Category: Novels
Certainly, Mr Tankardew was not a pattern of cleanliness, either in his house or his person. Someone had said of him sarcastically, "that there was nothing clean in his house but his _towels_;" and there was a great deal of truth in the remark. He seemed to dwell in an element...
"This way, this way," said Mr Tankardew, utterly unmoved by the expression of angry astonishment on the face of Mark Rothwell at the sudden conversion of his cup of liquid fire...
3. Chapter 3It is the morning after the juvenile party at "The Firs." A clear, bright frost still: everything _outside_ the house fresh and vigorous: half-a-dozen labourers' little children...
2. Chapter 2It is just noon, and Mrs Rothwell and her daughters are assembled in the drawing-room making elaborate preparations for the evening with holly, and artificial flowers and mottoe...
6. Chapter 6Music certainly flourished at "The Firs" and "The Shrubbery" under the able instructions of Mr John Randolph. The young man's manner was puzzling to his pupils at both houses. W...
7. Chapter 7No sooner was the door burst open, than in rushed several stout men, who proceeded to seize and handcuff the four strangers, who made but the faintest show of resistance. John G...
12. Chapter 12"All was joy for a time. We called our little one Mary; it was a name I loved. I had not lived as a total abstainer; though, as I told you once, my mother, whom I can only recol...
5. Chapter 5A Grand piano being carried into Mr Esau Tankardew's! What next! What _can_ the old gentleman want with a grand piano? Most likely he has taken it for a bad debt--some tenant so...
11. Chapter 11"You must know, dear friends," began the old man sadly, "that I'm a wiser man now than I was once. Not that there's much wisdom to boast of now; only I have learnt by experience...
8. Chapter 8"I'll tell you what it is, Mark, I _must_ have a stop put to this: my patience is quite worn out. Do you think I'm made of money? Do you think I can coin money as fast as you ch...
9. Chapter 9Several weeks had passed by after the accident and timely rescue, weeks of anxious watching and tender nursing, before Mary Franklin was sufficiently recovered from the shock an...
10. Chapter 10It is not to be supposed that Mary Franklin could mourn very deeply the departure of Mark Rothwell. Recent events had worn out the old impressions of tenderness. All that was br...
1. Chapter 1Certainly, Mr Tankardew was not a pattern of cleanliness, either in his house or his person. Someone had said of him sarcastically, "that there was nothing clean in his house bu...