Category: Novels
After a highly successful career at one of the great London day-schools, he had gone up on a scholarship to the University, where, if indeed he had chosen to turn aside from the beaten paths of academic distinction, he had made good use of his time in more ways than one.
After a highly successful career at one of the great London day-schools, he had gone up on a scholarship to the University, where, if indeed he had chosen to turn aside from the...
2. CHAPTER II.He was back again; back to the old, full, strenuous life which was so dear to him; to the din and rush and struggle of the London which he loved with a passion that had somethin...
3. CHAPTER III.How should Love, Whom the cross-lightnings of four chance-met eyes Flash into fiery life from nothing, follow Such dear familiarities of dawn? Seldom; but when he does, Master o...
4. CHAPTER IV.Her mother, Israel Leuniger’s sister, had been thought to do very well for herself when she married Joshua Quixano, who came of a family of Portuguese merchants, the _vieille no...
5. CHAPTER V.Quand il pâlit un soir, et que sa voix tremblante S’éteignit tout à coup dans un mot commencé; Quand ses yeux, soulevant leur paupière brûlante, Me blessèrent d’un mal dont je l...
6. CHAPTER VI.Judith rose early the next morning and put the finishing touches to her embroidery. It was her mother’s birthday, and she had planned going to the Walterton Road after breakfast...
7. CHAPTER VII.Herbert, or, as he was generally spoken of, Bertie Lee-Harrison, called at Lancaster Gate on the day of the New Year, to make acquaintance with Reuben’s people and offer his bes...
8. CHAPTER VIII.It was nearly half-past seven, and it only wanted the arrival of the Samuel Sachses--who came from the St. John’s Wood synagogue--for the whole party to descend into the dining-...
9. CHAPTER IX.The party was never prolonged to a late hour on these occasions, and by ten o’clock there was no one left in the drawing-room in Portland Place except Mrs. Sachs, Mr. Leuniger,...
10. CHAPTER X.Leopold Leuniger came slouching down Chancery Lane, his hat at the back of his head, a woe-begone air on his expressive face, dejection written in his graceless, characteristic...
11. CHAPTER XI.I do not like this manner of a dance, This game of two and two; it were much better To mix between the pauses than to sit Each lady out of earshot with her friend. SWINBURNE: _C...
12. CHAPTER XII.There were two people sitting there, to all appearance completely absorbed in one another. In the distance, Judith’s head bending slightly forward, her profile, the curves of he...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Bertie, on his road to Albert Hall Mansions, was dreaming dreams; and Reuben, as he tossed on his sleepless bed, pondering plans for the coming contest, was disagreeably haunted...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The first thing of which she was aware was the sound of Rose’s voice, and then of Rose herself standing over her with a plate and a cup of coffee in her hand. Judith raised hers...
15. CHAPTER XV.There was a little set of shelves in Judith’s bedroom which contained the whole of her modest library, some twenty books in all--_Lorna Doone_; Carlyle’s _Sterling_; Macaulay’s...
16. CHAPTER XVI.She went over to him, drawing a chair close to his. Judith was always very kind to him, and he admired her immensely, treating her at intervals with a sort of gallantry.
17. CHAPTER XVII.Rose had a vision of bridesmaids’ gowns and of belted earls at the wedding. Lionel and Sidney, who always knew everything without being told, scented wedding-cake from afar, and...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.There is nothing more dear to the Jewish heart than an engagement; and when, four days after the events of the last chapter, that between Judith and Bertie was made public, cong...
19. CHAPTER XIX.“Does she think he is a cardboard man to play with, or an umbrella to take shelter under?” she reflected. “A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and...