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Edmund Yates. Wrecked in Port
Wrecked in Port
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. MORIBUND
CHAPTER II. RETROSPECTIVE
CHAPTER III. MARIAN
CHAPTER IV. MARIAN'S CHOICE
CHAPTER V. WOOLGREAVES
CHAPTER VI. BREAD-SEEKING
CHAPTER VII. A NEW FRIEND
CHAPTER VIII. FLITTING
CHAPTER IX. THE TENTH EARL
CHAPTER X. AN INTERIOR
CHAPTER XI. THE LOUT
CHAPTER XII. A REMOVAL
CHAPTER XIII. LIFE AT WESTHOPE
CHAPTER XV "NEWS FROM THE HUMMING CITY."
CHAPTER XVI "HE LOVES ME; HE LOVES ME NOT."
CHAPTER XVII. BECOMING INDISPENSABLE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RUBICON
CHAPTER XIX. MARIAN'S REPLY
CHAPTER XX. DURING THE INTERVAL
CHAPTER XXI. SUCCESS ACHIEVED
CHAPTER XXII. THE GIRLS THEY LEFT BEHIND THEM
CHAPTER XXIII. WEDNESDAY'S POST
CHAPTER XXIV. POOR PAPA'S SUCCESSOR
CHAPTER XXV. CLOUDING OVER
CHAPTER XXVI. IN HARNESS
CHAPTER XXVII. RIDING AT ANCHOR
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE OPPORTUNITY
CHAPTER XXIX. CANVASSING
CHAPTER XXX. BAFFLED
CHAPTER XXXI. AN INCOMPLETE VICTORY
CHAPTER XXXII. THE SHATTERING OF THE IDOL
CHAPTER XXXIII. TOO LATE
CHAPTER XXXIV. FOR ONCE GERTRUDE TAKES THE LEAD
CHAPTER XXXV. LADY CAROLINE ADVISES ON A DELICATE SUBJECT
CHAPTER XXXVI. NIGHT AND MORNING
CHAPTER XXXVII. MARIAN'S RESOLVE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE RESULT
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Edmund Yates
A Novel
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But that was a matter which Marian had already decided upon.
At a time when it seemed as though the unchildlike qualities which had distinguished the child from her playmates and coevals were intensifying and maturing in the girl growing up, then, to all appearance, hard, calculating, and mercenary, Marian Ashurst fell in love, and thenceforward the whole current of her being was diverted into healthier and more natural channels. Fell in love is the right and the only description of the process so far as Marian was concerned. Of course she had frequently discussed the great question which racks the hearts of boarding-school misses, and helps to fill up the spare time of middle-aged women, with her young companions, had listened with outward calmness and propriety, but with an enormous amount of unshown cynicism, to their simple gushings, and had said sufficient to lead them to believe that she joined in their fervent admiration of and aspiration for young men with black eyes and white hands, straight noses and curly hair. But all the time Marian was building for herself a castle in the air, the proprietor of which, whose wife she intended to be, was a very different person from the hairdressers' dummies whose regularity of feature caused the hearts of her companions to palpitate. The personal appearance of her future husband had never given her an instant's care; she had no preference in the colour of his eyes or hair, in his height, style, or even of his age, except she thought she would rather he were old. Being old, he was more likely to be generous, less likely to be selfish, more likely to have amassed riches and to be wealthy. His fortune would be made, not to be made; there would be no struggling, no self-denial, no hope required. Marian's domestic experiences caused her to hate anything in which hope was required; she had been dosed with hope without the smallest improvement, and had lost faith in the treatment. Marriage was the one chance possible for her to carry out the dearest, most deeply implanted, longest-cherished aspiration of her heart--the acquisition of money and power. She knew that the possession of the one led to the other; from the time when she had saved her schoolgirl pennies and had noticed the court paid to her by her little friends, to the then moment when the mere fact of her having a small stock of ready money, even more than her sense and shrewdness, gave her position in that impecunious household, she had recognised the impossibility of achieving even a semblance of happiness in poverty. When she married, it should be for money, and for money alone. In the hard school of life in which she had been trained she had learned that the prize she was aiming at was a great one, and one difficult to be obtained; but that knowledge only made her the more determined in its pursuit. The difficulties around her were immense; in the narrow circle in which she lived she had not any present chances of meeting with any person likely to be able to give her the position which she sought, far less of rendering him subservient to her wishes. But she waited and hoped; she was waiting and hoping, calmly and quietly fulfilling the ordinary duties of her very ordinary life, but never losing sight of her fixed intent. Then across the path of her life there came a man who seemed to give promise of eventually fulfilling the requirements she had planned out for herself. It was but a promise; there was nothing tangible; but the promise was so good, and the girl's heart yearned for an occupant, for, with all its hard teaching and its worldly aspirations, it was but human after all. So her human heart and her worldly wisdom come to a compromise in the matter of her acceptance of a lover, and the result of that compromise was her engagement to Walter Joyce.
