Category: Novels
A PROVINCIAL Virginia race-course is an excellent place to observe a people which has preserved its distinctiveness as well as the Virginians. So far, they have escaped that general and fatiguing likeness which prevails in most of the universe these days.
A PROVINCIAL Virginia race-course is an excellent place to observe a people which has preserved its distinctiveness as well as the Virginians. So far, they have escaped that gen...
2. CHAPTER II.DOES anybody ever ask what becomes of the _prime donne_ who break down early? Madame Koller could have told something about their miseries, from the first struggling steps up to...
3. CHAPTER III.A ROUND of solemn afternoon dinings followed the return of the Berkeleys to Isleham, and were scrupulously returned. But both the Colonel and Olivia felt that it would not be we...
4. CHAPTER IV.A WEEK or two after the dinner at Isleham, Pembroke sat in his office, one afternoon, at the county-seat, with a letter spread out before him. It was very thumbed and illiterate...
5. CHAPTER V.A FEW Sundays after that, Mr. Cole’s heart was gladdened by the sight of Madame Koller and the bundle of cloaks and mufflers she called her mamma, walking in church just as the...
6. CHAPTER VI.MEANWHILE poor Mr. Ahlberg, condemned to the solitude of the village tavern, varied by daily visits to The Beeches and occasional ones to his acquaintances, the Pembrokes and th...
7. CHAPTER VII.TO say that Pembroke was angry with Cole is hardly putting it strong enough. He ardently longed that he might once again inflict a thrashing upon him like those Cole had been wo...
8. CHAPTER VIII.POOR Bob Henry, shut up in the county jail, had indeed said aright when he wrote Pembroke that both blacks and whites were “agin him.” Pembroke could scarcely find one of the ne...
9. CHAPTER IX.IT took two or three days for Pembroke to recover from his fatigue and excitement. Perhaps he did not hasten his complete recuperation. It was surely pleasanter to come down to...
10. CHAPTER X.THE sudden pang which wrenched poor Mr. Cole’s heart when he heard that Madame Koller would soon leave the county, and the country as well, was vain suffering. For Madame Koller...
11. CHAPTER XI.THE winter had lapsed into spring. It was April--the May of colder climates. In a week--a day--Nature had rushed into bloom. Even Madame Koller, who cared little for these thing...
12. CHAPTER XII.WHEN two weeks had passed, Pembroke still had not gone to Isleham--but in that time much had happened. The congressional convention had been held, and the ball had been opened f...
13. CHAPTER XIII.ONE of the drawbacks of Arcadia is that everybody knows everybody else’s business--and the possibility of this added to Pembroke’s extreme mortification. He thought with dread o...
14. CHAPTER XIV.IT takes a long time for a country neighborhood to recover from a sensation. Three or four years after Madame Koller, or Eliza Peyton had disappeared along with her mother and A...
15. CHAPTER XV.THE night of the ball arrived. Olivia and her father, the De Peysters and Pembroke had all agreed to go in one party. The De Peysters had been very kind and attentive to Olivia....
16. CHAPTER XVI.WHILE Olivia might wince, and the Colonel chuckle over the Volkonsky incident, it was a more serious matter to Volkonsky. He had certainly taken into account the possibility of...
17. CHAPTER XVII.A MONTH--six weeks--two months passed after the Russian Minister’s ball. The Grand Duke had called informally on the President, accompanied of course by the Minister, but his vi...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.WASHINGTON society did not see much of Pembroke that winter. He worked very hard, and in the afternoons he took long, solitary rides. Sometimes in his rides he would meet Olivia...
19. CHAPTER XIX.THE quaint old house, and the straggling, half-kept grounds at Isleham were never lovelier than that spring. Sometimes the extreme quiet and repose had weighed upon Olivia’s spi...