Category: Romance
It was, as we have seen, through, the remarkable and unexpected return of Colonel Mires to England, and the no less singular circumstance of the rencontre in the Queen’s Bench, that old Wilton was reinstated in the position from which years back he had been, by the harsh rigou...
When Helen Grahame opened her eyes, after a somewhat protracted sleep, she looked around her for a minute in unutterable surprise. The morning previously, she had awakened in an...
11. CHAPTER XI.--THE UNPLEASANT CONFERENCE.Mr. Chewkle--attired as a traveller about to undertake a long journey--entered the waiting-room of the Great Western Railway Station on the morning following his interview with...
5. CHAPTER V.--THE GOLD AND THE ALLOY.The flight of Helen Grahame from her home was not followed by a convulsion of the household. Its internal economy proceeded with the same regularity as before. Mrs. Grahame, _mi...
1. CHAPTER I.--SUITORSIt was, as we have seen, through, the remarkable and unexpected return of Colonel Mires to England, and the no less singular circumstance of the rencontre in the Queen’s Bench,...
13. CHAPTER XIII.--A SISTER’S LOVELotte Clinton, returning home to her apartment with some fresh work from the persons who employed her, arrived near to her abode at the culminating point of a great disturbance...
10. CHAPTER X.--THE OLD MAN AND HIS DAUGHTER.Wilton did not observe wherefore his daughter quitted his arm, and re-entered the breakfast-room. In all probability, if he had seen the little incident which followed, he would...
9. CHAPTER IX.--LESTER VANE AND VIVIAN.Hal had quickly come to a sense of what constituted his predilection for Flora. He admired her beauty, her sweetness of manner and amiability of disposition. These emotions conc...
3. CHAPTER III.--THE STRICKEN DEER.So Lotte Clinton began the world afresh. Her prospects were newer and brighter. Since she had been flung abruptly and rudely upon the hard world, she had not known such true com...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--THE COMPACT.Mr. Chewkle, with a tolerably large sum of money in his pocket, felt quite a different man to the Mr. Chewkle hunted, like a fox, by a pack of policemen, or a fugitive slave--ac...
15. CHAPTER XV.--THE RETURN HOME.Oh! had that proud woman, the parent of the young mother, been present in that close chamber, where lay fainting the “flower of her flock,” her heartless pride must have receive...
2. CHAPTER II.--THE DREADFUL SECRET.An experienced physician had been summoned, and at length the fit was so far mastered by the application of remedies and restoratives, that the semblance of death no longer rema...
6. CHAPTER VI.--THE COVETED HEART BESTOWED.As soon as Wilton’s lawyers had executed and completed all the preliminaries necessary to reinstate him in the possession of that property from which some years back he had been...
4. CHAPTER IV.--THE ASSAULT AND THE RESCUE._Con._ Not till you hear of your good fortune, my dear. You have attracted, in one moment, what hundreds of your sex have twinkled their eyes for whole years in vain--my notice....
14. CHAPTER XIV.--REVENGE.He pressed the palms of his hands together and looked once more up and down the corridor, and then, gently opening Flora’s chamber door, he glided within, closed it after him, a...
12. CHAPTER XII.--LESTER VANE AND HELEN.Lotte Clinton, when she beheld a young man dressed in the height of fashion at her room-door, although startled by the sudden fright exhibited by Helen Grahame, felt assured tha...