Category: Novels
The innocent fun and gaiety at the tea-table were long afterward remembered. There was an animated discussion as to who should take the head of the table. Phoebe wanted Aunt Leth to do so, but Fanny interfered, and said no one should sit there but Phoebe.
The audience filed slowly out of the theatre, discussing the unexpected and unprecedented climax with a certain hushed animation. Many of those who had been the noisiest veered...
15. CHAPTER XV.When Phoebe recovered her senses she found herself in her bedroom, with Mrs. Pamflett in attendance upon her. She was so dazed and confused that for a few minutes she could not...
9. CHAPTER IX.Mr. Linton's speech before the curtain served more than one good purpose with many of the dramatic critics. It diverted the attention of some from the demerits of the comedy dra...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Aunt Leth's statement to her husband that Tom Barley was going to Parksides to-night, and was determined to get some news of Phoebe, was in exact accordance with that faithful f...
11. CHAPTER XI.Jeremiah's "talk" with Miser Farebrother proved to be not entirely to the satisfaction of the younger juggler, and the few days of happiness which yet remained to Phoebe were no...
1. CHAPTER I.The innocent fun and gaiety at the tea-table were long afterward remembered. There was an animated discussion as to who should take the head of the table. Phoebe wanted Aunt Let...
6. CHAPTER VI.Three-quarters of an hour before it was time to start for the Star Theatre, Fred Cornwall with a cab was at the Lethbridges' door. There was no one but 'Melia Jane to receive hi...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Upon that day Jeremiah Pamflett, arrayed in a brand-new suit of clothes, with a flower in his button-hole (copying Captain Ablewhite as the pink of fashion), and carrying a bouq...
17. CHAPTER XVII.During these troublous months in Phoebe's life matters pregnant with momentous issues for weal or woe were progressing in the careers of others who are playing their parts in th...
12. CHAPTER XII.In his vague allusions to a future carriage, and to his becoming, in course of time, as rich as the Rothschilds, Jeremiah Pamflett built, as he supposed, upon a very solid found...
5. CHAPTER V."It's going to be performed to-morrow night, and master and missis and all the family 'll be there. I 'eerd it read. It was beautiful. It give me the creeps, and it made me laug...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Just before the man called out "False start," there had been a momentary lull in the room, the principal bets having been made and booked, but when the two words were spoken a b...
19. CHAPTER XIX.The "system" which Jeremiah Pamflett, after infinite patience, had discovered of winning large sums of money upon the turf did not turn out the absolute certainty which his calc...
16. CHAPTER XVI.From that day Phoebe's life in Parksides was, as Mrs. Pamflett had threatened, a torture, and had it not been that she was endowed with a reserved strength which lies latent in...
3. CHAPTER III.Life is sweet and beautiful to a young and innocent girl when to her heart is conveyed the assurance that she is beloved. Then is the world in its spring-time, and all outward e...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Outside the humble house in Lambeth in which Mr. Linton and his family occupied two modest rooms--and those not the best--Uncle Leth paced the lonely street. There was not a sou...
4. CHAPTER IV."But for my calling to him," interrupted Miser Farebrother, "upon a matter of business. I am pleased that your friends have enjoyed themselves. You have had a pleasant birthday,...
2. CHAPTER II.Jeremiah entered Miser Farebrother's room, holding in his hand the bouquet of flowers he had brought for Phoebe. He had debated within himself whether he should allow the miser...
10. CHAPTER X."Well, I went to the theatre last night, and sat in the pit, while Phoebe--_my_ Phoebe, mother--and her precious set were in a private box, dressed up to the nines, with flowers...