Category: Historical Novels
NEARLY ninety years ago, there was among the hills and wolds of the West Riding of Yorkshire a lovely village called Annis. It had grown slowly around the lords of the manor of Annis and consisted at the beginning of the nineteenth century of men and women whose time was emplo...
THE three ladies had reached the open door in time to watch Lady Jane leave her carriage, a movement not easy to describe, for it was the result of an action practiced from earl...
6. CHAPTER VI--FASHION AND FAMINEIT is not necessary for me to describe the formal introduction of Katherine to London society. A large number of my readers may have a personal experience of that uncertain step...
10. CHAPTER X--THE GREAT BILL PASSESALTHOUGH Dick pretended an utter disbelief in Grey’s prophecy, it really came true; and the Reform Bill passed the House of Lords on the last day of May. Then the Annis family w...
7. CHAPTER VII--IN THE FOURTH WATCHLADY LEYLAND had ordered breakfast at ten o’clock and at that hour her guests were ready for it. Mistress Temple and Katherine showed no signs of weariness, but Lord Ley-land lo...
9. CHAPTER IX--LOVERS QUARREL AND THE SQUIRE MAKES A SPEECHWHEN Dick left his father he hardly knew what to do with himself. He was not prepared to speak to his mother, nor did he think it quite honorable to do so, until he had informed...
8. CHAPTER VIII--LOVE’S TENDER PHANTASYA MAN in love sees miracles, as well as expects them. Outsiders are apt to think him an absurd creature, he himself knows that he is seeking the only love that can complete and...
4. CHAPTER IV--LONDON AND AUNT JOSEPHAKATHERINE’S letters bore little fruit. Lady Brierley sent fifty pounds to buy food, but said “she was going to Bourmouth for the spring months, being unable to bear the winds of...
13. CHAPTER XIII--MARRIAGE BELLS AND GOOD-BY TO ANNISIMMEDIATELY after this event preparations for Katherine’s marriage were revived with eager haste and diligence, and the ceremony was celebrated in Annis Parish Church. She went...
2. CHAPTER II--THE PROSPECT OF LONDON LIFEIT is during the hungry years of the thirties and forties of the nineteenth century that the great body of Englishmen and Englishwomen reveal themselves most nobly and clearly i...
12. CHAPTER XII--THE SQUIRE MAKES GOODTHE summer went quickly away, but during it the whole life of Annis Hall and Annis Village changed. The orderly, beautiful home was tossed up by constant visitors, either on bus...
11. CHAPTER XI--AUNT JOSEPHA INTERFERESLIFE is full of issues. Nothing happens just as we expect or prepare for it, and when the squire returned home late in the afternoon, weary but full of enthusiasm, he was yet ig...
3. CHAPTER III--THE REALIZATION OF TROUBLETHE next morning Katherine came to her mother full of enthusiasm. She had some letters in her hand and she said: “I have written these letters all alike, mother, and they are re...
1. CHAPTER I--THE SQUIRE OF ANNISNEARLY ninety years ago, there was among the hills and wolds of the West Riding of Yorkshire a lovely village called Annis. It had grown slowly around the lords of the manor of...
14. CHAPTER XIV--A RECALLAFTER this event I never saw Squire Antony Annis any more. Within a week, I had left the place, and I was not there again until the year A. D. 1884, a period of fifty-one years....