Guy Deverell. Volume 1 of 2
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Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan. Guy Deverell. Volume 1 of 2
CHAPTER I. Sir Jekyl Marlowe at the Plough Inn
CHAPTER II. The Baronet Visits Wardlock Manor
CHAPTER III. Concerning two Remarkable Persons who appeared in Wardlock Church
CHAPTER IV. The Green Chamber at Marlowe
CHAPTER V. Sir Jekyl bethinks him of Pelter and Crowe
CHAPTER VI. Sir Jekyl's Room is Visited
CHAPTER VII. The Baronet Pursues
CHAPTER VIII. The House begins to Fill
CHAPTER IX. Dinner
CHAPTER X. Inquiries have been made by Messrs, Pelter and Crowe
CHAPTER XI. Old Gryston Bridge
CHAPTER XII. The Strangers appear again
CHAPTER XIII. In the Drawing-Room
CHAPTER XIV. Music
CHAPTER XV. M. Varbarriere converses with his Nephew
CHAPTER XVI. Containing a Variety of Things
CHAPTER XVII. The Magician Draws a Diagram
CHAPTER XVIII. Another Guest Prepares to Come
CHAPTER XIX. Lady Alice takes Possession
CHAPTER XX. An Altercation
CHAPTER XXI. Lady Alice in Bed
CHAPTER XXII. How Everything went on
CHAPTER XXIII. The Divan
CHAPTER XXIV. Guy Strangways and M. Varbarriere converse
CHAPTER XXV. Lady Alice talks with Guy Strangways
CHAPTER XXVI. Some Talk of a Survey of the Green Chamber
CHAPTER XXVII. M. Varbarriere talks a little more freely
CHAPTER XXVIII. Some private Talk of Varbarriere and Lady Alice at the Dinner-table
CHAPTER XXIX. The Ladies and Gentlemen resume Conversation in the Drawing-room
CHAPTER XXX. Varbarriere picks up something about Donica Gwynn
CHAPTER XXXI. Lady Jane puts on her Brilliants
CHAPTER XXXII. Conciliation
CHAPTER XXXIII. Lady Jane and Beatrix play at Croquet
CHAPTER XXXIV. General Lennox receives a Letter
CHAPTER XXXV. The Bishop at Marlowe
CHAPTER XXXVI. Old Scenes recalled
CHAPTER XXXVII. In which Lady Alice pumps the Bishop
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In fact Sir Jekyl would have been puzzled to know exactly what to say next, so odd were his sensations, and his mind so pre-occupied with a chain of extremely uncomfortable conjecture, had not the handsome young gentleman who stood beside him at the gaping window with its melancholy folds of ivy, said —
"I have often tried to analyse the peculiar interest of ruins like these – the mixture of melancholy and curiosity. I have seen very many monasteries abroad – perhaps as old as this, even older – still peopled with their monks, with very little interest indeed, and no sympathy; and yet here I feel a yearning after the bygone age of English monasticism, an anxiety to learn all about their ways and doings, and a sort of reverence and sadness I can't account for, unless it be an expression of that profound sympathy which mortals feel with every expression of decay and dissolution."
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"Pretty well, this girl, hey?"
"I dare say, Jekyl, she'll do very well; she's not formed yet, you know," – was stately Lady Alice's qualified assent. She was one of that school who are more afraid of spoiling people than desirous of pleasing them by admiration. "She promises to be like her darling mother; and that is a melancholy satisfaction to me, and, of course, to you. You'll have some tea, Jekyl?"
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