Category: Novels
PAGE A Bad Dream 1 Esther 31 Kate Radcliffe 68 Mr. Whittaker’s Retirement 87 Confessions of a Self-tormentor 108 A letter to the ‘Rambler’ 124 A letter from the Authoress of ‘Judith Crowhurst’ 137 Clearing-up after a storm in January 149 The end of the North Wind 151 Romney Ma...
Since the day we were married Charles and I have never openly quarrelled. He is really good: he spends his evenings at home and does not seem to desire entertainment elsewhere....
4. Chapter 4When the document just mentioned has been signed, I shall send a copy of it to the rector of your parish. Without it he will know nothing but what you and your mother tell him,...
5. Chapter 5‘Doubt, my child—yes, even the faithful are sometimes troubled with doubt, a temptation from the Enemy of souls. Were you one of the flock I could prescribe for you. But perhaps...
8. Chapter 8Soon afterwards I read _Jane Eyre_ again, and was more than ever astonished at it. It is not to be classed; it is written not by a limited human personality but by Nature hersel...
6. Chapter 6It was on a Wednesday when I received my appointment, and on Monday I was to begin. I said my prayers more fervently that night than I had said them for years, and determined th...
7. Chapter 7About a twelvemonth after Mrs. A.’s death I fell sick with inflammation of the lungs. Once before, when I was ill, I declined my aunt’s attendance. I said that I did not believe...
9. Chapter 9It is wonderful that winter should suddenly abdicate and summer resume her throne. On a morning like this there is no death, the sin of the world is swallowed up; theological an...
11. Chapter 11Whatever may be the meaning of the process of the world, however disheartening some steps in its evolution may be, they are necessary, and without them, perhaps, some evil could...
12. Chapter 12Everybody in these civilised, intercommunicative days seems arrested: everybody is a compromise. It is rare that we meet with a person who has been let alone, whose own particul...
13. Chapter 13Luders’ essay three parts of a century ago showed conclusively that Holinshed’s and Shakespeare’s Prince of Wales, as we see him in the play of _Henry IV._, wild and dissolute w...
1. Chapter 1PAGE A Bad Dream 1 Esther 31 Kate Radcliffe 68 Mr. Whittaker’s Retirement 87 Confessions of a Self-tormentor 108 A letter to the ‘Rambler’ 124 A letter from the Authoress of ‘Ju...
10. Chapter 10The changes in the sky in this Quantock country are as sudden and strange as in Cumberland. During a walk from Cleeve Abbey to Bicknoller it rained in torrents till within half...
2. Chapter 2Miss Taggart, as the reader has been told, was not particularly fond of Mrs. Poulter and Mr. Goacher, but to stay with Mrs. Mudge and Miss Everard was impossible. She had also o...
14. Chapter 14_Julius Cæsar_.—Casca is indignant that Cæsar should be offered the crown, but he despises the applause of the mob when Cæsar rejected it. ‘The rabblement hooted and clapped the...