Category: Novels
Alice Severn was very innocent and very young,--just over sixteen,--a child to all intents and purposes,--as everybody thought around her. Old Welby, who had taken to meddling in the padrona’s affairs, with that regard which the friends of a woman who is alone feel themselves...
When Laurie Renton arrived in town, he went with the story of his family’s fortune and his own, as was natural, to the padrona, who had now a double interest in the tale. She ha...
17. CHAPTER XVII.The day of Hillyard’s visit was full of trial and excitement to Mary. To live in a household where everything is talked of freely, with the consciousness of having various matte...
15. CHAPTER XV.On the next morning Ben went away without a word, no repentance of his intention or lingering desire to postpone it having apparently crossed his mind. He took leave of his moth...
13. CHAPTER XIII.It was Hillyard’s behaviour at this meal which gained him the regard of the various members of the Renton family. He took such pains to attend to the strangers, and give to the...
14. CHAPTER XIV.If I do not enter very particularly into the family arrangements which were made after this settlement, it is because, in the circumstances, so much detail is unnecessary. Had B...
8. CHAPTER VIII.It was on the 15th of September that Ben came home. The day appointed for reading the will was a week later, and none of the others had arrived when Ben’s letter came announcing...
5. CHAPTER V.The readers of this history must be prepared to pass over an interval of something less than seven years from the end of the last chapter. I allow that it is a most undesirable...
9. CHAPTER IX.Rising full of anxious thoughts of the excitement which must have taken possession of Ben from the revelations of the night, Mary was much taken aback to meet her cousin, in, to...
2. CHAPTER II.There are moments in life which are so sweet as to light up whole weeks of gloom; and there are moments so dreadful as to make the unfortunate actors in them tremble at the reco...
12. CHAPTER XII.When the Rentons were all seated together in the drawing-room after dinner, doing their best to get through the Sunday evening, a note was brought to Mrs. Renton, to the amazeme...
7. CHAPTER VII.About a week after the arrival of the visitors from The Willows, an arrival of a very different kind happened at Renton;--and yet it could not be called an arrival. There had be...
6. CHAPTER VI.Some days after Mr. Ponsonby’s visit, Mary Westbury saw from her room, where she happened to be sitting, a carriage drive up the avenue. It was only about twelve o’clock, an unu...
3. CHAPTER III.Frank was not in spirits to go to his club, or anywhere else, after the events of the afternoon. He made a rush for the train instead, thirsting for the quiet of his quarters, i...
4. CHAPTER IV.Space forbids the historian to attempt any description of the difficulties which Mary had to encounter in her benevolent undertaking. By Frank’s urgent desire,--for his courage...
1. CHAPTER I.Alice Severn was very innocent and very young,--just over sixteen,--a child to all intents and purposes,--as everybody thought around her. Old Welby, who had taken to meddling i...
11. CHAPTER XI.Laurie arrived on the Friday, coming in, in his usual unexpected way, through the window, when they were all in the drawing-room after dinner. The brothers had met in town, wher...
10. CHAPTER X.‘Let us run to the Cottage for five minutes, and see mamma,’ said Mary, as they made their way back. ‘Fancy, Ben, she does not know you have come home!’