By Birth a Lady

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Fenn George Manville. By Birth a Lady

Volume One – Chapter One. Something about a Letter

Volume One – Chapter Two “Bai Jove!”

Volume One – Chapter Three. Blandfield Court

Volume One – Chapter Four. Concerning Matrimony

Volume One – Chapter Five. Charley’s encounters

Volume One – Chapter Six. A Second Meeting

Volume One – Chapter Seven. A Dawning Sense

Volume One – Chapter Eight. Shooting an Arrow

Volume One – Chapter Nine. An Unexpected Protector

Volume One – Chapter Ten. Ella’s Comforter

Volume One – Chapter Eleven. Croquet and Roquet

Volume One – Chapter Twelve. Cross Upon Cross

Volume One – Chapter Thirteen. The Clearing of a Doubt

Volume One – Chapter Fourteen. A Family Party

Volume One – Chapter Fifteen. Charley’s Fête

Volume One – Chapter Sixteen. The Echoes of Charley’s Declaration

Volume One – Chapter Seventeen. A Vial of Wrath

Volume One – Chapter Eighteen. Analysis of the Heart

Volume One – Chapter Nineteen. The Making of a Compact

Volume One – Chapter Twenty. Ella’s Resolve

Volume Two – Chapter One. Clouds at the Court

Volume Two – Chapter Two. Nelly a Correspondent

Volume Two – Chapter Three. Reversed Proceedings

Volume Two – Chapter Four. The “Candlestine” Interview

Volume Two – Chapter Five. Mr Maximilian Beginneth to Show his hand

Volume Two – Chapter Six. The New Home

Volume Two – Chapter Seven. Mrs Brandon’s Receptions

Volume Two – Chapter Eight. Mrs Brandon’s Receptions: First Visitor

Volume Two – Chapter Nine. Mrs Brandon’s Receptions: Second Visitor

Volume Two – Chapter Ten. Mrs Brandon’s Receptions: Third Visitor

Volume Two – Chapter Eleven. Kitchen Canvassing

Volume Two – Chapter Twelve. More Passion and Little Progress

Volume Two – Chapter Thirteen. For Another Campaign

Volume Two – Chapter Fourteen. A New Home

Volume Two – Chapter Fifteen. The Young Ladies

Volume Two – Chapter Sixteen. Change of Scene

Volume Two – Chapter Seventeen. Private-Inquiry

Volume Two – Chapter Eighteen. Second-Hand

Volume Two – Chapter Nineteen. At Crescent Villas

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty. A Rival Encounter

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty One (-? – )

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Two. Accident or Design?

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Three. Nelly’s Confidence

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Four. Mr Whittrick Again

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Five. Coming Round

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Six. Trembling

Volume Three – Chapter One. In the Balance

Volume Three – Chapter Two. The Weighing

Volume Three – Chapter Three. Beginning Again

Volume Three – Chapter Four. Of What are Men’s hearts Composed?

Volume Three – Chapter Five. Preparing the Rivets

Volume Three – Chapter Six. Had She Won?

Volume Three – Chapter Seven. On the Point

Volume Three – Chapter Eight. Was it an Accident?

Volume Three – Chapter Nine. Resignation

Volume Three – Chapter Ten. Not by Post

Volume Three – Chapter Eleven. In Chase

Volume Three – Chapter Twelve. Going Back

Volume Three – Chapter Thirteen. Rather Close

Volume Three – Chapter Fourteen. The Bearer of Tidings

Volume Three – Chapter Fifteen. Hovering round the Snare

Volume Three – Chapter Sixteen. In the Gin of the Fowler

Volume Three – Chapter Seventeen. Aid Where Unexpected

Volume Three – Chapter Eighteen. An Overtaxed Brain

Volume Three – Chapter Nineteen. The Net Breaks

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty. The Bird Flies

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty One. The Copse-Hall Ghost

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Two. Light! – and Darkness?

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Three. It Never Rains but it Pours

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Four. Sleep or Death?

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Five. Hope Rises

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Six. At Last

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Seven. The Reward of Merit – Bai Jove!

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Eight. Home

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Three months after the incidents recorded in the last chapter, Littleborough Station, on the Great Middleland and Conjunction Railway, woke into life; for it was nearly noon, and the mid-day up-train would soon run alongside of the platform, stay for the space of half a minute, and then proceed again on its hurrying, panting course towards the great metropolis; for though such a thing did sometimes happen, the taking up or setting down of passengers at Littleborough was not as a matter of course. Nobody ever wanted to come to Littleborough, which was three miles from the station, and very few people ever seemed to take tickets from Littleborough to proceed elsewhere: the consequence being that the station-master – a fair young man with budding whiskers, and a little cotton-woolly moustache – spent the greater part of his time in teaching a rough dog to stand upon his hind-legs, to walk, beg, smoke pipes, and perform various other highly interesting feats, while the one porter spent his in yawning and playing “push halfpenny,” right hand against left – a species of gambling that left him neither richer nor poorer at the day’s end. But his yawning was something frightful, being extensive enough to have startled a child into the belief that ogres really had an existence in the flesh, though the said porter was after all but a simple, lazy, ignorant boor, with as little of harm in his nature as there was of activity.

But, as before said, Littleborough Station now woke into life; for after crawling into the booking-office, and yawing frightfully at the clock, the porter went and turned a handle, altering the position of a signal, and then returned to find the station-master framed in the little doorway through which he issued tickets, and now pitching little bits of biscuit for the dog to catch.

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“But you see she is not your sister; and you are making a fool of yourself,” drawled the other contemptuously.

“Am I?” exclaimed the young man, whose better nature was aroused. “I consider that every lady who is being insulted is the sister of an Englishman, and has a right to his help. And now be off out of this office, for I’m master here; and you may report me if you like, for I don’t care who you are, nor yet if I lose my place.”

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