Category: Novels

Only an Irish Girl

"Ah, mavourneen, may yez never see that day!" nurse Walsh murmurs with passionate fondness, as she takes the girl's hand between her own broad palms and presses and fondles it. "Shure it's like yesterday--I mind it so well--that yer mother, as she lay dying beyant there, in he...

Chapters

10. Chapter 10

Honor hastens down the avenue, looking neither to the right nor left. Her head is dizzy, her heart beating heavily in this nervous dread that has come upon her. She starts at ev...

5. Chapter 5

But the nights are dark enough now--it is an almost sunless September, and yet they see nothing of the figure. To Honor has come an additional trouble--the engagement between he...

1. Chapter 1

"Ah, mavourneen, may yez never see that day!" nurse Walsh murmurs with passionate fondness, as she takes the girl's hand between her own broad palms and presses and fondles it....

4. Chapter 4

"Oh, Honor, is it true?" Belle Delorme cries breathlessly, as she meets her friend midway on the Rectory lawn. "Launce has been telling us--but sure he laughed so we couldn't be...

2. Chapter 2

"Of course--you've fallen in love with him, Belle!" Honor retorts coolly. "You fall in love with every good-looking man you meet. The only marvel to me is how easily you contriv...

7. Chapter 7

A chill gray dawn is breaking when Honor Blake opens her eyes. She is in bed in her own room, and her father is siting beside her, watchful and anxious. At first she wonders to...

3. Chapter 3

But what harm can come? she asks herself. The country is quiet enough now to all appearance, though more than once, in the dusk, she has heard the shrill signal whistle pealing...

6. Chapter 6

Kate Dundas's most bitter enemies cannot deny that she is a beautiful woman. Dangerous she may be--a modern Circe, many of whose admirers find their way to Kilmainham, but, abov...

9. Chapter 9

Never has time passed so slowly to Honor Blake. All the morning she goes about her work with a listless preoccupied air that could not fail to attract attention if there were an...

8. Chapter 8

It seems as if the old man's life is fading with the year. The shot that entered his arm shattered the bone immediately below the elbow, and, the wound not healing, this, togeth...