Category: Romance
Geoffrey was not to be baulked of his purpose. He sat till long after midnight in the music-room with his mother--sat or roamed about in the ample spaces of that fine apartment, talking in his own wild way, with that restless, fitful romanticism which had marked him from child...
Geoffrey was not to be baulked of his purpose. He sat till long after midnight in the music-room with his mother--sat or roamed about in the ample spaces of that fine apartment,...
2. CHAPTER II.Geoffrey Wornock went back to Discombe, and his mother read failure and mortification in his gloomy countenance; but he vouchsafed no confidence. He was not sullen or unkind. He...
3. CHAPTER III.Allan lost no time in making his preparations. He ordered everything that Cecil Patrington told him to order, and in all things followed the advice of that experienced traveller...
4. CHAPTER IV.A year and more, spring and summer, autumn and winter, had gone by since Allan Carew and his companions set their faces towards the Dark Continent; and now it was spring again,...
5. CHAPTER V.At Tabora there had been a long halt, a delay forced upon the travellers by the conditions of climate, by the sickness and the idleness of their caravan; but this interval of re...
6. CHAPTER VI.The rainy season was over. The moving wall of water was down. The travellers were no longer kept awake at night by the ceaseless roar of the rain. The lake lay stretched before...
7. CHAPTER VII.One had been taken. That which seemed to Geoffrey Wornock inevitable in the history of African travel had been accomplished. The Dark Continent had claimed its tribute of human...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The deep-toned organ pealed through the empty manor-house in the gloom of a rainy summer afternoon. Not once in the long dull day had the sun looked through the low, dull sky; a...
9. CHAPTER IX.It was nearly a month after Lady Emily's appearance at Discombe, and there had been no letter from Geoffrey. Every day had increased Mrs. Wornock's anxiety, and in the face of a...
10. CHAPTER X.Before the sun had gone down upon the second day after Geoffrey's return, his engagement to Miss Vincent had become known to almost every member of Matcham society who had any r...
11. CHAPTER XI.No more was seen or heard of Lady Emily at Matcham. Except the one fact that she had returned to Suffolk on the morning after her brief appearance at the Manor, nothing more was...
12. CHAPTER XII.Morning brought no relief of mind to Mrs. Wornock, since it brought no news of her son; but before night there was even greater anxiety at Beechhurst, where Allan Carew's mother...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Days grew into weeks, and the slow, anxious hours brought very little change in Allan's condition, and certainly no change which the doctors could call a substantial improvement...
14. CHAPTER XIV.It was the day which was to have seen Suzette's wedding--the thirteenth of December, a dull, mild December, promising that green Christmas which is said to people churchyards wi...