Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
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Yonge Charlotte Mary. Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
CHAPTER I. A SYLLABUB PARTY
CHAPTER II. THE HOUSE OF DELAVIE
CHAPTER III. AMONG THE COWSLIPS
CHAPTER IV. MY LADY’S MISSIVE
CHAPTER V. THE SUMMONS
CHAPTER VI. DISAPPOINTED LOVE
CHAPTER VII. ALL ALONE
CHAPTER VIII. THE ENCHANTED CASTLE
CHAPTER IX. THE TRIAD
CHAPTER X. THE DARK CHAMBER
CHAPTER XI. A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE
CHAPTER XII. THE SHAFTS OF PHOEBE
CHAPTER XIII. THE FLUTTER OF HIS WINGS
CHAPTER XIV. THE CANON OF WINDSOR
CHAPTER XV. THE QUEEN OF BEAUTY
CHAPTER XVI. AUGURIES
CHAPTER XVII. THE VICTIM DEMANDED
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PROPOSAL
CHAPTER XIX. WOOING IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XX. THE MUFFLED BRIDEGROOM
CHAPTER XXI. THE SISTERS’ MEETING
CHAPTER XXII. A FATAL SPARK
CHAPTER XXIII. WRATH AND DESOLATION
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WANDERER
CHAPTER XXV. VANISHED
CHAPTER XXVI. THE TRACES
CHAPTER XXVII. CYTHEREA’S BOWER
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ROUT
CHAPTER XXIX. A BLACK BLONDEL
CHAPTER XXX. THE FIRST TASK
CHAPTER XXXI. THE SECOND TASK
CHAPTER XXXII. LIONS
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE COSMETIC
CHAPTER XXXIV. DOWN THE RIVER
CHAPTER XXXV. THE RETURN
CHAPTER XXXVI. WAKING
CHAPTER XXXVII. MAKING THE BEST OF IT
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If times differ, human nature and national character vary but little; and thus, in looking back on former times, we are by turns startled by what is curiously like, and curiously unlike, our own sayings and doings.
The feelings of a retired officer of the nineteenth century expecting the return of his daughters from the first gaiety of the youngest darling, are probably not dissimilar to those of Major Delavie, in the earlier half of the seventeen hundreds, as he sat in the deep bay window of his bed-room; though he wore a green velvet nightcap; and his whole provision of mental food consisted of half a dozen worn numbers of the Tatler, and a Gazette a fortnight old. The chair on which he sat was elbowed, and made easy with cushions and pillows, but that on which his lame foot rested was stiff and angular. The cushion was exquisitely worked in chain-stich, as were the quilt and curtains of the great four-post bed, and the only carpeting consisted of three or four narrow strips of wool-work. The walls were plain plaster, white-washed, and wholly undecorated, except that the mantelpiece was carved with the hideous caryatides of the early Stewart days, and over it were suspended a long cavalry sabre, and the accompanying spurs and pistols; above them the miniature of an exquisitely lovely woman, with a white rose in her hair and a white favour on her breast.
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“Yes, the child is not to blame,” said Betty; “I left her in charge of Mrs. Churchill while I went to wash my hands after milking the cow, which these fine folk seemed to suppose could be done without soiling a finger.”
“That’s the way with Chloe and Phyllida in Arcadia,” said her father.
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