Political fiction
----From infancy They have convers’d, and spent their hours together; And though the one hath been an idle truant, Omitting the sweet benefit of time; ----Yet hath the other Made use and fair advantage of his days. His years are young, but his experience old; His head unmellow...
----From infancy They have convers’d, and spent their hours together; And though the one hath been an idle truant, Omitting the sweet benefit of time; ----Yet hath the other Mad...
2. CHAPTER II.The next morning, having despatched an early breakfast, our travellers were becoming rather impatient at the slowness of the progress of the preparations making for their separa...
3. CHAPTER III.“Now for it,” said Fitzalbert, rising from the breakfast-table, and walking towards the window; “why it can’t mean to rain!” he added, in a tone of mingled astonishment and repr...
4. CHAPTER IV.This from a dying man receive as certain: When you are liberal of your loves and counsels Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends And give your hearts to, when they...
5. CHAPTER V.Heavens, have I said, the bounty of this lord! How many prodigal bits have slaves, and peasants, This night englutted! Who is not Timon’s? What heart, head, sword, force, means,...
6. CHAPTER VI.----At first I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue: Where the impression of mine eye enfixing, Contempt his scornful perspective did...
7. CHAPTER VII.“Who do you think is coming here to-day?” said Lady Flamborough to her two daughters, as she retired with them to her dressing-room, the party dispersing after breakfast at Bore...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The next morning’s post brought a few lines from Lady Latimer to Lady Boreton, announcing her intended arrival to dinner that day. The intercourse between the two families had a...
9. CHAPTER IX.“And what has become of Mr. Oakley since his late acquisition?” was one of the first questions Lady Latimer asked of Germain. Perhaps the reader may share her ladyship’s curiosi...
10. CHAPTER X.Lady Latimer and her protégée were left retiring to dress, and according to generally-established precedent, a full and detailed account ought to be given of the successful resu...
11. CHAPTER XI.The intercourse of society is maintained by a sort of tacit compact between the few who are determined to have their own way, and the many who consent to allow it them. If it we...
12. CHAPTER XII.It was a few days after the foregoing interview between Lady Latimer and her mother, that Lord Latimer, beckoning Fitzalbert aside after breakfast, communicated to him the unsuc...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The long-expected dissolution of Parliament at length took place. The day of reckoning at length arrived; and M. P.s of every degree were called to render up an account of their...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Germain in the mean time proceeded prosperously with his canvass; to go through all the various duties of this busy time was to him much less of an effort than to Oakley. Some a...
15. CHAPTER XV.There shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.
16. CHAPTER XVI._2nd Officer._ Three, they say; but ’tis thought of every one Coriolanus will carry it. There have been many great men that have flattered the people, who ne’er loved them; and...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Whilst the contest still continued, Oakley had not felt any despondency at his daily diminishing hopes of success. The reputation of a martyr was one peculiarly suited to his ch...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.“And you never were at a ball before, my dear Helen?” said Lady Latimer, as they drove into town that day. “How you will enjoy it, and what a sensation you will create! Why, it...