Category: Historical Novels
The wedding feast was cleared away, the guests had departed, and the last joy peal with its varied chimes, and crashing cannons from the old church tower was sounding musically through the mountain valley.
Mr. de Burgh's return was somewhat opportunely delayed until the day following the one on which he was expected, so that Mary had only for one evening to maintain the, to her, v...
13. CHAPTER XIII.They entered at last upon the domain of Montrevor, a very fine estate, on much the same scale, and not very different in style, to the mansion of Silverton; a not uncommon simil...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Their talk was of the future; from the height Of Hope, they saw the landscape bath'd in light, And where the golden dimness veil'd the gaze, Guess'd out the spot, and marked the...
10. CHAPTER X.Lo! where the paling cheek, the unconscious sigh, The slower footstep, and the heavier eye, Betray the burthen of sweet thoughts and mute, The slight tree bows beneath the golde...
17. CHAPTER XVII.The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me; Too many eyes are gazing Upon the costly tree. But there's a rose in yonder glen That shuns the gaze of other men, For me...
4. CHAPTER IV.The good old couple, awakened from their refreshing slumber, had already sent a servant in search of their missing niece, wondering a little what could keep her out so late upon...
6. CHAPTER VI.Alas! when angry words begin Their entrance on the lip to win; When sullen eye and flushing cheek Say more than bitterest tone could speak, And look and word, than fire or steel...
2. CHAPTER II.Once, and once only, let me speak Of all that I have felt for years; You read it not upon my cheek, You dreamed not of it in my tears.
18. CHAPTER XVIII..... Manhood's earliest youth Shone from the clear eye with a light like truth. There play'd that fearless smile with which we meet The sward that hides the swamp before our fee...
9. CHAPTER IX.Mrs. de Burgh's expedition the preceding day did not prove without its fruits. For the next few days, several idle young men of the neighbourhood, who had nothing better to do,...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Fortunately for Mary Seaham's health and spirits, the following day, she was troubled with no more such bewildering dreams throughout the remainder of that night, and when the b...
11. CHAPTER XI.I thank thee for that downcast look, and for that blushing cheek, I would not have thee raise those eyes, I would not have thee speak. Tho' mute, I deem thee eloquent, I ask no...
3. CHAPTER III.And so, beloved one--life's all--farewell! Still by my hearth thy gentle shade shall dwell, Still shall my soul, where night the dreariest seem, Fly back to thee, O soft--O vani...
12. CHAPTER XII.She hath flung Her all upon the venture of her vow, And in her trust leans meekly, like a flower, By the still river tempted from its stem And on its bosom floating.
1. CHAPTER I.The wedding feast was cleared away, the guests had departed, and the last joy peal with its varied chimes, and crashing cannons from the old church tower was sounding musically...
5. CHAPTER V.Silverton was a fine estate, and though the country in which it was situated was tame and unlovely in comparison with that to which she had been for so long accustomed, yet Mary...
16. CHAPTER XVI.She watch'd for him at dawn, and she watched for him at noon, Tho' well she knew she could not hope to see him come so soon; She could not rest, but peeping thro' her casement's...
7. CHAPTER VII.Mrs. de Burgh soon after led Mary to the drawing-room, when all that was kind and affectionate, and calculated to reassure her young guest's mind, with regard to her previously...