Category: Romance
A bright sunny morning, at the end of June, in busy, restless London. The overarching vault of heaven was filled with an atmosphere of golden hue. Sunshine was glowing upon cathedral turrets and upon the church spires, upon the pinnacles of lofty buildings, and the crowns of t...
Mr. Grahame’s dissertation upon the improvement of land and the general economy and management of estates had been abruptly interrupted by the entrance of his daughter into the...
15. CHAPTER XV.--THE PROPOSITION.Mr. Grahame entered his library, on the morning following his interview with Chewkle, at least an hour before the time appointed for the return of that individual, with the deed...
9. CHAPTER IX.--THE MYSTERY.Helen Grahame, with her hand tightly clutching the wrist of the young man with whom she had been in such tender converse, retreated noiselessly into the deepest shadows of the s...
11. CHAPTER XI.--SHADOWS.Her handkerchief, which she had dropped during her interview with Hugh Riversdale in the thicket, yet glared before her eyes as it had done when presented by him who, with a sha...
5. CHAPTER V.--THE CONFLAGRATION.The events of the morning in which he had taken so prominent a part presented to Hal Vivian, when alone in his chamber, that evening, rather a wide field for contemplation. He w...
12. CHAPTER XII.--A LIFE STRUGGLE.Within a close, narrow, scantily-furnished chamber, upon a miserable bed, sparely provided with bedclothes, lay a young girl, weak and wasted, struggling in the deadly grip of a...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--THE PRISON.When they together reached the lodge, or gate, as it is called, of the Queen’s Prison, Hal and Flora gazed with surprise on the motley group waiting for the door to be unlocked,...
16. CHAPTER XVI.--SELFISHNESS AND SORROW.If Flora Wilton’s lovely countenance had so remarkable an effect upon the Duke of St. Allborne, and specially upon the heart of the Honorable Lester Vane, it is very certain tha...
14. CHAPTER XIV.--LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.When Hal Vivian and Flora Wilton, summoned by Nathan Gomer, rejoined old Wilton, prior to his departure from the Queen’s Bench, they found him at the gate, leading into the ante...
4. CHAPTER IV.--THE FORGERY.Charley had barely re-entered the room when Mr. Jukes burst into it with a sudden crash, followed by Sudds and Nutty, A noisy and angry colloquy instantly ensued, but Charley wa...
10. CHAPTER X.--THE INEXPLICABLE LIBERATION.The emotion displayed by old Wilton when Colonel Mires made himself known to him by reference to an incident which had occurred to him at a period now long past, was a mystery t...
7. CHAPTER VII.--LOVE AWAKENING.In that dreadful moment, when the house in which she had for years resided was a prey to the raging flames, when her own escape--owing to the fearful rapidity with which the fir...
1. CHAPTER I.--THE SHADOW IN THE SUNSHINE.A bright sunny morning, at the end of June, in busy, restless London. The overarching vault of heaven was filled with an atmosphere of golden hue. Sunshine was glowing upon cath...
3. CHAPTER III.--POSSESSION DISTURBED.In the dreams of Harry Vivian the delicate form and sweet, smiling face of Flora Wilton had appeared to him, and not unfrequently. But then she seemed ever to be some queen of f...
6. CHAPTER VI.--THE NOBLE GUESTS.Mr. Grahame, though greatly agitated at the sudden appearance and abrupt disappearance of Nathan Gomer, at a moment of such dread importance, did not make any comment upon it to...
2. CHAPTER II.--THE WORM UPON THE LEAF.Sunbeams making a golden palace of a Gothic mansion in the Regent’s Park, gilding its fretted roof, its traceries, and its triple arched and ornamented windows, tinting the grac...