Category: Novels
This was one of the first things he remembered. In the confused recollections of that early age, he seemed to have been always hearing it: said between his mother and his sister, afterwards between his grandparents, even by strangers one to another, always, ‘Don’t say anything...
This was one of the first things he remembered. In the confused recollections of that early age, he seemed to have been always hearing it: said between his mother and his sister...
2. CHAPTER II.IT was not very long after this, but how long his memory could not clearly make out, when Johnnie was sent to the country to his grandfather and grandmother, who lived in a vill...
3. CHAPTER III.They were all seated one evening in the parlour round the fire. The house of the Sandfords was like many other old-fashioned middle-class houses. The dining-room was the princip...
4. CHAPTER IV.This conversation was interrupted by a knock at the door, which was evidently a very welcome sound to the old people, who displayed even more than their usual cordiality when th...
5. CHAPTER V.The curate and his pupil trudged along in the dark, guided by the lantern which threw a gleam along the road and showed them the irregularities in it, which indeed they both kne...
6. CHAPTER VI.Mrs. Sandford got up very early next morning, some time before it was daylight. She had scarcely slept all night. As quiet as a little ghost, not to wake her husband, she had st...
7. CHAPTER VII.This was what Elly Spencer said as she put her books together in Mr. Cattley’s study on a day in January not long before that on which the holidays, if they had been only holida...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Mrs. Sandford had not been well ever since that morning expedition of hers. There was nothing the matter with her, she said, oh, nothing. She was only a little tired; perhaps sh...
9. CHAPTER IX.John was allowed to sit in the parlour now that he was almost a man, after the old people had gone to bed. His own room was small, and it had been agreed upon as a reasonable th...
10. CHAPTER X.When John heard his grandfather breathe that sigh of helplessness which resolved itself into a desire for Emily--if the purposeless exclamation ‘if Emily were here!’ could be co...
11. CHAPTER XI.Mrs. Sandford did not rise from her bed again. She disappeared into that mystery of the death-chamber, in which the fits of suffering that mark the different steps of progress t...
12. CHAPTER XII.She came into the parlour first, where she sat down close to the fire. She shivered as she looked round, Mr. Sandford and John both standing behind looking at her. There was ind...
13. CHAPTER XIII.‘I want to know who this woman is,’ said Mrs. Egerton. ‘She seems to take the control of everything. They tell me that poor Mr. Sandford does not venture to call his soul his ow...
14. CHAPTER XIV.This was so entirely unexpected after she had given up all thought of it. She decided within herself in a moment that the curate was right when he said that the stranger looked...
15. CHAPTER XV.John was not, perhaps, very much pleased with himself as he came home after seeing Emily away. As soon as he said that to her, his heart swung back like a pendulum, and he asked...
16. CHAPTER XVI.John reflected as he walked back to his lodging on the small matters on which great effects sometimes hang. This wretched fellow--hoping to get something out of a poor woman who...
17. CHAPTER XVII.They drove back together alone without a word, sitting close together, not looking at each other--saying nothing. A few neighbours, out of ‘respect,’ had attended old Mr. Sandfo...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.It was all over--his resistance and his notion of being able to resist, his hopes and all the foundation for them, his fond dreams and thoughts (so fallacious and so foolish) of...