The Pillars of the House; Or, Under Wode, Under Rode, Vol. 2 (of 2)

The town-hall at Ewmouth was a good fifteenth-century building. The common herd sat on chairs and gazed at the speakers behind the table on the dais. There were the Lord Lieuten...

It had come very suddenly. Spa had been given up in favour of Brighton; and there what had seemed a slight casual ailment had been followed by a recurrence of the disease, and a...

Even while Lance and Clement were in discussion, Charles Audley had paddled up the river, and mooring his little craft at the landing-place, had taken the path to the garden.

So it was that the Reverend Edward Clement Underwood became Vicar of Vale Leston Abbas; and as Geraldine observed, when she saw his whole worldly possessions waiting for the omn...

'If you might, would you now Retrace your way, Wander through stormy wilds, Faint and astray? Night's gloomy watches fled, Morning all beaming red, Hopes smiles around us shed,...

Captain Harewood was gone. There was a good deal of truth in Wilmet's plea that much pain might have been saved if she had been allowed to abide by her first answer; but by this...

'Poor caterpillars, with our web broken, trying to gather it close round us,' said Geraldine, with a sort of playful melancholy, when old Squire Underwood's little table was pro...

'The heart which like a staff was one, For mine to lean and rest upon, The strongest on the longest day, With steadfast love, is caught away, And yet my days go on, go on.' _E....

'And while the wings of fancy still are free, And I can view this mimic show of thee, Time has but half succeeded in his theft-- Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left.' _...

Geraldine was yet to discover how peaceful and happy was her life. For a year and a half, the words at the head of our chapter--whatever they may mean--had been running in her h...

'Cushions and cloth an' books, takin' the old church right roun', Surplice, shovel, and broom, they would na ha' fetch'd half-a-crown, Commandments to boot. They was the only go...

'It is called--I forget--_à la_ something which sounded Like alicampane, but in truth I'm confounded, What with fillets of roses and fillets of veal, Things _garni_ with lace an...

Lance did not appear on the evening before the picnic, and announced by letter, the next morning, that he could not get away. Felix regretted not having as usual changed places...

Care, exertion, and self-denial, were indeed still needful; but the two latter were perhaps ingredients of happiness, and care would not have been avoided if the Underwood view...

'Waketh a vision, and a voice within her Sweeter than dreams and dearer than complaint-- Is it a man thou lovest, and a sinner? No; but a soul, O woman! and a saint.' _Frederick...

'"And neither toil nor time could mar Those features, so I saw the last Of Waring." "You! O never star Was lost here, but it rose afar. Look east, where old new thousands are."'...

'Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. * * * * * * * * * And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs. * * * * * * * * * With wanton heed, and gidd...

One morning, after a private interview with Alda, Mr. Underwood entered the drawing-room, hilariously announcing that Alda was a lucky girl this time, for now she had a man in n...

'Oft with anxious straining eyes We watch the coming of some joy long hoped for; And now 'tis near. But at its side a dark And stealthy thing, that we should fly like death Did...

'It is all very well for you. I daresay the man-kind have a room in some trim, or don't know it if they have not; but to fall promiscuously on the female sect, with their little...

'Do you remember,' wrote Cherry, 'poor Fernan's old rival in the Life Guards, Sir Adrian Vanderkist? I have seen him! He descended upon us at luncheon-time in all his glory; and...

They had reached the house, and Stella left them in the hall, saying she would find Felix. Fulbert would have followed her, but was detained by the captain, with the words, 'She...

'They had been much together; and one for ever bears A name upon the loyal heart, and in the daily prayers; The other but remembers, when the pleasant hours are past, That somet...

'He smiled, "Shall I complain if joy go by With summer days and winter follow it? If He who gave the gladness I have known, Shall take it from me, shall I make my moan? Nay, for...

By the time Felix could obey Marilda's missive, and entered Cherry's sitting-room, she had come to such a state of mind, that not even his pale, fixed, mournful face was needed...

Angela's conversion, as her friends did not scruple to term it, had this happy effect at least of extinguishing her passion (if so it might be called) for Charles Audley. It was...

'Hast thou forgot the day When my father found thee first in places far away? Many flocks were on the hills, but thou wast owned by none.' _Wordsworth's 'Pet Lamb.'_

XXIV. FAMILY GHOOLS XXV. DON GIOVANNI XXVI. TRANSMUTATION XXVII. DON OR MYNHEER XXVIII. STARS GRATIS XXIX. BRYNHILD XXX. THE SCULPTOR XXXI. THE BARBE BLONDE XXXII. THE NID D'AVI...