Category: Novels
Left to themselves, Millefleurs and Beaufort stood opposite to each other for a moment with some embarrassment. To have anything to do with a quarrel is always painful for the third person; and it was so entirely unexpected, out of the way of all his habits, that Beaufort felt...
After this there ensued a brief pause in the history of the family in all its branches: it was a pause ominous, significant--like the momentary hush before a storm, or the torre...
17. CHAPTER XLVIII.Thus between threats and promises, and patience and obstinacy, it came gradually to pass that Lord Lindores had to yield. He made that winter a very unhappy one to his family--a...
16. CHAPTER XLVII.The profoundest of the many wounds inflicted upon Lord Lindores, at this terrible period of his life, was that which he thus received at the hands of Rintoul: it was so altogeth...
4. CHAPTER XXXV."Sir," said Rolls, "you're too sensible a man not to know that the last thing a lad is likely to do is what's reasonable, especially when he's in that flurry, and just furious a...
5. CHAPTER XXXVI.The day after John's incarceration was the funeral day at Tinto. The whole country was moved by this great ceremonial. The funeral was to be more magnificent than ever funeral h...
14. CHAPTER XLV.Rolls in the county jail, sent hither on his own confession, was in a very different position from John Erskine, waiting examination there. He was locked up without ceremony in...
6. CHAPTER XXXVII.It is a strange experience for a man whose personal freedom has never been restrained to find himself in prison. The excitement and amazement of the first day made it something...
9. CHAPTER XL."DEAR MR ERSKINE,--I do not know what words to use to tell you how pained and distressed we are--I speak for my mother as well as myself--to find that nothing has been done to r...
2. CHAPTER XXXIII.Rolls went up-stairs and dressed himself in his best--his "blacks," which he kept for going to funerals and other solemnities--not the dress in which he waited at table and did...
13. CHAPTER XLIV.John Erskine returned to Dalrulzian alone after this wonderful morning's work. He could scarcely believe that he was free to walk where he pleased,--to do what he liked. Four da...
7. CHAPTER XXXVIII.Rintoul had bad nights, and could not sleep. He had been in such constant movement that day that he was fatigued, and had hoped for rest; but after tossing on his uneasy bed, he...
1. CHAPTER XXXII.Left to themselves, Millefleurs and Beaufort stood opposite to each other for a moment with some embarrassment. To have anything to do with a quarrel is always painful for the t...
18. CHAPTER XLIX.When a pair of lovers are finally delivered from all those terrible obstacles that fret the current of true love, and are at last married and settled, what more is there to be s...
11. CHAPTER XLII.No morning ever broke which brought more exciting expectations than the morning of the 25th September in the various houses in which our history lies. Of the dozen people whose...
8. CHAPTER XXXIX.Rolls disappeared on the evening of the day on which he had that long consultation with Mr Monypenny. He did not return to Dalrulzian that night. Marget, with many blushes and n...
12. CHAPTER XLIII.John Erskine had received Edith's letter that morning in his prison. His spirits were at a very low ebb when it was put into his hand. Four days' confinement had taken the coura...
3. CHAPTER XXXIV.Beaufort drove home on that eventful afternoon by himself. He had left his friend in the county jail, in a state in which surprise was still perhaps the predominant feeling. Joh...
10. CHAPTER XLI.Carry drove away from Lindores in the afternoon sunshine, leaning back in her corner languidly watching the slanting light upon the autumnal trees, and the haze in which the dis...