Category: Romance
The Wellfields: A novel. Vol. 2 of 3
WHEN Nita and Jerome again arrived at the Abbey, they found that Mr. Bolton had returned from Burnham, and that the midday dinner, which was an institution in the family, was waiting for them.
Chapters
1. CHAPTER VI.
WHEN Nita and Jerome again arrived at the Abbey, they found that Mr. Bolton had returned from Burnham, and that the midday dinner, which was an institution in the family, was wa...
2. CHAPTER VII.‘Not that the play is worth much, but it is finely acted.... But that which did please me more than anything in the whole world was the musique when the angell comes down; which...
3. CHAPTER VIII.‘I found myself in a richly adorned temple, in which incense was burning, where lights were twinkling above the altar, and where the music was such as to ravish away my very sen...
4. CHAPTER IX.AUGUST was verging slowly towards September; the hues of the flowers were more gorgeous and more autumnal; the foliage of the trees had taken a soberer, more mature tinge. The w...
5. CHAPTER X.JEROME was not without visitors when he was fairly established at Monk’s Gate. John Leyburn frequently found his way down there, and so did Father Somerville, and in him Wellfie...
6. CHAPTER I.THE Professor’s grand, rugged face and delicate, artist brow were somewhat clouded. He rose from the chair before the easel, on which he had been sitting, and laid his brush down.
7. CHAPTER II.‘Frau Goldmark!’ she exclaimed, rising in astonishment. Frau Goldmark was the widow of that young artist of promise, of whose sudden death Wilhelmi had informed her. Sara had he...
8. CHAPTER III.IT had at first been intended to give the _tableaux vivants_, or as they call them in Germany, _lebende Bilder_, in the small hall of the pretty little _Malkasten_, or artists’...
9. CHAPTER IV.WHEN Herr Falkenberg arrived the following afternoon in the Jägerstrasse, he found Miss Ford alone in her atelier. She had sent Avice out with Ellen, she told him, to walk off t...
10. CHAPTER V.ON the following evening, Sara, when she arrived at the Wilhelmis’, found a large, gay party assembled, consisting chiefly of those who had distinguished themselves in the _lebe...
11. CHAPTER VI.PERHAPS Sara Ford was the solitary person who never gave a thought as to why Rudolf Falkenberg paid so long a visit to the Wilhelmis’. Everyone else, from Frau Goldmark upwards,...
12. CHAPTER VII.THE postman did not call at all the following morning, and Sara, she scarcely knew why, felt sick at heart. What a martyrdom those four or five postal deliveries per diem of a g...
13. CHAPTER VIII.SARA had a short visit on the following morning from Father Somerville, paid ostensibly for the purpose of telling her his arrangements, and asking if Avice could be ready by a...
14. CHAPTER IX.THE morning dawned, and brought the hour at which they were to be at the station. There was the brief time of waiting there, the averted eyes and stealthily-clasped hands. The t...