Category: Romance

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

My dear Niece,-The receipt of your letter, dated ‘Lucerne,’ but bearing the post-mark of Geneva, has at last relieved my mind from the weight of anxiety which was oppressing it. Thank Heaven you are safe and well, and bear your suffering with Christian resignation. In a little...

Chapters

6. CHAPTER XXVII--THE SIREN.

Bradley’s first impulse, on quitting Boulogne, was to hasten at once on to Italy, seek out Alma, and tell her all that had occurred; but that impulse was no sooner felt than it...

9. CHAPTER XXX--IN PARIS

Professor Mapleleafe speedily saw that to oppose his sister would be inopportune--might perhaps even cause her decline and death. He determined’ therefore to humour her, and to...

7. CHAPTER XXVIII--THE ETERNAL CITY

As the days passed, Bradley found his state of suspense and anxiety intolerable. Day after day he had hoped to hear from Alma, until at length disappointment culminated in despair.

3. CHAPTER XXIV--GLIMPSES OF THE UNSEEN.

While the woman he had so cruelly deceived and wronged was wandering from city to city, and trying in vain to find rest and consolation, Ambrose Bradley remained at the post whe...

11. CHAPTER XXXII.--ANOTHER OLD LETTER.

‘I AM writing these lines in my bedroom in the house of the Widow Gran, in the village of Ober-Ammergau. They are the last you will receive from me for a long time; perhaps the...

2. CHAPTER XXIII--ALMA’S WANDERINGS

Bradley’s letter was fowarded from Lucerne after some little delay, and reached Miss Craik at Brieg, just as she was preparing to proceed by private conveyance to Domo d’Ossola....

4. CHAPTER XXV--A CATASTROPHE

The few days following the one on which the spiritualistic _séance_ was held were passed by Bradley in a sort of dream. The more he thought of what he had heard and seen, the mo...

5. CHAPTER XXVI--THE LAST LOOK.

It would have been difficult to analyse accurately the emotions which filled the bosom of Ambrose Bradley, as he stood and looked upon the dead face of the woman who, according...

10. CHAPTER XXXI.--AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

It was the close of a bright sunshiny day in the spring of 18--. The sun was setting crimson on the lonely peak of the Zugspitz in the heart of the Bavarian Highlands, and the s...

1. CHAPTER XXII--FROM THE POST-BAG.

My dear Niece,-The receipt of your letter, dated ‘Lucerne,’ but bearing the post-mark of Geneva, has at last relieved my mind from the weight of anxiety which was oppressing it....

8. CHAPTER XXIX.--THE NAMELESS GRAVE.

It seemed a dream still, but a horrible sunless dream, all that followed; and in after years Ambrose Bradley never remembered it without a thrill of horror, finding it ever impo...