Category: Novels
It was not so long a journey as that he had taken to Liverpool with the curate, but how different it was! Then he had his home to return to; he had set forth curious indeed and interested, with a hope of discovering something about himself, but always with the idea of going ba...
It was not so long a journey as that he had taken to Liverpool with the curate, but how different it was! Then he had his home to return to; he had set forth curious indeed and...
2. CHAPTER II.He had eaten, for he was hungry, and ham and bread and butter are not to be despised when nothing better is to be had. Even, which was curious to his state of mind, he had eaten...
3. CHAPTER III.John did not leave his new friends till late, and when he did so he felt quite well, nay, more than well, in a state of elation and satisfaction with himself and all the world....
4. CHAPTER IV.‘I know you were with John. And I have no doubt you had a great deal to say to him. So far as I know him, he would not have much to say to you.’
5. CHAPTER V.Susie knew her way about, and where to go and what to see. She was not disturbed by the noise and clangour of what she called ‘The Underground,’ a mode of conveyance which at fi...
6. CHAPTER VI.It was the career he had himself chosen, the very same career about which there had been so many consultations at home in the old times. This was how he described to himself a p...
7. CHAPTER VII.After this there ensues a gap in John’s life:--no real gap, indeed, but a steady, quiet continuance of work and training of which the record might be interesting enough to those...
8. CHAPTER VIII.John walked home to his lodging full of many thoughts. It cannot be unpleasant to anyone to find himself in possession of something unexpected, which can be called even a little...
9. CHAPTER IX.It was with some difficulty that John persuaded his old landlady to take in his unfortunate _protégé_. But the woman had a great respect for the young man who had done so well,...
10. CHAPTER X.The speaker was the Rev. Percy Spencer, as completely arrayed a curate as could be found in all the parishes of England. John sprang up from his seat, and contemplated him with...
11. CHAPTER XI.John was not convinced, though he was a little discouraged, by Mrs. Egerton’s speech. To say that none of his people _belonged_ there when the two, the only two who had trained...
12. CHAPTER XII.Susie arrived a few days later, having left John time, as she believed, to resume his relations with his old friends, and get himself received upon such foundations as were prac...
13. CHAPTER XIII.‘Most subjects in earth and heaven.’ He paused a little, and then resumed with embarrassment. ‘If you mean about Elly, Aunt Mary--I--I didn’t. That’s the fact. His sister was th...
14. CHAPTER XIV.John had gone out for no particular reason. He had nothing to do, which was unusual to him, and his mind was perturbed and restless. He was altogether out of _son assiette_, as...
15. CHAPTER XV.‘Never, never, never!’ cried Mrs. Egerton. She was red with excitement and wrath. Her matronly presence, generally so dignified and friendly and calm, grew into that of an angry...
16. CHAPTER XVI.She did not quite know what to make of it all. First there was John arriving like a whirlwind, rushing upstairs to pack up his things, telling her he was going away at once, wit...
17. CHAPTER XVII.John’s feelings as he returned to town were very different indeed from those with which he had left London. Everything then was enveloped in a vague pleasure of expectation, a d...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.The two men came in, the first with a somewhat downcast shamefaced air, the other with the impassiveness of the man who cannot be less thought of than he is, and who has neither...