The Hillyars and the Burtons

The Hillyars and the Burtons
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Henry Kingsley. The Hillyars and the Burtons

The Hillyars and the Burtons

Table of Contents

Chapter I. Mr. Secretary Oxton Thinks Gerty Neville Little Better than a Fool

Chapter II. James Burton's Story: shows the Disgraceful Lowness of his Origin

Chapter III. James Burton's Story: Cousin Reuben

Chapter IV. The Colonial Secretary Sees Snakes and Other Vermin

Chapter V. James Burtons Story: The Ghosts Room is Invaded, and James puts his Foot Through the Floor

Chapter VI. James Burton's Story: The Preliminaries to the Momentous Expedition to Stanlake

Chapter VII. The Battle of Barker's Gap

Chapter VIII. James Burton's Story: The Immediate Results of the Expedition to Stanlake

Chapter IX. Sir George Hillyar

Chapter X. Erne Makes his Escape from the Brazen Tower

Chapter XI. The Secretary Sees Nothing for it But to Submit

Chapter XII. Disposes of Samuel Burton for a Time

Chapter XIII. James Burton's Story: The Golden Thread Begins to Run off the Reel

Chapter XIV. The Gleam of the Autumn Sunset

Chapter XV. In Which the Snake Creeps out of the Grass

Chapter XVI. James Burton's Story: Erne and Emma

Chapter XVII. Erne and Reuben

Chapter XVIII. James Burton's Story: Reuben and Sir George Hillyar

Chapter XIX. Samuel Burton goes into the Licensed Victualling Line

Chapter XX. James Burton's Story: Reuben Entertains Mysterious and Unsatisfactory Company

Chapter XXI. Gerty Goes on the War-Trail

Chapter XXII. James Burton's Story: Very Low Company

Chapter XXIII. James Burton's Story: The Hillyars and the Burtons Among the Tombs

Chapter XXIV. Homeward Bound

Chapter XXV. Gerty's First Innings

Chapter XXVI. James Burton's Story: James and his Sister Fall Out

Chapter XXVII. James Burton's Story: The Ghost Shows a Light for the First Time

Chapter XXVIII. Affairs at Stanlake

Chapter XXIX. James Burton's Story: The Beginning of the Bad Times

Chapter XXX. James Burton's Story: In Which Two Great Pieces of Good Fortune Befall us,--one Visible, The Other Invisible

Chapter XXXI. George Begins to Take A New Interest in Beuben

Chapter XXXII. Gerty's Hybernation Terminates

Chapter XXXIII. J. Burton's Story: the Ghost Shows A Light for the Second Time

Chapter XXXIV. Sir George's Escritoire

Chapter XXXV. James Burton's Story: Miss Brown's Troubles Come to an End, While Mr. Erne Hillyar's Fairly Commence

Chapter XXXVI. Le Roi Est Mort,--vive Le Roi

Chapter XXXVII. James Burton's Story: Erne's Nurse

Chapter XXXVIII. Sir George Hillyar Is Witness for Character

Chapter XXXIX. Uncle Bob Surprises Erne

Chapter XL. The Last of the Church-Yard

Chapter XLI. Emma's Work Begins to be Cut out for Her

Chapter XLII. Emma Astonishes A Good Many People: The Members of Her Family in Particular

Chapter XLIII. Emma Gives the Key to the Landlord

Chapter XLIV. James Burton's Story: Our Voyage, with a Long Description of Some Queer Fish that we Saw

Chapter XLV. Gerty in Society

Chapter XLVI. The letter, Which was not From Mrs. Nalder

Chapter XLVII. Sir George Hillyar Starts on his Adventure

Chapter XLVIII. James Burton's Story: The Forge is Lit up Once More

Chapter XLIX. In which Two bad Pennies Come Back

Chapter L. Trevittick's Latent Madness Begins to Appear

Chapter LI. Changes in the Romilly Home

Chapter LII. Feeds the Boar at the Old Frank?

Chapter LIII. James Burton's Story: The Clayton Ménage

Chapter LIV. Emma's Visit

Chapter LV. The Land Sale

Chapter LVI. The Burnt Hut Company

Chapter LVII. The Last of the Forge

Chapter LVIII. Erne Goes on his Adventures

Chapter LIX. James Oxton Goes Out, and Widow North Comes in

Chapter LX. Too Late! Too Late!

Chapter LXI. Husband and Wife

Chapter LXII. Gerty's Anabasis

Chapter LXIII. Samuel Burton Gets A Fright

Chapter LXIV. Samuel Burton's Resolution

Chapter LXV. Ex-Secretary Oxton Gets A Lesson

Chapter LXVI. Something To Do

Chapter LXVII. The Backstairs History of Two Great Coalitions

Chapter LXVIII. Samuel Burton Makes His Last Visit to Stanlake

Chapter LXIX. Sir George and Samuel Close their

Chapter LXX. Reuben's Temptation

Chapter LXXI. James Burton's Story

Chapter LXXII. The Omeo Disaster

Chapter LXXIII. The Midnight Meeting

Chapter LXXIV. The Sky Brightening

Chapter LXXV. Emma's Angelic Ministrations

Chapter LXXVI. James Burton's Story: Captain Arkwright Goes Back Once More

Chapter LXXVII. The Cyclone

Chapter LXXVIII. James Burton's Story: No Answer

Chapter LXXIX. Conclusion

THE END

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Henry Kingsley

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"Now, Aggy! Now, who was right? Was not I wiser than you, my sister? My noble hero! Two to one, Agnes, and he is so calm and modest about it. Why, James and you were blind. Did not I see what he was; am I a fool?"

Mrs. Oxton was very much inclined to think she was. She was puzzled by this undoubted act of valor on George Hillyar's part. She had very good sense of her own, and the most profound belief in one of the cleverest men in the world,--her husband. Her husband's distrust of the man had reacted on her; so, in the midst of Gerty's wild enthusiasm, she could only hope that things would go right, though she tried to be enthusiastic for Gerty's sake.

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