By Charlotte M. Yonge
By Charlotte M. Yonge
Transcriber’s note: There are numerous examples throughout this text of words appearing in alternate spellings: madame/madam, practise/ practice, Ladyship/ladyship, &c. We can only wonder what the publisher had in mind. I have left them unchanged.—D.L.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
LOVE AND LIFE.
CHAPTER I. A SYLLABUB PARTY
CHAPTER II. THE HOUSE OF DELAVIE
CHAPTER III. AMONG THE COWSLIPS
CHAPTER IV. MY LADY’S MISSIVE
CHAPTER V. THE SUMMONS
CHAPTER VI. DISAPPOINTED LOVE
CHAPTER VII. ALL ALONE
CHAPTER VIII. THE ENCHANTED CASTLE
CHAPTER IX. THE TRIAD
CHAPTER X. THE DARK CHAMBER
CHAPTER XI. A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE
CHAPTER XII. THE SHAFTS OF PHOEBE
CHAPTER XIII. THE FLUTTER OF HIS WINGS
CHAPTER XIV. THE CANON OF WINDSOR
CHAPTER XV. THE QUEEN OF BEAUTY
CHAPTER XVI. AUGURIES
CHAPTER XVII. THE VICTIM DEMANDED
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PROPOSAL
CHAPTER XIX. WOOING IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XX. THE MUFFLED BRIDEGROOM
CHAPTER XXI. THE SISTERS’ MEETING
CHAPTER XXII. A FATAL SPARK
CHAPTER XXIII. WRATH AND DESOLATION
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WANDERER
CHAPTER XXV. VANISHED
CHAPTER XXVI. THE TRACES
CHAPTER XXVII. CYTHEREA’S BOWER
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ROUT
CHAPTER XXIX. A BLACK BLONDEL
CHAPTER XXX. THE FIRST TASK
CHAPTER XXXI. THE SECOND TASK
CHAPTER XXXII. LIONS
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE COSMETIC
CHAPTER XXXIV. DOWN THE RIVER
CHAPTER XXXV. THE RETURN
CHAPTER XXXVI. WAKING
CHAPTER XXXVII. MAKING THE BEST OF IT