A Life's Morning
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George Gissing. A Life's Morning
CHAPTER I. AN UNDERGRADUATE AT LEISURE
CHAPTER II. BEATRICE REDWING
CHAPTER III. LYRICAL
CHAPTER IV. A CONFLICT OF OPINIONS
CHAPTER V. THE SHADOW OF HOME
CHAPTER VI. A VISITOR BY EXPRESS
CHAPTER VII. ON THE LEVELS
CHAPTER VIII. A STERNER WOOING
CHAPTER IX. CIRCUMSTANCE
CHAPTER X. AT THE SWORD'S POINT
CHAPTER XI. EMILY'S DECISION
CHAPTER XII. THE FINAL INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XIII. THE CUTTING OF THE KNOT
CHAPTER XIV. NEWS AND COMMENTS
CHAPTER XV. MRS. BAXENDALE'S QUESTS
CHAPTER XVI. RENUNCIATION
CHAPTER XVII. THEIR SEVERAL WAYS
CHAPTER XVIII. A COMPACT
CHAPTER XIX. THE COMPLETION OF MISCHANCE
CHAPTER XX. WILFRID THE LEGISLATOR
CHAPTER XXI. DANGEROUS RELICS
CHAPTER XXII. HER PATH IN THE SHADOW
CHAPTER XXIII. HER PATH IN THE LIGHT
CHAPTER XXIV. THE UNEXPECTED
CHAPTER XXV. A FAMILY CONCLAVE
CHAPTER XXVI. MID-DAY
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Midway in breakfast next morning, at a moment when Mrs. Rossall was describing certain originalities of drawing-room decoration observed on the previous day at a house in town, the half-open door admitted a young lady who had time to glance round the assembled family before her presence was observed. In appearance she was very interesting. The tints of her fine complexion were warmed by exercise in the morning air, and her dark eyes brightened by pleasurable excitement; she carried her hat in her hand, and seemed to have been walking bare-headed, for there were signs of wind-play in her abundant black hair. But neither face nor attire suggested rusticity: the former was handsome, spirited, with a hint of uncommon things in its changeful radiance; the latter was the result of perfect taste choosing at will among the season's costumes. At her throat were fastened two blossoms of wild rose, with the dew still on them, and the hand which held her lace-trimmed sunshade carried also a spray of meadow-sweet.
Mr. Athel, looking up from the end of the table, was the first to perceive her.
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'Are your lessons over?' she asked, passing at once into full consciousness, without sign of having slept.
The child replied that they were.
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