The Prodigals and Their Inheritance; Complete

This interview did not calm the nerves of the agitated girl or bring her soothing or sleep. It was almost morning before the calm of exhaustion came, hushing the thoughts in her...

“It was unnecessary, quite unnecessary. What has he to do with dog-carts or any luxury? He should have been left to find his way as best he could. It is not many dog-carts he wi...

The sound of the brougham rolling along down the avenue, and of the closing of the great door upon the departing guest, came to Winifred, as she sat alone, with a dreary sound....

In family troubles such as that which we have indicated, it is generally a woman who is the chief sufferer. She stands between the conflicting parties, and, whether she is mothe...

Edward Langton had never meant to forsake his love. He intended no more to give her up because she did not agree with him, because he thought her mistaken, or even because she h...

Miss Farrell did not add to her pupil’s trouble. When she heard the state of affairs, she gave up with noble magnanimity her intention of going away. “You must not ask me to mee...

A threatened life is said to last long. Winifred Chester lived in great alarm and misery for a week or two, watching every movement and every look of her father, expecting almos...

Mr. Babington remained in the house, or at least returned to it constantly, passing most of his time there till the funeral was over; after which he read the will to the little...

An address is not everything: there must be the will and the power to write, there must be the letter produced, and the address obtained. The very first step was hard. To go up...

Winifred had never fainted before in her life, and it made a great commotion in the house. Hopkins, without a word to any one, sent off for Dr. Langton, and half the maids in th...

Edward came out to meet her, and took her hand and drew it through his arm. He led her in tenderly, holding that hand in his, without a vestige of the reserve and restraint in w...

George arrived by the next mail. He did not travel all night, but came in the evening, driving up the avenue with a good deal of noise and commotion, with two flys from the stat...

It was scarcely in nature that the appearance of her betrothed, coming so suddenly in the midst of her thoughts, should be disagreeable to Winifred, but it was an embarrassment...

This was in the morning, and nothing further happened until the afternoon. Winifred, though she was tremulous with weakness, had her pony carriage brought round, and went out, t...

“Why don’t you come to the house and have your talk out? She has got her feet wet, and if she does not look sharp, we shall all be caught in the rain--a doctor should know bette...

Winifred, it will be divined, was not without affairs of her own, which were indeed kept in the background by the more urgent complications of her family life, but yet were alwa...

There is, among the members of many families, a frank familiarity which dispenses with all those forms which keep life on a level of courtesy with persons not related to each ot...

Miss Farrell came home next day from her visit. She was a little old lady of the period when people became old early, and assumed the dress and the habits of age before it was a...

They were little, and he was tall; they were slight of form, and he was massive and big--a vigorous man with a great “wind of going” about him, like one who could push through e...

Enough had been done and said that night. They remained together for some time in the drawing-room, having the outside aspect of a family party, but separated, as indeed family...

Winifred scarcely slept all that night. She had enough to think of. Her entire life hung in the balance. And, indeed, that was not all, for there remained the doubtful possibili...