Category: Novels
I am going to tell you a story of real life--one of those histories that in point of fact are common enough; but, hidden within themselves as they generally are, are thought to be so rare, and, if proclaimed to the world in all their strange details, are looked upon as a roman...
I am going to tell you a story of real life--one of those histories that in point of fact are common enough; but, hidden within themselves as they generally are, are thought to...
2. CHAPTER II.Marmaduke Carr, of whom mention has been made, was one of the Westerbury manufacturers--a widower, and a wealthy man. He had only one son living--Robert; two other children had...
3. CHAPTER III.Mrs. George Arkell sat near her breakfast-table, deeply intent on a letter recently delivered. The apartment was a rather spacious one, handsomely fitted up. It was the general...
4. CHAPTER IV.Mrs. Dan Arkell (wholly despising Mildred's acknowledged impression of the new visitor, and treating her to a sharp lecture for entertaining it) had made a call on Miss Travice...
5. CHAPTER V.In a quiet and remote street of the city was situated the house of Mr. Carr. Robert Carr walked towards it, with a moody look upon his face, after quitting William Arkell--a pla...
6. CHAPTER VI.The time again went on--went on to March--and still Charlotte Travice lingered. It was some little while now that both Mr. and Mrs. Arkell had come to the conclusion within thei...
7. CHAPTER VII.Mildred Arkell, in the midst of her agony, had the good sense to see that some extraordinary misapprehension had occurred, either on her mother's part or on Mrs. Arkell's; that...
8. CHAPTER VIII.They were grouped together in Mrs. Arkell's sitting-room, their faces half-indistinct in the growing twilight. Mrs. Arkell herself, doing nothing as usual; Mildred by her side,...
9. CHAPTER IX.The wedding day of Mr. William Arkell and Miss Travice dawned. All had gone well, and was going on well towards completion. You who have learnt to like Mildred Arkell, may proba...
10. CHAPTER X.A week or two given to grief, and Mildred Arkell sat down to deliberate upon her plans for the future. It was impossible to conceal from herself, dutiful, loving, grieving daugh...
11. CHAPTER XI.Rare nuts for Westerbury to crack! So delightful a dish of gossip had not been served up to it since that affair of Robert Carr's. Miss Arkell was going out as lady's-maid!
12. CHAPTER XII.The next twelvemonth brought little of event, if we except the birth of a boy to William Arkell and his wife. In the month of March, nearly a year after their marriage, the chil...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The years rolled on, bringing their changes. Indeed, the first portions of this history are more like a panorama, where you see a scene here, and then go on to another scene the...
14. CHAPTER XIV.They were gathered in the old familiar sitting-room the night of her arrival at Westerbury. Peter and Mildred sat at the table, Mrs. Peter Arkell lay on her sofa; the children r...
15. CHAPTER XV.The tender green of early spring was on the new leaves of the cathedral elm trees. Not sufficient to afford a shade yet; but giving promise of its fulness ere the sultry days of...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Henry Arkell had been in the college school rather more than a year, and also in the choir--for he entered the two almost simultaneously, his fine voice obtaining him the place...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Amidst those who held a strong opinion on the subject of the concert--and it did not in any great degree differ from the men's--was Mr. Arkell. Mrs. Arkell knew of this, but nev...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Never did there rise a brighter morning than the one on which the amateur concert was to take place. And Westerbury was in a ferment of excitement; carriages were rolling about,...