaustible capital of conversation, and still kept up the ball, as other people departed one after the other. Madeline kne...
3. CHAPTER XXXI.Mr. West had enjoyed his dinner; his appetite was excellent--on a par with his daughter’s spirits. He asked no more troublesome questions, and departed to bed at an early hour....
4. CHAPTER XXXII.Laurence Wynne had taken but one person into his confidence, and that was Mr. Jessop. As he sat smoking a post-midnight cigar over the fire in his friend’s chambers, he told him...
5. CHAPTER XXXIII.It was a perfect afternoon, and Hurlingham was crowded. Every seat bordering the polo ground was occupied, and the brilliant hues of hats, gowns, and parasols made a sort of rib...
6. CHAPTER XXXIV.The first opportunity that Madeline could find she ventured a visit to the Holts. It was a lovely June morning as she walked up to the front entrance of the sequestered Farm. Sh...
7. CHAPTER XXXV.The house in Belgrave Square remained closed for many months, whilst its master roamed from one fashionable continental resort to another, in search of what he called health--bu...
8. CHAPTER XXXVI.Mr. West returned home early in the season, and inaugurated his arrival with new horses, new liveries, new footmen, and gave a series of most _recherché_ dinners. He would have...
9. CHAPTER XXXVII.In due time all preparations were completed for the reception of Mr. and Miss West’s guests. The grand staircase was lined with palm-trees and immense tropical ferns, and lights...
10. CHAPTER XXXVIII.Alas! what was this that she beheld, and that turned every vein in her body to ice? It was death for the first time. There before her, in the small cot, lay a little still figur...
11. CHAPTER XXXIX.“So you have, I declare. Dear heart alive! and aged by years, and just skin and bone. Sit down, sit down,” dragging forward a chair and feeling for the keys, with a view to a gl...
12. CHAPTER XL.The hurried expedition to the Holt Farm, and subsequent visit to Monk’s Norton, had not agreed with Miss West. She had a most mysterious relapse, inexplicable alike to her fathe...
13. CHAPTER XLI.The _Victoria_ was a crowded ship. There was a large contingent of Australian passengers, also many Anglo-Indians who changed at Aden, and a number of society swallows who were...
14. CHAPTER XLII.“Then, what would you think of taking me for a son-in-law?” said Mr. Wynne, fixing his dark eyes steadily on the little man opposite to him, who was busily shuffling the cards.
15. CHAPTER XLIII.The night of the conversation in the smoking-room, when Mr. West scrambled below in the dark--not knowing, as he subsequently explained it, whether he stood on his head or his h...