Great Britain -- Fiction
Amongst the fens of Lincolnshire—in the dreariest portion of that miserable county, where all is barren and, if not unprofitable, at least uninteresting—stood, at the period this history commences, an old-fashioned, dingy-looking mansion, tenanted by Sir Ernest Ivraine, the mi...
Amongst the fens of Lincolnshire—in the dreariest portion of that miserable county, where all is barren and, if not unprofitable, at least uninteresting—stood, at the period thi...
2. CHAPTER II.Henry Ivraine had scarcely concluded, when the door of the apartment was flung violently open, giving admittance to the tall gaunt baronet, the “Miser Sir Ernest,” as he was uni...
3. CHAPTER III.One chilly day in that most depressing of all English months, November, Mr. Merapie’s principal clerk stood in a manner at once easy and graceful before the fire in the outer of...
4. CHAPTER IV.From London to Loch Lomond! Kind reader, do not call the transition a leap. In the alphabet it is not a step; in this book it merely involves the turning over one page and comme...
5. CHAPTER V.Death and poverty—perpetual travellers, who seem to take pleasure in dogging each other’s footsteps from house to house—had, as too frequently proves the case, entered the abode...
6. CHAPTER VI.Had Mrs. Frazer been thoroughly aware of to whom and to what she was going, perhaps she might have delayed some considerable period weighing the pro’s and con’s, on both sides,...
7. CHAPTER VII.Nothing more undemonstrative can possibly be conceived than the meeting betwixt Mr. John Merapie and his sister, Mrs. Frazer. With even less appearance of his ever having done s...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Acting upon the suggestion his invaluable clerk had thrown out, Mr. Merapie inquired of Mina whether she would let Miss Caldera teach her at home, and receiving, after some hesi...
9. CHAPTER IX.Mr. John Merapie never got any coat-of-arms, or crest, or motto, or anything from the Herald’s office, because he averred “he hated humbug;” but in lieu of the above aristocrati...
10. CHAPTER X.There are some persons, living in agreeable town or country localities, who contend that “place” has nought to do with happiness, just as others who have never felt the want of...
11. CHAPTER XI.But as the mariner, tossing on the bosom of the ever-restless, always treacherous, ocean, clings with might and main to the quivering mast, though aloft storms surround, and tem...
12. CHAPTER XII.Ernest Ivraine was just beginning to look with no ordinary impatience for an answer to his latest Indian despatch, when his father gave a sort of finishing stroke to the unusual...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Malcolm Frazer was quite correct in his supposition that Miss Caldera was the cause of the sage advice Mina had been pleased to give him; and had his own reason not told him the...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Three weeks after the occurrences narrated in the last chapter, Ernest Ivraine, his right arm in a sling and his face paler and thinner than ever, ascended the broad staircase o...
15. CHAPTER XV.Malcolm Frazer was quite correct when he said his uncle would ask Mr. Ivraine to make his house his home till he was able to journey back to the fens; for, under a rather unprom...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Time, which hath a way of enlarging our circle of new acquaintances, and of curtailing, by various painful methods, the number of those whom the soul in its tenderness loves to...