Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
“He praised his lucky stars that in his place He never found neglect nor felt disgrace; To do his duty was his soul’s delight, This his inferiors would to theirs excite, This his superiors notice and requite. To either class he gave the praises due, And still more grateful as...
“He praised his lucky stars that in his place He never found neglect nor felt disgrace; To do his duty was his soul’s delight, This his inferiors would to theirs excite, This hi...
2. CHAPTER II.After luncheon Mr. Osborne set off on a five miles walk to the nearest large town. It was too far for Violet, had she been willing to leave her mother alone. She remained theref...
3. CHAPTER III.There had been several days of bright morning frost, and they were followed by a day of incessant rain. It was such a day as had tried Violet’s temper, even in her old happy hom...
4. CHAPTER IV.Violet returned ready for her walk, and set forth with Mr. and Mrs. Pope. The dense fog, that was almost rain, still continued, and, for a great part of the way, Mr. Pope apolog...
5. CHAPTER V.The one cross in Mr. Pope’s lot was the impenetrability of his two rich neighbours to his ministerial labours; but in the case of Lord Ashford, this cross weighed far less heavi...
6. CHAPTER VI.The following morning, while Violet was practising, she was drawn to the window by the sound of the quick canter of a pony down the road, and then its pause at the cottage door....
7. CHAPTER VII.“I will let you out by a shorter way than you came,” he said, after a stiff inclination of his head, “if you will be good enough to come with me. Ida, wish Miss Osborne good-bye.”
8. CHAPTER VIII.“There is instant delight in the first conceptions of benevolence; there is sustained delight in its continued exercise; there is consummated delight in the happy, smiling, pros...
9. CHAPTER IX.When Leicester returned from the business in Yorkshire, on which he had been engaged, he, acting according to the expression in the letter to Marian, put away the memory of the...
10. CHAPTER X.Violet carried on for ten days her new avocations with complete success and considerable absorption of mind. Visits to Ida were frequently paid; and the more she saw of the simp...
11. CHAPTER XI.Though Albert’s visit in some degree roused Violet, she remained an altered creature. She had to strive against vain longings, vain regrets, and at times that half-frenzy of sel...
12. CHAPTER XII.“Death took away King Herod in his pride, Death spared not Hercules for all his strength, Death shooke great Alexander till he dye’d, Death spared Adam, yet he dye’d at length....
13. CHAPTER XIII.Among Violet’s many disappointments, and she naturally had many besides the one just related, she had one success so great that she herself marvelled at it. There are soils so f...