Category: Novels
Words, of course, in themselves good and well-chosen, and embodying a wish which all who love their neighbour should feel and communicate;--God in his mercy grant there may be very many who can respond to such a salutation hopefully; for in this Valley of the Shadow of Death t...
“Oh, Percy, have you heard the news?” inquired Hugh, eagerly, some five weeks after his arrival at Tickletown; and as he spoke, he began dancing and clinging round his brother i...
3. CHAPTER III.--A ROMANTIC ADVENTURE.The Rosebud of Ashburn possessed a female friend. Caroline Selby was the daughter of Sir Thomas Crawley’s agent. Sir Thomas Crawley was the rich man of the neighbourhood, lord o...
5. CHAPTER V.--A FAST SPECIMEN OF “YOUNG ENGLAND.The railroad station at Flatville was a large and central one, two or three branches converging at that point and joining the main line. A train from London was due before that...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--NORMAN’S REVENGE.When the devil suggests some pleasant but wrong scheme to frail humanity, his dupes generally find him a most amiable and efficient patron at the beginning of the enterprise, ho...
15. CHAPTER XV.--SETTLES THREE OF THE DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.Sir Thomas Crawley had sneaked and shuffled through life, and, by doing so with a degree of talent which if exerted in a righteous cause might have gained him the love and respe...
10. CHAPTER X.--THE TRIBUNAL OF JUSTICE.It cannot be a pleasant thing to be going to be hanged--however thoroughly you may be aware that you deserve it--however clearly you may perceive that it will be for the good of...
7. CHAPTER VII.--TEMPTATION.“Come here, Colville. How is your cat this morning?” inquired Norman, as Hugh approached, a good deal puzzled, and rather alarmed, at his summons, by reason of the fact that whe...
2. CHAPTER II.--THE BROTHERS.“Percy, I _have_ been quiet _so_ long, and you say I must not stand upon my head, because it disturbs mamma; do come out and let us ride the pony by turns,” implored little Hugh...
4. CHAPTER IV.--SHUFFLING, DEALING, AND TURNING UP A KNAVE AND A TRUMP.The servant to whom the above direction was given, carried the card to which it referred to his master, who, lifting it from the silver waiter on which it was presented, read th...
12. CHAPTER XII.--THE ROSEBUD SKETCHES FROM MEMORY.Reader! dear reader! nay, on the chance of your being a young lady, and, therefore, necessarily charming, we will go the whole length of the adjective, and say at once, dearest...
14. CHAPTER XIV.--CONTAINS MUCH DOCTOR’S STUFF, AND OTHER RUBBISH.Ernest was true to his word--all that spring and summer he worked at his sermons and his parish, like an ecclesiastical galley-slave, till the volume was finished, and all the p...
13. CHAPTER XIII.--AN ‘ELEGANT EXTRACT’ FROM BLAIR’s SERMONS.An unfortunate necessity existing to compress this our veracious history of “the Fortunes of the Colville Family” within the limits of one small volume, a great many incidents o...
11. CHAPTER XI.--LOSS AND GAIN.Sir Thomas Crawley paced up and down his handsome library, a prey to anxiety!--much depended on the turn events might take over which he had no control, but which yet must exerc...
9. CHAPTER IX.--THE DISCOVERY.Ernest Carrington sat in the retirement of his little study, and gave himself up to thought. His scholastic labours were over for the day, and with a head too tired for mental o...
1. CHAPTER I.--THE TWO PICTURES.Words, of course, in themselves good and well-chosen, and embodying a wish which all who love their neighbour should feel and communicate;--God in his mercy grant there may be v...
16. CHAPTER XVI.--AND LAST.--THE MORAL DRAWN VERY MILD!Once again it was Christmas-day. At Ashburn Priory the plum-pudding was a “great fact;” Hugh Colville said so, and he ought to have known, for he ate enough, not to say too much...