Category: Novels
|UPON the fourth day after the reception of her Paris letter, my Lady had to leave Mirk for town on business connected with Walter's affairs--for, after all, she cannot permit his elder brother to bear the whole brunt of these unexpected expenses. Her visit was to the family l...
|UPON the fourth day after the reception of her Paris letter, my Lady had to leave Mirk for town on business connected with Walter's affairs--for, after all, she cannot permit h...
2. CHAPTER II. THE PARTIE QUARRÉ.|AS Walter had predicted, my Lady did not return to Mirk by the evening train, and scarcely under any circumstances could her absence have been more keenly felt. The four young...
3. CHAPTER III. A JOURNEY ON FOOT.|SOME men, when crossed or “put out,” take, like Sir Richard Lisgard, to whistling melodies--surely a very mild and harmless form of irritation. Others rap out a thunder-clap of...
4. CHAPTER IV. COVETON|COVETON--well known to ancient coupled who took their first honeymoons half a century ago--is one of those old-fashioned sea-side places that resolutely refuse to be “improved,...
5. CHAPTER V. THE MEMORIAL WINDOW.|NOTWITHSTANDING that Coveton Church is “gritty,” like all the rest of the architecture in that locality, and presents the appearance of an ecclesiastical edifice swathed in san...
6. CHAPTER VI. JACOB'S GUARD-SHIP.|WHATEVER evils may happen unto me, may Heaven spare my reason,” was the heartfelt prayer of a wise and reverent man. He might have added--for he was one of those who thought it...
7. CHAPTER VII. THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH.|IT is the morning that immediately precedes Sir Richard's fete-day, and all at the Abbey are as busy as a hive of bees. Mrs Welsh is engaged in incessant warfare with a “profes...
8. CHAPTER VIII. FLED.|MY Lady returned to the Abbey at the usual luncheon-hour, and partook of that meal (if sitting at the table can be called so doing) with the rest of the party; while Mary Fores...
9. CHAPTER IX. THE UNINVITED GUEST.|OLD Jacob Forest had made a well-grounded complaint when he cried out with such vehemence that that fellow Derrick had actually left the front door open, and the Guard-ship and...
10. CHAPTER X. OUT OF THE CAGE.|THE immense ball-room was now a blaze of light, and full, though by no means crowded, with brilliant company. One of the windows, as Steve had said, had been thrown up, and thr...
11. CHAPTER XI. THE RECONCILIATION.|THE day after a great festivity in a great house is generally a dull one. It begins late; for both servants and guests are wearied, and there is nothing about it which is not i...
12. CHAPTER XII. RALPH'S APPEAL.|HOWEVER Dr Haldane, at my Lady's own request, may have misrepresented to the young folks at the Abbey the motives which had caused her flight, he told them truth as respected D...
13. CHAPTER XIII. DYING WORDS.|THUS adjured, Madame de Castellan stepped forward to the same position which Mary Forest had occupied at the foot of the bed: nowhere else could Ralph see her, for he was on hi...
14. CHAPTER XIV. AND LAST.|If there had happened to be any one upon whom poor Ralph's wild talk, on the night of the Abbey festivities, had made any serious impression whatever, it was destined to be rem...