Showing How Affairs Settled Themselves at Noningsby

We must now go back to Noningsby for one concluding chapter, and then our work will be completed. ‘You are not to go away from Noningsby when the trial is over, you know. Mamma said that I had better tell you so.’ It was thus...

I Love Her Still

It was all over now, and as Lucius had said to his mother, there was nothing left for them but to go and hide themselves. The verdict had reached him before his mother’s return, and on the moment of his hearing it he sat...

Mrs Orme Tells the Story

It was late when that second day’s work was over, and when Mrs Orme and Lady Mason again found themselves in the Hamworth carriage. They had sat in court from ten in the morning till past seven, with a short interval of a few...

The First Journey to Alston

At that time Sir Richard Leatherham was the Solicitor-general, and he had been retained as leading counsel for the prosecution. It was quite understood by all men who did understand what was going on in the world, that this trial had been in truth...

Lady Mason Returns Home

Lady Mason remained at The Cleeve for something more than a week after that day on which she made her confession, during which time she was fully committed to take her trial at the next assizes at Alston on an indictment for perjury. This...

Showing How Things Went On at Noningsby

Yes, Lady Staveley had known it before. She had given a fairly correct guess at the state of her daughter’s affections, though she had not perhaps acknowledged to herself the intensity of her daughter’s feelings. But the fact might not have mattered if it...

Why Should He Go?

‘I am well aware, Mr Staveley, that you are one of those gentlemen who amuse themselves by frequently saying such things to girls. I had learned your character in that respect before I had been in the house two days.’ ‘Then, Miss Furnival, you learned...

Breaking Covert

‘There’s a double ditch and bank that will do as well,’ Miss Tristram had said when she was informed that there was no gate out of the wood at the side on which the fox had broken. The gentleman who had tendered the...

The English Von Bauhr

On the following morning, before breakfast, Felix Graham and Augustus Staveley prepared themselves for the labours of the coming day by a walk into the country; for even at Birmingham, by perseverance, a walk into the country may be attained, — and very pretty country it...

A Morning Call at Mount Pleasant Villa

On the following day Lady Mason made two visits, using her new vehicle for the first time. She would fain have walked had she dared; but she would have given terrible offence to her son by doing so. He had explained to her, and...