Category: Novels

The Exclusives (vol. 3 of 3)

When Lady Delamere returned with her niece, and the latter had been left in a state of comparative composure to the best of all earthly restoratives, sleep, Lady Dunmelraise listened with anxious interest to the relation of her daughter's sudden indisposition, which Lady Delam...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

When Lady Delamere returned with her niece, and the latter had been left in a state of comparative composure to the best of all earthly restoratives, sleep, Lady Dunmelraise lis...

2. CHAPTER II.

When Lord Albert had sent his note of inquiry to Lady Adeline Seymour, he proceeded to Downing-street to meet Lord Glenmore, there to enter on his official duties; and, notwiths...

3. CHAPTER III.

It was late when Lady Glenmore returned from Lady Melcombe's; and as she drove home she pleased herself with the idea of talking over with her husband the insipid and insignific...

4. CHAPTER IV.

As Lord Albert ascended to the drawing-room, followed by Mr. George Foley, whom he had so inopportunely met at Lady Dunmelraise's door, he felt his heart beat quick within his b...

5. CHAPTER V.

The day at length arrived, to which so many had looked forward with lingering expectation, and which, to the young in general, was one of delightful anticipation. Among these, h...

6. CHAPTER VI.

As soon as Lord Albert was alone, and could recall his scattered senses, he reviewed every look and every gesture of Lady Adeline; and notwithstanding all that passed at the dra...

7. CHAPTER VII.

The allusion made by Lord Albert D'Esterre on the preceding evening to the _fête_ at Avington Park, his excuses and explanations on the subject of the ticket, together with Lady...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

Every one has felt, some time or other, that when the first warmth of indignation against a loved object begins to cool, the recollection of a thousand tender reminiscences come...

9. scene did not pass unobserved by Lord Albert, who recollected what

observations had been made before, by some of the same party, on Lady Glenmore at the drawing-room; and he felt he despised those who could thus lightly tamper with the honour o...

10. CHAPTER IX.

Had Lord Albert D'Esterre been himself at the time, and not the victim of contending passions, he would have left the _fête_ at Avington Priory the moment he had seen Lady Adeli...

11. CHAPTER X.

The _fête_ at Avington Priory afforded a theme of conversation, if such a term is not inapplicable to such a subject, of much longer duration than was usual; for in the existenc...

12. CHAPTER XI.

While events thus intimately connected with Lady Glenmore's happiness were silently progressing, Lord Albert D'Esterre's mind was engrossed and torn by a thousand contending fee...

13. CHAPTER XII.

However small the interest which Lady Tilney really took in preserving the purity of Lady Glenmore's character _intacte_, still her wishes for the preservation of that outward d...

14. CHAPTER XIII.

Whatever confidence Lord Glenmore felt in possessing the full and undivided affections of Lady Glenmore, yet the particulars of such a disclosure as had come to light, of her in...