Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
“La joie de faire du bien est tout autrement douce et touchante que la joie de recevoir. Revenez-y encore; c’est un plaisir qui ne s’use point; plus on le goûte, plus on se rend digne de le goûter.”
“La joie de faire du bien est tout autrement douce et touchante que la joie de recevoir. Revenez-y encore; c’est un plaisir qui ne s’use point; plus on le goûte, plus on se rend...
2. CHAPTER II.Before the plans for his new school were well settled Lionel’s time was much occupied. The autumn had been rainy, and in a violent storm in the middle of November the river rose...
3. CHAPTER III.“Oh! never say that I was false of heart; Though absence seemed my flame to qualify, As easy might I from myself depart As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie. That is my...
4. CHAPTER IV.The hard winter passed by; a mild spring and early summer promised a good harvest, and the bad times were beginning to be spoken of as a thing of the past, not of the present. T...
5. CHAPTER V.It was about this moment that the shower mentioned in a previous chapter suddenly fell. Ida and Miss White were under shelter. The other schoolmistress and a servant and maid fr...
6. CHAPTER VI.She acquiesced and followed her father. His manner had not been loverlike when he made his request, but that was not Lionel’s way; and, as she walked and thought, she fancied th...
7. CHAPTER VII.Late in the afternoon a note was brought to Violet. She had been very dejected all the day, a mood of mind which for the last two hours had changed, but only changed into a rest...
8. CHAPTER VIII.A week or two of dejection and depression, and then, in the varying turns and events of life, a circumstance occurred to change the current of Violet’s ideas, and send her thoug...
9. CHAPTER IX.The six weeks interval passed rapidly. The wedding-day arrived. Mrs. Osborne remained at home. She was well, but never strong; and the long absence from excitement and fatigue w...
10. CHAPTER X.It was not long before Violet was convinced that in forwarding a removal from Holywell she would not be opposing her father’s private wishes. Mr. Osborne was not old, but he was...
11. CHAPTER XI.Sir William Hamilton’s conduct was very easy of explanation. His love for Violet had turned his thoughts towards marriage. His ill-success had not, as is sometimes the case, rob...
12. CHAPTER XII.The simple reception of Leicester’s letter had brought hope and animation to Violet. She was destined to receive encouragement to her hopes at a time, and from a source, that wa...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Two months afterwards Mr. Pope joined the hands of Leicester and Violet. It was at Holywell that the marriage took place. It was there, commended to Ida’s special charge, that V...
14. CHAPTER XIV.She raised her head, and Ida and Lionel met once more. It was nearly two years since Violet’s marriage. They had not met since _that_ interview in the garden at Boscombe. Both l...