"Perhaps I can account for it," I went on. "Did Mr. Romayne tell his wife that I was the means of i...
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delightful place. It was a surprise to me, Mrs. Eyrecourt, to see so many really beautiful country ...
shake his resolution, and to make him submit himself again to Miss Eyrecourt's fascinations. What m...
following Stella, but, in the excess of her nervous apprehension, she took one of the men-servants ...
you?"--rang in her ears. She entreated Madame Marillac to break the unendurable interval of silence...
you, I received your instructions to report, by letter, the result of my conversations on religion ...
The library door was thrown open by a servant. Stella herself entered the room. CHAPTER VIII. THE...
knew her well enough to shake hands as you did." "Hynd! When a young man talks nonsense, his youth ...
said afterward I was afraid you were very ill. We were in the confusion of arriving at Folkestone--...
kindness.' Penrose took my hand, in his gentle, considerate way. 'I understand you, too,' he said--...
in Mr. Winterfield's life have connected him with a young lady named Miss Stella Eyrecourt. If this...
is, be the salvation of him. Would he ever marry? Leaning over the bulwark, idly pursuing this trai...
"Something you don't like?" Lord Loring suggested. "No; something I don't quite understand. One doe...
Although not of the north country myself, I knew the meaning of the phrase. Garthwaite suspected th...
fair friend; and, as a good Catholic, she would feel flattered by the notice of the spiritual direc...