Category: Historical Novels
|IT is an hour short of midnight, and the depth of winter. The morrow is Christmas Day. Mirk Abbey bears snow everywhere; inches thick upon its huge broad coping-stones; much even on its sloping roof, save on the side where the north wind makes fitful rushes, and, wolf-like, t...
|IT is an hour short of midnight, and the depth of winter. The morrow is Christmas Day. Mirk Abbey bears snow everywhere; inches thick upon its huge broad coping-stones; much ev...
2. CHAPTER II. THE WAITS.|ONCE more my Lady is alone, except for her companion-thoughts, which are, however, no longer of a distressing nature. The reconcilement of her boys has gladdened her to the cor...
3. CHAPTER III. ONLY “THE HEART.|IGNORANT of the ruin it had wrought, the rich full voice of the stranger still rang forth, manifestly to the admiration of the confidential maid, since her nimble tongue failed...
4. CHAPTER IV. SIR RICHARD GAINS HIS POINT.|I DON'T know how it was in the Monkish times in England, but it appears that the keeping of religious days--always excepting the Sabbath--is not in accordance with the genius o...
5. CHAPTER V. MASTER WALTER.|THE day after Christmas Day was friendly to the fox; in other words, a hard frost; and since Miss Rose Aynton and Letty had declined to play at billiards with Walter until the...
6. CHAPTER VI. THE RACING-STABLE.|IT was Mr Chifney in person who admitted Walter Lisgard, after a precautionary glance at him through a little grating, which doubtless the monks had used for a similar purpose,...
7. CHAPTER VII. A BROKEN FRIENDSHIP.|WEEKS and months have passed by at Mirk Abbey; the snow has thawed, and the cold winds of March have done their worst, and the spring is clothing nature's nakedness with garmen...
8. CHAPTER VIII. AT THE WATERSMEET.|LADY LISGARD and her young friend had by this time arrived at the Waters-meet, a lovely spot, where the river branched into two streams, the one still pursuing its course throu...
9. CHAPTER IX. IN THE LIBRARY.|OF all the pleasant rooms--and they were many--that were to be found at Mirk Abbey, the Library was by far the most charming. An architect might have said that the rest of the...
10. CHAPTER X. MISS ROSE AYNTON “COPIES OUT.|FOR some minutes there was a total silence in the vast apartment, very oppressive to at least one of the two persons present, “How long did this proud girl intend to remain and...
11. CHAPTER XI. UP EARLY.|IT has been justly observed that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. The statement is a very safe one, and might have been made a great deal more comp...
12. CHAPTER XII. THE TRIAL|THE sun had risen, and the long waste of Down stretched far and wide on all sides; a broad and level track as smooth as any lawn, with here and there a long but gentle slope, m...
13. CHAPTER XIII. AT SIR ROBERT'S GRAVE.|IT had been observed, as I have already said, that my Lady had not left the Abbey grounds for these many weeks; but there had been one exception to that course of conduct. She...
14. CHAPTER XIV. ONCE MORE IN MY LADY'S CHAMBER.|AS my Lady left the churchyard by the wicket-gate, she caught the flutter of a female dress that flitted on before her, and vanished in the regions belonging to the domestics....