Category: Novels
"The next day, my friend bade us adieu. Had he expressed the least wish to that effect, I would have accompanied him to the South--but he did not, and we parted, never to meet again. He died abroad, and Charlotte became the inheritor of his large fortune. Her grief for the los...
"As I approached the cottage door, my attention was arrested by a low, mournful voice, singing in sad and subdued tones, a ditty which seemed the spontaneous outpouring of a wou...
11. letter I still held in my hand. "Why that is rather a temptation to a"I don't at all doubt your capabilities, Simpson. But you see, this is a thing I really can only do for myself. The young lady would not like her letter to be made public."
12. CHAPTER XI.Honest Dan Simpson insisted on being my companion for the first stage. "Just," said he, "to take care of me, and see how I got along." I could gladly have dispensed with his com...
7. CHAPTER VII.I was so elated with the unexpected result of my meeting with Dinah North, that it was not until I missed the fairy figure of my sweet cousin at the supper-table, that my mind r...
6. CHAPTER VI.An hour had scarcely elapsed, when I received a message from Miss Moncton, requesting my presence in the drawing-room, where I found her engaged in an earnest conversation with...
1. CHAPTER I."The next day, my friend bade us adieu. Had he expressed the least wish to that effect, I would have accompanied him to the South--but he did not, and we parted, never to meet a...
9. CHAPTER IX.The night was far advanced when I recovered my senses. The room I occupied was large and spacious; the bed on which I was lying such as wealth supplies to her most luxurious chi...
4. CHAPTER IV.A few weeks' residence found me quite at home at the Hall. My new-found relatives treated me with the affectionate familiarity which exists between old and long-tried friends. I...
3. CHAPTER III.It was a fine, warm, balmy evening in May--green delicious May. With what delight I gazed abroad upon the face of Nature. Every scene was new to me, and awakened feelings of cur...
15. CHAPTER XIV.Her eyes, always beautiful, gleamed with an unnatural brilliancy; and her pure, pale complexion, at times was flushed with a hectic glow, which, contrasting with the dazzling wh...
8. CHAPTER VIII.On calmly reviewing the conversation of the past night, I determined to walk over to Elm Grove, and confide my situation to Mrs. Hepburn, who, as a friend of my mother's, might...
13. CHAPTER XII."It is an ill wind, they say, Geoffrey Moncton, which blows no good to any one. Had the son of Sir Alexander Moncton lived, you would have retained your original insignificance....
5. CHAPTER V.The next morning I received from Margaretta, a circumstantial detail of what had passed between Alice and her on the previous evening. "After I undressed and got her to bed, she...
14. CHAPTER XIII.Robert Moncton had lain in a stupor for the last hour. The surgeon whom George had brought with him from the village, after carefully examining the wound, to my surprise, declar...
10. CHAPTER X.Day was waning into night, when I again unclosed my eyes. A sober calm had succeeded the burning agitation of the previous hours. I was no longer a lover--or at least the lover...