Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
IT was a glowing, sultry day in the glorious month of June. In the drawing-room of Cortley Hall every window was thrown wide open to admit the breeze, which scarcely stirred the muslin curtains, or moved one leaf of the delicate maiden-hair fern which drooped from a fancy bask...
IT was a glowing, sultry day in the glorious month of June. In the drawing-room of Cortley Hall every window was thrown wide open to admit the breeze, which scarcely stirred the...
2. CHAPTER II.VERY merrily passed that Tuesday evening at Cortley Hall. Neighbours "dropped in" to tea, Sophia arrived from London, her luggage swelled to an unreasonable size by divers boxes...
3. CHAPTER III."WHAT am I to do—what on earth am I to do!" exclaimed Wilfred. "Oh! That I had never seen this detestable deed!" And he spurned the parchment with his foot. "What ought I to do?...
4. CHAPTER IV.CALM and beautiful was the aspect of nature in the stillness of that summer night. The silence was scarcely broken by the softly-warbled song of the nightingale, which poured it...
5. CHAPTER V.WILFRED MARSDEN awoke with his frame chilled and stiffened, and a weight like lead at his heart. Before full consciousness returned, he had a sense that something dreadful had h...
6. CHAPTER VI.MINA and Wilfred Marsden walked for some minutes together in silence; she hoping that her brother would commence conversation, he not knowing what to say. Wilfred had always bee...
7. CHAPTER VII.THE night was very different from what the preceding one had been. The day, which had begun in sunny smiles, had changed to rain at noon, and now it had closed in storm. Wilfred...
8. CHAPTER VIII.And the tall young squire, who had been standing surveying the most magnificent pile of white sugar, silver leaves, and orange-blossom that had ever appeared in that part of the...
9. CHAPTER IX."I'M sure that it is a perfect mystery to me what could have induced him to leave all the party here, to wander about in the rain and end by throwing himself into the river!" ex...
10. CHAPTER X."Yes; favours, flowers, feasting, and fun, all after the most approved fashion," replied Rosa. "I have just sent off a note, by Mina's desire, to ask the Miss Allfreys to be her...