Category: Novels
When Henry Vizetelly, that admirable scholar, historian, and journalist, was sent to prison for publishing Zola's novels mine were taken over by Walter Scott, and all were reprinted except “Spring Days.” This book was omitted from the list of my acknowledged works, for public...
Glad to have a companion, Frank took out the violin, and he played all the melodies he knew; and his mind ran chiefly on Schubert and Gounod. The “Soir,” the “Printemps,” and “L...
19. Chapter 19“Wait a minute; wait a minute. I knew her long before I knew you; I have known her since I was a boy, but that doesn't mean that I have been in love with her since I was a boy....
20. Chapter 20“I never knew her. I fell in love with her the first time I saw her, and my love swallowed up everything else. Then I wasn't wrapped up in account-books, although I was always a...
21. Chapter 21“I took I won't tell you how many glasses before I proposed to my wife, and then I was afraid; enough to make me--a clever woman like Mrs. Horlock, I believe you wouldn't find a...
6. Chapter 6“Yes, but not like they were. And all that nonsense with their napkins under the table. If you didn't see it, so much the better. I thought everybody saw it. I wish Sally wouldn...
15. Chapter 15“Yes, it struck me that we might both go round to the fellow's hotel--Stracey, you call him, I think--and you might tell him that his visits must cease at the Manor House, and t...
8. Chapter 8Lady Seveley's house was a house of scent and soft carpets. The staircase was covered with pink silk, and in the recess on the first landing, or rather where the stairs paused,...
18. Chapter 18“The house is full of people--people whom I have known all my life--and they make a great deal of me. I have to tell them about Italy, and they ask me absurd questions about Mic...
4. Chapter 4“Oh, there you are!” cried Frank, and he lifted his stick, and called sharply to a large black and white bull-dog that paddled about on its bow legs, saliva dripping from its hu...
10. Chapter 10They passed a summer-house where three girls were sitting; one sat on the edge of a table and sang the ballad of “Biddy Malone.” There was a house so red, and so full of gables...
22. Chapter 22“I say it is not fair; a man of my money should have a comfortable home to return to. Even the Southdown Road people have that; but no consideration is shown to me. My dinner is...
1. Chapter 1When Henry Vizetelly, that admirable scholar, historian, and journalist, was sent to prison for publishing Zola's novels mine were taken over by Walter Scott, and all were repri...
9. Chapter 9“I assure you she is nothing to me, a mere acquaintance. I was angry because I thought it a piece of impertinence of the fellow to come intruding his conversation when it wasn't...
5. Chapter 5“I have, but it would strengthen my hand if you were to tell her all you know of my father. Tell her that he is very obstinate, pig-headed, and would certainly cut me off; tell...
16. Chapter 16“Admit that there is something in what I say. If you will behave a little more quietly--if you will talk to her nicely; leave off assuring her of your love, she knows all that a...
2. Chapter 2“You did it that you might finish your conversation with young Meason,” said Mr. Brookes, but his words were weak, it being doubtful if even Meason could add to the original off...
13. Chapter 13Frank took up a volume of Browning, turned over the leaves, and laid the book down to watch a drove of horses that had suddenly been turned out on the green to feed, and he laug...
17. Chapter 17“I would do more for you than any one else, Frank, but business is business, and the man who has my daughter must settle a sum of money equivalent to what I settle.”
11. Chapter 11“Yes, isn't it? And particularly for a fellow who has so few amusements, and only cares about making money. Just look at him now; he wanders about speaking to no one. Come, let'...
7. Chapter 7Here Aunt Mary's thoughts and words began to fail her, for she felt she was not getting back to the point where she had entered on her various digressions, and without further a...
12. Chapter 12They walked towards a block of cottages--at one end the “Cricketer's Arms,” at the other the grocery business; and the cottage that joined the grocery business was remarkable fo...
3. Chapter 3“The neighbourhood has never been the same since they put up that row of villas. A lot of indigent fortune-hunters, they know my girls will have large fortunes at my death, so t...
23. Chapter 23“I have always said that my father brings all his troubles on himself. He never went in for the country people; he never would have people at the Manor House. You can't shut up...