The Vicissitudes of Evangeline

I told her how poor mamma had been rather an accident, and was nobody much. “One could not tell, you see, she might have had any quaint creature beyond the grandparents--perhaps...

Mr. Mackintosh is too small to manage two, so one of the footmen had to come and help him to carry them up to their nursery! Oh, I would not be in his place for the world!

We had been talking for nearly a quarter of an hour--she had incidentally asked me where I was staying now, and had not seemed surprised or shocked when I said Claridge’s, and b...

“Darling,” he faltered, and his voice trembled with emotion, “darling, love is between you and me, it is our lives--however that can go, the ways of my family, nothing shall eve...

“It is an impossible position for a girl--completely alone. I cannot allow it. I feel responsible for you. After all, it would do very well if you married me--I am not particula...

I WONDER so much if it is amusing to be an adventuress, because that is evidently what I shall become now. I read in a book all about it; it is being nice-looking and having not...

“I shall not leave you, Bob,” he said. “I do not consider you are a good companion for Miss Evangeline. I am responsible for her, and I am going to take care of her.”

“Let’s find Harbottle. Harbottle is papa’s valet,” Corisande said, “and he is much thoughtfuller than papa. Last time he brought me a Highland boy doll, though papa had forgotte...

I did not particularly want to do that, so stayed in my room as long as I could. The four girls were seated at a large table in the hall, each with a volume in front of her when...

“Evangeline, what _have_ you been doing?” she asked, when I got into her room, where her maid was settling her veil before the glass, and trembling over it--Lady Ver is sometime...

“Would it be any good if Colonel Tom Carden went and spoke to him?” I asked, presently. “He was best man at papa’s wedding, and knows all that there is to be known of poor mamma...