Category: Romance

The New Abelard: A Romance, Volume 1 (of 3)

On a windy night in the month of May, the full moon was flashing from cloud to cloud, each so small that it began to melt instantaneously beneath her hurried breath; and, in the fulness of the troubled light that she was shedding, the bright tongues of the sea were creeping up...

Chapters

10. CHAPTER X.--FROM THE POST-BAG.

Dearest Alma,--I came here from Rouen this day week, and have more than once sat down to write to you; but my heart was too full, and the words would not come, until to-day. Sin...

5. CHAPTER V.--‘MRS. MONTMORENCY.

The brougham passed rapidly up Wellington Street into Long Acre, thence into Oxford Street, passing westward till it came to Regent Circus, then it was driven up Portland Place...

4. CHAPTER IV.--WORLDLY COUNSEL.

I am not at all surprised at what you have told me,’ said Cholmondeley, sipping his coffee and smoking his cigar. ‘I knew that it _must_ come sooner or later. Your position in t...

8. CHAPTER VIII.--MYSTIFICATIONS.

Ambrose Bradley came back from London a miserable man. Alighting late in the evening at the nearest railway station, nearly ten miles distant, he left his bag to be sent on by t...

7. CHAPTER VII.--A SIDE CURRENT.

Loitering slowly onward from stile to stile, from field to field, and from pasture to pasture, the two ladies at last reached a country road leading right through the heart of t...

2. CHAPTER II.--OLD LETTERS.

Right Reverend Sir,--We, the undersigned, churchwardens and parishioners of the Church of St. Mary Flagellant, in the parish of Fensea and diocese of Dells, feel it our duty to...

1. CHAPTER I.--THE TWO.

On a windy night in the month of May, the full moon was flashing from cloud to cloud, each so small that it began to melt instantaneously beneath her hurried breath; and, in the...

3. CHAPTER III.--THE BISHOP.

On the morning of June 2 the Rev. Ambrose Bradley left Fensea by the early market train, and arrived at Darkdale just in time for his interview with the Bishop of his diocese.

9. CHAPTER IX.--FAREWELL TO FENSEA.

_I am sick of time serving. I was borne in the land of Mother-Nakedness; she who bare me was a true woman, and my father was sworn vassal to King Candour, ere he died of a sunst...

6. CHAPTER VI.--ALMA.

On the morning that the Rev. Ambrose Bradley, Vicar of Fensea, had his memorable interview with the Bishop of Darkdale and Dells, Miss Alma Craik, of the Larches, walked on the...