Category: Novels
Philip Debenham, at the advanced age of eighteen years, was, to use his own words, ‘a desperate man.’ The cause of his desperation was a piece of information he had just received in a letter, which lay open before him, and which was signed ‘Your affectionate uncle, Alfred Bela...
Philip Debenham, at the advanced age of eighteen years, was, to use his own words, ‘a desperate man.’ The cause of his desperation was a piece of information he had just receive...
2. CHAPTER II.Ten years later, upon a hot day in May, Torrington Torwood sat beside Philip Debenham’s sick-bed in a large, bare room of an odd little hotel in the village of Hornberg, in the...
3. CHAPTER III.Yes; the plunge was taken, the die was cast. Torrington Torwood had taken upon himself the personification of Philip Debenham, and by the time that he had posted with his invali...
4. CHAPTER IV.Five ladies were assembled in the drawing-room of Thornton House, and all five appeared to be in a state of expectancy, which in the cases of one or two amounted to positive exc...
5. CHAPTER V.‘Now, Phil, at last we have got you to ourselves—I thought we never should do it. Oh, there is such a lot to say, I don’t know where to begin!’
6. CHAPTER VI.Tor awoke next morning to a variety of new sensations. This personation of his friend, which had seemed a simple thing enough at the first and at a distance, looked a far more d...
7. CHAPTER VII.The master of Ladywell was winning golden opinions from all around him. Mr. Belassis had found him pleasant and easy to deal with in a business capacity, and there had been no a...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The beautiful house, with its great rooms and wide corridors, seemed like a palace to her; and the luxury and costliness of her surroundings were delightful, after the somewhat...
9. CHAPTER IX.On this bright June morning it certainly did look very bright and picturesque, with its old-fashioned red-brick houses and its wide, clean main street, upon which all the best s...
10. CHAPTER X.There was no doubt that Maud Debenham made a charming mistress of Ladywell Manor. She had a natural grace and freshness, and a spontaneous vivacity that was very attractive; and...
11. CHAPTER XI.Since his nephew’s arrival in England, Mr. Belassis had felt anything but at ease. To use a well-worn simile, he felt like one who walks over a powder-mine which may at any time...
12. CHAPTER XII.For some days after that encounter with Belassis, Tor saw little of the uncle or the uncle’s family. He was rather glad of this, because Matilda and Bertha had grown somewhat pr...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Maud had spoken nothing but the truth, when she said that the supposed Phil paid frequent visits to the blind sculptor’s house. Michael Meredith had grown very fond of the young...
14. CHAPTER XIV.That talk with Roma in the studio left an impression upon Tor’s mind which was decidedly favourable to the young sculptor. Hitherto he had thought her cold and proud, and decide...
15. CHAPTER XV.‘Was he so sure? I fancied he had only made a mistake. Philip didn’t seem to think it so very odd. I suppose they have been mistaken for one another before.’
16. CHAPTER XVI.‘He has not lost time, at any rate,’ quoth the brisk little gentlewoman, looking up from her letter. ‘He is coming this very afternoon. Well, I’m glad to find young men are not...