England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
OLD mills which were built to be worked by water power are mostly picturesque objects in the landscape. They command without fail certain advantages of situation. Certainly they are not likely to possess extensive views, where they stand in the low lands which claim a fall of...
OLD mills which were built to be worked by water power are mostly picturesque objects in the landscape. They command without fail certain advantages of situation. Certainly they...
2. CHAPTER II.FAN CONSTABLE was in the drawing-room of the mill-house, awaiting the return of her brother from his last term at Oxford. A mill-house may have its drawing-room, and its son may...
3. CHAPTER III.THE brother and sister met with the ‘Here I am, Fan,’ and the ‘So you’ve got home, Oliver,’ of the thoroughly English brother and sister, who, however cordially attached and how...
4. CHAPTER IV.‘Well, granted I am not a blockhead, even granted I were a genius, which would be a gross delusion—stop, I’ll light my pipe, as we’ve got the length of talking the matter calmly...
5. CHAPTER V.‘THINK twice over what you are going to do,’ urged Fan, for the last time. ‘I tell you that you look back on the past softened by distance, and I suppose surrounded by a sort of...
6. CHAPTER VI.‘YOUR settling down here as a tradesman, Oliver, will be a nice story for Mrs. Hilliard and Catherine,’ said Fan Constable, tartly, over the breakfast-table next morning. For Fa...
7. CHAPTER VII.AT last Mrs. Hilliard came briskly into the room still wearing her hat. She could not, although she had tried, have walked otherwise than briskly; and if she had been a duchess,...
8. CHAPTER VIII.OLD Peter Constable had been a good master in more senses than one—a better master, inasmuch as he and his servants understood each other, than his son seemed likely to prove. P...
9. CHAPTER IX.OLIVER was standing before the mulberry-bush in the mill-house court watching the colony of white ducks which waddled up from the water and claimed their right in the dropping m...
10. CHAPTER X.OLIVER got into a habit of standing in his shop-door, leaning against one or other of the door-posts. He stood there to keep his weaknesses well in hand, as a declaration of war...