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12	_HOME À LA POMPADOUR._	WELL, Lillie came back at last; and John conducted her over the transformed Seymour mansion, where literally old things had passed away, and all things become new. There was not a relic of the past. The house was furbished and resplendent—it was gilded—it was frescoed—it was _à la_ Pompadour, and _à la_ Louis Quinze ...	{ "id": "12354" }
13	_JOHN’S BIRTHDAY._	“MY dear Lillie,” quoth John one morning, “next week Wednesday is my birthday.” “Is it? How charming! What shall we do?” “Well, Lillie, it has always been our custom—Grace’s and mine—to give a grand _fête_ here to all our work-people. We invite them all over _en masse_, and have the house and grounds all open, and ...	{ "id": "12354" }
14	_A GREAT MORAL CONFLICT._	“NOW, John dear, I have something very particular that I want you to promise me,” said Mrs. Lillie, a day or two after the scenes last recorded. Our Lillie had recovered her spirits, and got over her headache, and had come down and done her best to be delightful; and when a very pretty woman, who has all her life studi...	{ "id": "12354" }
15	_THE FOLLINGSBEES ARRIVE._	[Illustration: THE FOLLINGSBEES.] NEXT week the Follingsbees alighted, so to speak, from a cloud of glory. They came in their own carriage, and with their own horses; all in silk and silver, purple and fine linen, “with rings on their fingers and bells on their toes,” as the old song has it. We pause to caution our r...	{ "id": "12354" }
16	_MRS. JOHN SEYMOUR’S PARTY, AND WHAT CAME OF IT._	MRS. JOHN SEYMOUR’S party marked an era in the annals of Springdale. Of this, you may be sure, my dear reader, when you consider that it was projected and arranged by Mrs. Lillie, in strict counsel with her friend Mrs. Follingsbee, who had lived in Paris, and been to balls at the Tuileries. Of course, it was a tip-top ...	{ "id": "12354" }
17	_AFTER THE BATTLE._	“WELL, Grace, the Follingsbees are gone at last, I am thankful to say,” said John, as he stretched himself out on the sofa in Grace’s parlor with a sigh of relief. “If ever I am caught in such a scrape again, I shall know it.” “Yes, it is all well over,” said Grace. “Over! I wish you would look at the bills. Why, G...	{ "id": "12354" }
18	_A BRICK TURNS UP._	THE snow had been all night falling silently over the long elm avenues of Springdale. It was one of those soft, moist, dreamy snow-falls, which come down in great loose feathers, resting in magical frost-work on every tree, shrub, and plant, and seeming to bring down with it the purity and peace of upper worlds. Gr...	{ "id": "12354" }
19	_THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE._	IF John managed to be happy without Lillie in Springdale, Lillie managed to be blissful without him in New York. “The bird let loose in Eastern skies” never hastened more fondly home than she to its glitter and gayety, its life and motion, dash and sensation. She rustled in all her bravery of curls and frills, pinkin...	{ "id": "12354" }
20	_THE VAN ASTRACHANS._	THE Van Astrachans, a proud, rich old family, who took a certain defined position in New-York life on account of some ancestral passages in their family history, had invited Rose to spend a month or two with them; and she was therefore moving as a star in a very high orbit. Now, these Van Astrachans were one of those...	{ "id": "12354" }
21	_MRS. FOLLINGSBEE’S PARTY, AND WHAT CAME OF IT._	OUR vulgar idea of a party is a week or fortnight of previous discomfort and chaotic tergiversation, and the mistress of it all distracted and worn out with endless cares. Such a party bursts in on a well-ordered family state as a bomb bursts into a city, leaving confusion and disorder all around. But it would be a pit...	{ "id": "12354" }
22	_THE SPIDER-WEB BROKEN._	HARRY did not go back, to lead the “German,” as he had been engaged to do. In fact, in his last apologies to Mrs. Follingsbee, he had excused himself on account of his partner’s sudden indisposition,—a thing which made no small buzz and commotion; though the missing gap, like all gaps great and little in human society,...	{ "id": "12354" }
23	_COMMON-SENSE ARGUMENTS._	HARRY went straightway from the interview to call upon Lillie, and had a conversation with her; in which he conducted himself like a sober, discreet, and rational man. It was one of those daylight, matter-of-fact kinds of talks, with no nonsense about them, in which things are called by their right names. He confessed ...	{ "id": "12354" }
24	None	_SENTIMENT v. SENSIBILITY. _ THE poet has feelingly sung the condition of “The banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, and garlands dead,” &c., and so we need not cast the daylight of minute description on the Follingsbee mansion. Charlie Ferrola, however, was summoned away at early daylight, just ...	{ "id": "12354" }
25	_WEDDING BELLS._	SOME weeks had passed in Springdale while these affairs had been going on in New York. The time for the marriage of Grace had been set; and she had gone to Boston to attend to that preparatory shopping which even the most sensible of the sex discover to be indispensable on such occasions. Grace inclined, in the centr...	{ "id": "12354" }
26	_MOTHERHOOD._	IT is supposed by some that to become a mother is of itself a healing and saving dispensation; that of course the reign of selfishness ends, and the reign of better things begins, with the commencement of maternity. But old things do not pass away and all things become new by any such rapid process of conversion. A w...	{ "id": "12354" }
27	_CHECKMATE._	IF ever our readers have observed two chess-players, both ardent, skilful, determined, who have been carrying on noiselessly the moves of a game, they will understand the full significance of this decisive term. Up to this point, there is hope, there is energy, there is enthusiasm; the pieces are marshalled and manag...	{ "id": "12354" }
28	_AFTER THE STORM._	THE painful and unfortunate crises of life often arise and darken like a thunder-storm, and seem for the moment perfectly terrific and overwhelming; but wait a little, and the cloud sweeps by, and the earth, which seemed about to be torn to pieces and destroyed, comes out as good as new. Not a bird is dead; not a flowe...	{ "id": "12354" }
29	_THE NEW LILLIE._	[Illustration] WE have but one scene more before our story closes. It is night now in Lillie’s sick-room; and her mother is anxiously arranging the drapery, to keep the fire-light from her eyes, stepping noiselessly about the room. She lies there behind the curtains, on her pillow,—the wreck and remnant only of what ...	{ "id": "12354" }
1	The Three Cranes in the Vintry.	Adjoining the Vintry Wharf, and at the corner of a narrow lane communicating with Thames Street, there stood, in the early part of the Seventeenth Century, a tavern called the Three Cranes. This old and renowned place of entertainment had then been in existence more than two hundred years, though under other designatio...	{ "id": "12396" }
2	Sir Giles Mompesson and his partner.	Madame Bonaventure had already paid considerable sums to the two extortioners, but she resisted their last application; in consequence of which she received a monition from Sir Giles Mompesson, to the effect that, in a month's time, her license would be withdrawn, and her house shut up, unless, in the interim, she cons...	{ "id": "12396" }
3	The French ordinary.	The month allowed by the notice expired, and Madame Bonaventure's day of reckoning arrived. No arrangement had been attempted in the interim, though abundant opportunities of doing so were afforded her, as Sir Francis Mitchell visited the Three Cranes almost daily. She appeared to treat the matter very lightly, alway...	{ "id": "12396" }
4	A Star-Chamber victim.	His hunger being somewhat stayed, Sir Francis now found leisure to consider the young man who had so greatly befriended him, and, as a means of promoting conversation between them, began by filling his glass from a flask of excellent Bordeaux, of which, in spite of Cyprien's efforts to prevent him, he had contrived to ...	{ "id": "12396" }
5	Jocelyn Mounchensey.	Notwithstanding the risk incurred, the young man, whose feelings were evidently deeply interested, seemed disposed to pursue the dangerous theme; but perceiving one of their opposite neighbours glancing at them, Sir Francis checked him; and filling his glass essayed to change the conversation, by inquiring how long he ...	{ "id": "12396" }
6	Provocation.	A momentary pause ensued, during which Mounchensey regarded the knight so fiercely, that the latter began to entertain apprehensions for his personal safety, and meditated a precipitate retreat. Yet he did not dare to move, lest the action should bring upon him the hurt he wished to avoid. Thus he remained, like a bird...	{ "id": "12396" }
7	How Lord Roos obtained Sir Francis Mitchell's signature.	"What, my prince of usurers!" exclaimed Lord Roos, in a mocking tone; "my worthy money-lender, who never takes more than cent. per cent., and art ill content with less; who never exacts more than the penalty of thy bond,--unless more may be got; who never drives a hard bargain with a needy man--by thine own account; wh...	{ "id": "12396" }
8	Of Lupo Vulp, Captain Bludder, Clement Lanyere, and Sir Giles's other Myrmidons.	Close behind Sir Giles, and a little in advance of the rest of the myrmidons, stood Lupo Vulp, the scrivener. Lupo Vulp was the confidential adviser of our two extortioners, to whom they referred all their nefarious projects. He it was who prepared their bonds and contracts, and placed out their ill-gotten gains at e...	{ "id": "12396" }
9	The Letters-Patent.	A slight reaction in Sir Giles's favour was produced by his speech, but Jocelyn quite regained his position with the company when he exclaimed-- "My father was misjudged. His prosecutor was a villain, and his sentence iniquitous." "You have uttered your own condemnation, Jocelyn Mounchensey," Sir Giles cried, with a...	{ "id": "12396" }
10	The 'prentices and their leader.	While the Marquis of Buckingham and his suite were moving towards the wharf, amid the acclamations of the crowd (for in the early part of his brilliant career the haughty favourite was extremely popular with the multitude, probably owing to the princely largesses he was in the habit of distributing among them), a very ...	{ "id": "12396" }
11	John Wolfe.	When Jocelyn Mounchensey called for his reckoning, Madame Bonaventure took him aside, showing, by her looks, that she had something important to communicate to him, and began by telling him he was heartily welcome to all he had partaken of at her ordinary, adding that she considered herself very greatly his debtor for ...	{ "id": "12396" }
12	The Arrest and the Rescue.	Lupo Vulp had endeavoured to dissuade Sir Giles from putting his design of arresting Jocelyn into immediate execution; alleging the great risk he would incur, as well from the resolute character of the young man himself, who was certain to offer determined resistance, as from the temper of the company, which, being dec...	{ "id": "12396" }
13	How Jocelyn Mounchensey encountered a masked horseman on Stamford Hill.	Two days after the events last recorded, a horseman, followed at a respectful distance by a mounted attendant, took his way up Stamford Hill. He was young, and of singularly prepossessing appearance, with a countenance full of fire and spirit, and blooming with health, and it was easy to see that his life had been pass...	{ "id": "12396" }
14	The May-Queen and the Puritan's Daughter.	Popular sports and pastimes were wisely encouraged by James the First, whose great consideration for the enjoyments of the humbler classes of his subjects cannot be too highly commended; and since the main purpose of this history is to point out some of the abuses prevalent during his reign, it is but fair that at leas...	{ "id": "12396" }
15	Hugh Calveley.	Jocelyn at once comprehended that the person who had thus dashed the nosegay to the ground could be no other than Hugh Calveley. But all doubt on the point was removed by Aveline herself who exclaimed in a reproachful tone--"O father! what have you done?" "What have I done?" the Puritan rejoined, speaking in a loud v...	{ "id": "12396" }
16	Of the sign given by the Puritan to the Assemblage.	Meanwhile, a great crowd had collected beneath the window, and though no interruption was offered to the speaker, it was easy to discern from the angry countenances of his hearers what was the effect of the address upon them. When he had done, Hugh Calveley folded his arms upon his breast, and sternly regarded the asse...	{ "id": "12396" }
17	A rash promise.	During the slender repast, Jocelyn, in reply to the inquiries of the Puritan, explained the two-fold motive of his coming to London; namely, the desire of taking vengeance on his father's enemies, and the hope of obtaining some honourable employment, such as a gentleman might accept. "My chances in the latter respect...	{ "id": "12396" }
18	How the promise was cancelled.	It was a large garden, once fairly laid out and planted, but now sadly neglected. The broad terrace walk was overgrown with weeds; the stone steps and the carved balusters were broken in places, and covered with moss; the once smooth lawn was unconscious of the scythe; the parterres had lost their quaint devices; and t...	{ "id": "12396" }
19	Theobalds' Palace.	The magnificent palace of Theobalds, situated near Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire, originally the residence of the great Lord Treasurer Burleigh, and the scene of his frequent and sumptuous entertainments to Queen Elizabeth and the ambassadors to her Court, when she "was seen," says Stow, "in as great royalty, and served a...	{ "id": "12396" }
20	King James the First.	Meantime the royal cavalcade came slowly up the avenue. It was very numerous, and all the more brilliant in appearance, since it comprised nearly as many high-born dames as nobles. Amongst the distinguished foreigners who with their attendants swelled the party were the Venetian lieger-ambassador Giustiniano, and the M...	{ "id": "12396" }
21	Consequences of the Puritan's warning.	Coupling Hugh Calveley's present strange appearance and solemn warning with his previous denunciations uttered in secret, and his intimations of some dread design, with which he had sought to connect the young man himself, intimating that its execution would jeopardize his life; putting these things together, we say, J...	{ "id": "12396" }
22	Wife and Mother-in-Law.	Quick steps descended the narrow staircase--steps so light and cautious that they made no sound. Before drawing aside the arras that covered the secret entrance to the chamber, the lady paused to listen; and hearing nothing to alarm her, she softly raised a corner of the woof and looked in. What did she behold? A you...	{ "id": "12396" }
23	The Tress of Hair.	How to extricate himself from the dilemma in which he was placed, Lord Roos scarcely knew. But he had a good deal of self-possession, and it did not desert him on the present trying occasion. After such consideration as circumstances permitted, he could discern only one chance of escape, and though well-nigh hopeless, ...	{ "id": "12396" }
24	The Fountain Court.	On the morning after the eventful passage in his life, previously related, our newly-created knight was standing, in a pensive attitude, beside the beautiful fountain, adorned with two fair statues, representing the Queen of Love and her son, heretofore described as placed in the centre of the great quadrangle of the P...	{ "id": "12396" }
25	Sir Thomas Lake.	A grave-looking man, of a melancholy and severe aspect, and attired in a loose robe of black velvet, was seated alone in a chamber, the windows of which opened upon the Fountain Court, which we have just quitted. He wore a silken skull-cap, from beneath which a few gray hairs escaped; his brow was furrowed with innumer...	{ "id": "12396" }
26	The forged Confession.	Some little time had elapsed since Aveline's departure on her sorrowful errand, and Sir Thomas Lake was still alone, and once more deeply engrossed in the consideration of the document, which, it will be recollected, had occasioned him so much disquietude; and the feeling by no means diminished when the usher entered a...	{ "id": "12396" }
27	The Puritan's Prison.	Hugh Calveley, it has already been intimated, was lodged in a vault beneath the gateway. The place was commonly used as a sort of black-hole for the imprisonment of any refractory member of the royal household, or soldier on guard guilty of neglect of duty. Circular in shape, it contained a large pillar, to which iron ...	{ "id": "12396" }
28	The Secret.	Thrice was the guard relieved during that long night, and as often was the prisoner visited. On the first occasion, he was found to be still engaged with his Bible, and he so continued during the whole time the man remained in the vault. The next who came discovered him on his knees, praying loudly and fervently, and...	{ "id": "12396" }
29	Luke Hatton.	Feigning sudden indisposition (and the excuse was not altogether without foundation), the Countess of Exeter quitted Theobalds Palace on the day after her unlucky visit to Lord Roos's chamber, and proceeded to her husband's residence at Wimbledon, where she was speedily joined by her lover, who brought her word of the ...	{ "id": "12396" }
1	THE EXPERIENCES OF GOODY MADGE	"Dear Madam, think me not to blame; Invisible the fairy came. Your precious babe is hence conveyed, And in its place a changeling laid. Where are the father's mouth and nose, The mother's eyes as black as sloes? See here, a shocking awkward creature, That speaks a fool in every feature." GAY. "He is an ugly ill-fav...	{ "id": "12449" }
2	HIGH TREASON	"Whate'er it be that is within his reach, The filching trick he doth his fingers teach." Robin Badfellow. There was often a considerable distance between children and their parents in the seventeenth century, but Anne Woodford, as the only child of her widowed mother, was as solace, comfort, and companion; and on h...	{ "id": "12449" }
3	THE FAIRY KING	"She's turned her right and round about, And thrice she blew on a grass-green horn, And she sware by the moon and the stars above That she'd gar me rue the day I was born." Old Ballad of Alison Cross. Dr. Woodford's parish was Portchester, where stood the fine old royal castle at present ungarrisoned, and par...	{ "id": "12449" }
4	IMP OR NO IMP	"But wist I of a woman bold Who thrice my brow durst sign, I might regain my mortal mould, As fair a form as thine." SCOTT. At last came a wakening with intelligence in the eyes. In the summer morning light that streamed through the chinks of the shutters Mrs. Woodford perceived the glance of inquiry, and whe...	{ "id": "12449" }
5	PEREGRINE'S HOME	"For, at a word, be it understood, He was always for ill and never for good." SCOTT. A week had passed since any of the family from Oakwood had come to make inquiries after the convalescent at Portchester, when Dr. Woodford mounted his sleek, sober-paced pad, and accompanied by a groom, rode over to make his report...	{ "id": "12449" }
6	A RELAPSE	"A tell-tale in their company They never could endure, And whoso kept not secretly Their pranks was punished sure. It was a just and Christian deed To pinch such black and blue; Oh, how the commonwealth doth need Such justices as you!" BISHOP CORBETT. Several days passed, during which there could be no ...	{ "id": "12449" }
7	THE ENVOY	"I then did ask of her, her changeling child." Midsummer Night's Dream. Mrs. Woodford was too good a housewife to allow herself any extra rest on account of her vigil, and she had just put her Juneating apple-tart into the oven when Anne rushed into the kitchen with the warning that there was a grand gentleman gett...	{ "id": "12449" }
8	THE RETURN	"I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and his behaviour everywhere." Merchant of Venice. It was autumn, but in the year 1687, when again Lucy Archfield and Anne Jacobina Woodford were pacing the broad gravel walk along the south side of the nave of Winchester Cath...	{ "id": "12449" }
9	ON HIS TRAVELS	"For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." ISAAC WATTS. Peregrine went off in good spirits, promising a visit on his return to London, of which he seemed to have no doubt; but no more was heard of him for ten days. At the end of that time the Portsmouth carrier conveyed the following note to Winche...	{ "id": "12449" }
10	THE MENAGERIE	"The head remains unchanged within, Nor altered much the face, It still retains its native grin, And all its old grimace. "Men with contempt the brute surveyed, Nor would a name bestow, But women liked the motley beast, And called the thing a beau." The Monkies, MERRICK. The Woodford family did not lo...	{ "id": "12449" }
11	PROPOSALS	"Hear me, ye venerable core, As counsel for poor mortals, That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door For glaikit Folly's portals; I for their thoughtless, careless sakes Would here propose defences, Their doucie tricks, their black mistakes, Their failings and mischances." BURNS. For seven years Anne Woodfo...	{ "id": "12449" }
12	THE ONE HOPE	"There's some fearful tie Between me and that spirit world, which God Brands with His terrors on my troubled mind." KINGSLEY. The final blow had fallen upon Anne Woodford so suddenly that for the first few days she moved about as one in a dream. Lady Archfield came to her on the first day, and showed her motherly k...	{ "id": "12449" }
13	THE BONFIRE	"From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, From Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as Bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west The fiery herald sped, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: It shone on Beachy Head." MACAULAY. Doctor Woodford and his niece had not long reached the...	{ "id": "12449" }
14	GATHERING MOUSE-EAR	"I heard the groans, I marked the tears, I saw the wound his bosom bore." SCOTT. After such an evening it was not easy to fall asleep, and Anne tossed about, heated, restless, and uneasy, feeling that to remain at home was impossible, yet less satisfied about her future prospects, and doubtful whether she had no...	{ "id": "12449" }
15	NEWS FROM FAREHAM	"My soul its secret hath, my life too hath its mystery. Hopeless the evil is, I have not told its history." JEAN INGELOW. Lady Worsley was a handsome, commanding old dame, who soon made her charge feel the social gulf between a county magnate and a clergyman's niece. She decidedly thought that Mistress Anne Jacobin...	{ "id": "12449" }
16	A ROYAL NURSERY	"The duty that I owe unto your Majesty I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe." King Richard III. It was not till the Queen had moved from St. James's, where her son had been born, to take up her abode at Whitehall, that Lady Oglethorpe was considered to be disinfected from her children's whooping-cough, and could...	{ "id": "12449" }
17	MACHINATIONS	"Baby born to woe." F. T. PALGRAVE. When Anne Woodford began to wake from the constant thought of the grief and horror she had left at Portchester, and to feel more alive to her surroundings and less as if they were a kind of dream, in which she only mechanically took her part, one thing impressed itself on her gra...	{ "id": "12449" }
18	HALLOWMAS EVE	"This more strange Than such a murder is." Macbeth. "Bambino mio, bambino mio," wailed Mary Beatrice, as she pressed her child to her bosom, and murmured to him in her native tongue. "And did they say he was not his mother's son, his poor mother, whose dearest treasure he is! Oime, crudeli, crudelissimi! Even his s...	{ "id": "12449" }
19	THE DAUGHTER'S SECRET	"Thy sister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, _here_: I can scarce speak to thee." King Lear. "Am I--oh! am I going home?" thought Anne. "My uncle will be at Winchester. I am glad of it. I could not yet bear to see Portchester again. That Shape would be there. Yet how shall...	{ "id": "12449" }
20	THE FLIGHT	"Storms may rush in, and crimes and woes Deform that peaceful bower; They may not mar the deep repose Of that immortal flower. Though only broken hearts be found To watch his cradle by, No blight is on his slumbers sound, No touch of harmful eye." KEBLE. The news was even worse and worse in that palace ...	{ "id": "12449" }
21	EXILE	"'Oh, who are ye, young man?' she said. 'What country come ye frae?' 'I flew across the sea,' he said; ''Twas but this very day.'" Old Ballad. Five months had passed away since the midnight flight from England, when Anne Woodford was sitting on a stone bench flanked with statues in the stately gardens of the Palace...	{ "id": "12449" }
22	REVENANTS	"But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again! I'll cross it, though it blast me." Hamlet. Floods of tears were shed at the departure of the two young officers of sixteen and seventeen. The sobs of the household made the English party feel very glad when it was over and the cavalcade was in motion. A cavalcade it was...	{ "id": "12449" }
23	FRENCH LEAVE	"When ye gang awa, Jamie, Far across the sea, laddie, When ye gang to Germanie What will ye send to me, laddie?" Huntingtower. Fides was the posy on the ring. That was all Anne could discover, and indeed only this much with the morning light of the July sun that penetrated the remotest corners. For the cabin ...	{ "id": "12449" }
24	IN THE MOONLIGHT	I have had a dream this evening, While the white and gold were fleeting, But I need not, need not tell it. Where would be the good? Requiescat in Pace. --JEAN INGELOW. Anne Woodford sat, on a sultry summer night, by the open window in Archfield House at Fareham, busily engaged over the tail of a kite, while asleep ...	{ "id": "12449" }
25	TIDINGS FROM THE IRON GATES	"He has more cause to be proud. Where is he wounded?" Coriolanus. It was a wet autumn day, when the yellow leaves of the poplars in front of the house were floating down amid the misty rain; Dr. Woodford had gone two days before to consult a book in the Cathedral library, and was probably detained at Winchester by ...	{ "id": "12449" }
26	THE LEGEND OF PENNY GRIM	"O dearest Marjorie, stay at hame, For dark's the gate ye have to go, For there's a maike down yonder glen Hath frightened me and many me." HOGG. "Nana," said little Philip in a meditative voice, as he looked into the glowing embers of the hall fire, "when do fairies leave off stealing little boys?" "I do n...	{ "id": "12449" }
27	THE VAULT	"Heaven awards the vengeance due." COWPER. The weary days had begun to lengthen before the door of the hall was flung open, and little Phil, forgetting his bow at the door, rushed in, "Here's a big packet from foreign parts! Harry had to pay ever so much for it." "I have wellnigh left off hoping," sighed the poor...	{ "id": "12449" }
28	THE DISCLOSURE	"He looked about as one betrayed, What hath he done, what promise made? Oh! weak, weak moment, to what end Can such a vain oblation tend?" WORDSWORTH. For the most part Anne was able to hold her peace and keep out of sight while Dr. Woodford related the strange revelations of the vault with all the circumstantialit...	{ "id": "12449" }
29	THE ASSIZE COURT	"O terror! what hath she perceived? O joy, What doth she look on? whom hath she perceived?" WORDSWORTH. Time wore away, and the Lent Assizes at Winchester had come. Sir Philip had procured the best legal assistance for his nephew, but in criminal cases, though the prisoner was allowed the advice of counsel, the onu...	{ "id": "12449" }
30	SENTENCE	"I have hope to live, and am prepared to die." Measure for Measure. Ralph was bidden to be ready to take his young master home early the next morning. At eight o'clock the boy, who had slept with his father, came down the stair, clinging to his father's hand, and Miss Woodford coming closely with him. "Yes," said...	{ "id": "12449" }
31	ELF-LAND	"Three ruffians seized me yestermorn, Alas! a maiden most forlorn; They choked my cries with wicked might, And bound me on a palfrey white." S. T. COLERIDGE. Yet after the night it was with more hope than despondency, Anne, in the February morning, mounted en croupe behind Mr. Fellowes's servant, that being d...	{ "id": "12449" }
32	SEVEN YEARS	"It was between the night and day, When the Fairy King has power, That I sunk down in a sinful fray, And 'twixt life and death was snatched away To the joyless Elfin bower." SCOTT. This motto was almost the account that the twisted figure, with queer contortions of face, yet delicate feet and hands, and daint...	{ "id": "12449" }
33	BLACK GANG CHINE	"Come, Lady; while Heaven lends us grace, Let us fly this cursed place, Lest the sorcerer us entice With some other new device. Not a word or needless sound Till we come to holier ground. I shall be your faithful guide Through this gloomy covert wide." MILTON. Never was maiden in a worse position than that in which...	{ "id": "12449" }
34	LIFE FOR LIFE	"Follow Light, and do the Right--for man can half-control his doom-- Till you find the deathless Angel seated in the vacant tomb. Forward, let the stormy moment fly and mingle with the Past. I that loathed, have come to love him. Love will conquer at the last." TENNYSON. On they had gone in silence for the most p...	{ "id": "12449" }
1	None	There is a pleasant villa on the southern bank of the James River, a few miles below the city of Richmond. The family mansion, an old fashioned building of white stone, surrounded by a spacious veranda, and embowered among stately elms and grave old oaks, is sure to attract the attention of the traveller by its picture...	{ "id": "12452" }
2	None	Early in the fresh April morning, the party at Riverside manor were congregated in the hall, doing full justice to Aunt Nancy's substantial breakfast. "Oriana," said Beverly, as he paused from demolishing a well-buttered batter cake, and handed his cup for a second supply of the fragrant Mocha, "I will leave it to yo...	{ "id": "12452" }
3	None	The incident related in the preceding chapter seemed to have effected a marked change in the demeanor of Oriana toward her brother's guest. She realized with painful force the wrong that her thoughtlessness, more than her malice, had inflicted on a noble character, and it required all of Arthur's winning sweetness of d...	{ "id": "12452" }
4	None	Oriana, after awaiting till a late hour the return of her brother and his friend, had retired to rest, and was sleeping soundly when the party entered the house, after their remarkable adventure. She was therefore unconscious, upon descending from her apartment in the morning, of the addition to her little household. S...	{ "id": "12452" }
5	None	There was no remedy but to cross the woodland and cornfields that for about a league intervened between their position and the highway. They commenced the tedious tramp, Arthur and Harold exerting themselves to the utmost to protect Oriana from the brambles, and to guide her footsteps along the uneven ground and among ...	{ "id": "12452" }
6	None	"It's my hound. Miss Weems, and I guess he's on the track of that nigger, Jim." Oriana started as if stung by a serpent, and rising to her feet, looked upon the man with such an expression of contempt and loathing that the ruffian's brow grew black with anger as he returned her gaze. Harold confronted him, and spoke ...	{ "id": "12452" }
7	None	Several gentlemen of the neighborhood, whom Beverly, upon hearing little Phil's story, had hastily summoned to his assistance, now entered the cabin, together with the male negroes of his household, who had mounted the farm horses and eagerly followed to the rescue of their young mistress. They had been detained withou...	{ "id": "12452" }
8	None	During the four succeeding days, the house hold at Riverside manor were much alarmed for Arthur's safety, for a violent fever had ensued, and, to judge from the physician's evasive answers, the event was doubtful. The family were unremitting in their attentions, and Oriana, quietly, but with her characteristic self-wil...	{ "id": "12452" }
9	None	The following morning was warm and springlike, and Arthur was sufficiently strong and well to walk out a little in the open air. He had been seated upon the veranda conversing with Beverly and Harold, when the latter proposed a stroll with Beverly, with whom he wished to converse in relation to his proposed marriage. A...	{ "id": "12452" }
10	None	In the drawing-room of an elegant mansion in a fashionable quarter of the city of New York, toward the close of April, a social party were assembled, distributed mostly in small conversational groups. The head of the establishment, a pompous, well-to-do merchant, stout, short, and baldheaded, and evidently well satisfi...	{ "id": "12452" }
11	None	"Well, Arthur," said Harold Hare, entering the room of the former at his hotel, on the following evening, "I have come to bid you good bye. I start for home to-morrow morning," he added, in reply to Arthur's questioning glance. "I am to have a company of Providence boys in my old friend Colonel R----'s regiment. And af...	{ "id": "12452" }
12	None	The evening was somewhat advanced, but Arthur determined at once to seek an interview with Miss Ayleff. Hastily arranging his toilet, he walked briskly up Broadway, revolving in his mind a fit course for fulfilling his delicate errand. To shorten his way, he turned into a cross street in the upper part of the city. A...	{ "id": "12452" }
13	None	Arthur heaved an involuntary sigh, as he gazed upon those sad wrecks of womanhood, striving to harden their sense of degradation by its impudent display. But an expression of bewildered and sorrowful surprise suddenly overspread his countenance. Seated alone upon a cushioned stool, at the chimney-corner, was a young wo...	{ "id": "12452" }
14	None	Arthur felt ill and much fatigued when he retired to rest, and was restless and disturbed with fever throughout the night. He had overtasked his delicate frame, yet scarce recovered from the effects of recent suffering, and he arose in the morning with a feeling of prostration that he could with difficulty overcome. Ho...	{ "id": "12452" }
15	None	In the upper apartment of a cottage standing alone by the roadside on the outskirts of Boston, Miranda, pale and dejected, sat gazing vacantly at the light of the solitary lamp that lit the room. The clock was striking midnight, and the driving rain beat dismally against the window-blinds. But one month had passed sinc...	{ "id": "12452" }
16	None	When Miranda awakened from her swoon, the lamp was burning dimly, and the first light of dawn came faintly through the blinds. All was still around her, and for some moments she could not recall the terrible scene which had passed before her eyes. Presently her fingers came in contact with the clots of gore that were t...	{ "id": "12452" }
17	None	The night after the unhappy circumstance we have related, in the bar-room of a Broadway hotel, in New York city, a colonel of volunteers, moustached and uniformed, and evidently in a very unmilitary condition of unsteadiness, was entertaining a group of convivial acquaintances, with bacchanalian exercises and martian g...	{ "id": "12452" }
18	None	We will let thirty days pass on, and bear the reader South of the Potomac, beyond the Federal lines and within rifle-shot of an advanced picket of the Confederate army, under General Beauregard. It was a dismal night--the 16th of July. The rain fell heavily and the wind moaned and shrieked through the lone forests like...	{ "id": "12452" }
19	None	Toward dusk of the same day, while Philip and his lieutenant were seated at the rude pine table, conversing after their evening meal, the sergeant of the guard entered with a slip of paper, on which was traced a line in pencil. "Is the bearer below?" asked Philip, as he cast his eyes over the paper. "Yes, sir. He w...	{ "id": "12452" }

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