England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
Oliver was happy enough to discover, in the course of an evening call which Jack Dadd paid at the mill-house, that Jack had turned his mind a little in the direction of the rearing of vegetables, and the training and bearing of fruit trees. He had a voice in making the best of...
Oliver was happy enough to discover, in the course of an evening call which Jack Dadd paid at the mill-house, that Jack had turned his mind a little in the direction of the rear...
2. CHAPTER XII.Harry Stanhope was welcomed with open arms by everybody in Friarton, and Horace was more than tolerated for his brother’s sake. Fan Constable had struck the key-note of public o...
3. CHAPTER XIII.Oliver nourished the forlorn hope that he might do something with the girls of his rank in raising their aspirations and refining their habits. They at least belonged to the gen...
4. CHAPTER XIV.After all, if Oliver had always been ushered into the drawing-room which these closed books were supposed to embellish, he would not have found many traces of higher aspirations...
5. CHAPTER XV.It was something quite different from the day with their employers, which is such a popular piece of patronage on the part of large firms. The _employés_ had nothing to do with...
6. CHAPTER XVI.It was Oliver Constable’s misfortune that he could no more make a speech, unless under high pressure, than he could dance a minuet; so that when there was toast-giving chiefly t...
7. CHAPTER XVII.Before the autumn had well begun, while the Stanhopes flattered themselves they were like the other farmers in the heat of harvest work, their only sister was permitted to come...
8. CHAPTER XVIII.The next public appearance which Oliver made was in delivering a lecture on Wordsworth in the town-hall, which was readily lent to any respectable lecturer, native or foreign, w...
9. CHAPTER XIX.Oliver Constable, watching the young aristocratic beauty Agneta Stanhope masquerading with her brothers, thought of Marie Antoinette essaying a Dresden china shepherdess’s life...
10. CHAPTER XX.There was one man of Friarton descent whose distinguished fortunes occurred not once only to Fan Constable’s mind as presenting a marked contrast to her brother’s perverse crotc...
11. CHAPTER XXI.Oliver was a little liable to look over the heads of his subordinates as well as his equals, to be possessed by his purpose instead of possessing it, and to follow it out—having...
12. CHAPTER XXII.Oliver suited the action to the word, flung off his coat, bared his long sinewy arms to the shoulders, advanced to the vacant board, and laid hold of the dough fast becoming fla...