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Tales and Novels Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Tales and Novels novel. A total of 626 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Tales And Novels.Volume 1.by Maria Edgeworth.PREFACE.It has been somewhere said by Johns
Tales And Novels.Volume 1.by Maria Edgeworth.PREFACE.It has been somewhere said by Johnson, that merely to invent a story is no small effort of the human understanding. How much more difficult is it to construct stories suited to the early years of youth,
- 226 Every instance that she could hear of the former Lady Glenthorn's extravagance or of mine--and, alas! there were many upon record, she determined to exceed. Her diamonds, and her pearls, and her finery, surpa.s.sed every thing but the extravagance of
- 225 I had the pleasure to perceive that Cecilia Delamere did not find me a fool. I never, even in the presence of Lady Geraldine, exerted myself so much to avoid this disgrace.After all the company, except Mrs. and Miss Delamere, were gone, Lord Y---- called
- 224 "Lack! sir, you'll burn your boots," said my careful landlady; who, after bidding me good night, put her head back into the room, to beg I would be sure to rake the fire, and throw up the ashes safe, before I went to bed. Left to my own med
- 223 The next day, on returning it to me, he observed, that it was making very little of him to put down only such a trifle; and he pressed me to make the hundreds thousands:--this I refused."But I hope your honour won't object to what I am going to
- 222 "How should you feel if you were master of this great castle?""It's a poor figure I should make, to be sure," said he, turning his head over his shoulder towards the door, and resting upon the lock: "I'd rather be at the
- 221 "No, you shall not raise me," cried she. "Here let me lie, and break my heart with your cruelty! 'Tis a judgment upon me--it's a judgment, and it's fit I should feel it as I do. But you shall feel too, in spite of your hard h
- 220 Christy a.s.sured us that there were but thirteen at this meeting, but that they said there were three hundred ready to join them."You were a very bold fellow, Christy," said I, "to hazard yourself in the cave with these villains; if you ha
- 219 The cold ungracious integrity of this man, even in my own cause, at once excited my spleen and commanded my respect. After shaking my leg, as I sat for two minutes in silence, I called after M'Leod, who moved towards the door, "Why, what can I d
- 218 "True for ye," pursued Christy; "I wouldn't for the best cow ever I see that your honour ever larnt a sentence about me or my arm; and it is not for such as we to be minding every little accident--so G.o.d lend you long life, and don&#
- 217 "Only a cloud," said Lady Geraldine--"it will blow over."I became more pa.s.sionate--I did not know the force of my own feelings, till they met with an obstacle; they suddenly rose to a surprising height."Now, my lord," cried
- 216 CHAPTER XI.To preserve the continuity of my story, and not to fatigue the reader with the journals of my comings and goings from Ormsby Villa to Glenthorn Castle, and from Glenthorn Castle to Ormsby Villa, I must here relate the observations I made, and t
- 215 Lady Geraldine's raillery, like all other things, would, perhaps, soon have become tiresome to me; but that there was infinite variety in her humour. At first I had thought her merely superficial, and intent solely upon her own amus.e.m.e.nt; but I s
- 214 Lady Geraldine's air of disdain towards me was resumed. I did not quite understand. Was it pride? was it coquetry? She certainly blushed deeply, and for the first time that I ever saw her blush, when her mother said, "Your time may come, Geraldi
- 213 O'Connor's gown, Mrs. Lighton's sleeves, and all the necklaces of all the Miss Ormsbys. She has no taste, no judgment; none at all, poor thing! but she can imitate as well as those Chinese painters, who, in their drawings, give you the flow
- 212 Before I can do justice to my part of this quarrel, I must explain the cause of the interest which I took in behalf of the persons aggrieved.During the time that my first hot fit of benevolence was on me, I was riding home one evening after dining with Mr
- 211 "I will make it a better place for you, Ellinor," said I. Far from being eager to obtain promises, she still replied, that "all was good enough for her." I desired that she would come and live with me at the castle, till a better house
- 210 Mr. M'Leod, whom I found reading the newspaper in the breakfast-room, seemed less affected by my presence than any body I had seen since my arrival. He was a hard-featured, strong-built, perpendicular man, with a remarkable quietness of deportment: h
- 209 "It's only a tester or a hog they want, your honour, to give 'em to drink your honour's health," said Paddy."A hog to drink my health?""Ay, that is a thirteen, plase your honour; all as one as an English s.h.i.+llin
- 208 Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well. When the interest of being in danger ceased, I had no other to supply its place. I fancied that I should enjoy my liberty after my divorce; but "even freedom grew tasteless.&
- 207 "Go first myself!" cried Captain Crawley, furiously: "Are you insolent to _me_?""And are not you cru'l to me, and to my child I nursed, that lies all as one as dead before you, and was a good friend to you in his day, no doub
- 206 CHAPTER III."Or realize what we think fabulous, I' th' bill of fare of Eliogabalus."After my marriage, my old malady rose to an insupportable height. The pleasures of the table were all that seemed left to me in life. Most of the young
- 205 TALES OF FAs.h.i.+ONABLE LIFE.Tutta la gente in lieta fronte udiva Le graziose e finte istorielle, Ed difetti altrui tosto scopriva Ciascuno, e non i proprj espressi in quelle; O se de' proprj sospettava, ignoti Credeali a ciascun altro, e a se sol n
- 204 into the pathos of injured innocence.Besides the heart and the weakness of your opponent, you have still another chance, in ruffling his temper; which, in the course of a long conversation, you will have a fair opportunity of trying; and if--for philosoph
- 203 [56] Vide Ill.u.s.trations on Sublimity, in his Essays.[57] The glossary to the Lancas.h.i.+re dialect informs us, that _'lieve me_ comes from _beleemy_, believe me; from _belamy_, my good friend, _old French_.[58] Gawmbling (_Anglo-Saxon_, gawmless)
- 202 Un homme examinoit un dessin representant la coupe d'un vaisseau construit en Hollande; quelqu'un lui dit, "Est-ce que monsieur entend le Hollandois?"Un homme de loi disoit qu'on ne pouvait pas faire une stipulation valable avec u
- 201 "Who? are you drunk, Terence?" said Sir John, opening the door."No, but they are mad--all mad.""Who?""The constable. They are all mad entirely, and the lord mayor, all along with your honour's making me swear I woul
- 200 No mortal could have guessed by Sir John Bull's air, when he heard this question, that he had never seen a candelabra before in his life. He was so much, and yet seemingly so little upon his guard, he dealt so dexterously in generals, and evaded part
- 199 His brother allowed that not the smallest particle of brogue was to be discerned upon Phelim's tongue, but feared that some Irish idiom might be perceived in his conversation. And then the name of O'Mooney!"Oh, as to that, I need not troubl
- 198 _Irishman_.--"Upon my word, I did not think you could have found a match for the mason; but what will you say to my countryman, who, on meeting an acquaintance, accosted him with this ambiguous compliment--'When first I saw you I thought it was
- 197 "It is surprising," said the Englishman, "how ignorant we English in general are of Ireland: to be sure we do not now, as in the times of Bacon and Spenser, believe that wild Irishmen have wings; nor do we all of us give credit, to Mr. Twis
- 196 In anger as well as in sorrow the Irishman is eloquent. A gentleman who was lately riding through the county of ----, in Ireland, to canva.s.s, called to ask a vote from a poor man, who was planting willows in a little garden by the road side."You ha
- 195 "Health and long life to you!" said he. "Give an old man something to help to bury him. He is past his labour, and cannot trouble this world long any way."He held his hat towards us, with nothing importunate in his manner, but rather w
- 194 "Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit.""Her feet on earth, her head amidst the clouds."Up they go, continues our orator._Music! says he--Skulls! says I._ Metaphor continually: on one side of an Irish halfpenny there is a ha
- 193 "The council of war was sitting when I received the honour of your letters. We have unanimously resolved not to surrender the place until we shall have been buried in its ruins," &c.One step further in hyperbole is reserved for him, who, being b
- 192 THE BLISS OF IGNORANCE.No _well-informed_ Englishman would laugh at the blunders of such a character as little Dominick; but there are people who justify the a.s.sertion, that laughter always arises from a sense of real or imaginary superiority. Now if it
- 191 "Then read it loud, you plockit."Dominick read aloud-- "There is _nothing appears so clearly_ an object of the mind or intellect only as _the future_ does, since we can find no place for its existence any where else: not but the same, if we
- 190 But what have we next in our newspaper?--"Murder, Robbery, and Reward."This seems a strange connexion of things, according to our vulgar notions of distributive justice; but we are told that the wicked shall have their _reward_ even in this worl
- 189 "The learned man replied, 'Blockhead, as you are, why then do you say to me what you are now saying?'" [25]Making allowance for the difference of manners in eastern and northern nations, there is, certainly, such a similarity between t
- 188 [8] _Pin_, read _pen_. It formerly was vulgarly p.r.o.nounced _pin_ in Ireland.[9] _Her mark_. It _was_ the custom in Ireland for those who could not write to make a cross to stand for their signature, as was formerly the practice of our English monarchs.
- 187 [S] _Flam_.--Short for flambeau.[T] _Barrack-room_.--Formerly it was customary, in gentlemen's houses in Ireland, to fit up one large bedchamber with a number of beds for the reception of occasional visitors. These rooms were called Barrack-rooms.[U]
- 186 It is a problem of difficult solution to determine, whether an Union will hasten or r.e.t.a.r.d the amelioration of this country. The few gentlemen of education, who now reside in this country, will resort to England: they are few, but they are in nothing
- 185 Tales And Novels.Volume 4.by Maria Edgeworth.PREFACE The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics who aspire to the character of superior wisdom; but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is
- 184 [1] This declaration was taken from the lips of a celebrated character. [2] The manners, if not the morals, of gentlemen, have improved since the first publication of this work. Swearing has gone out of fas.h.i.+on. But Sir Philip Baddelys oaths are retai
- 183 "Dear Mrs. Ormond, what have _you_ done with her?" replied Clarence. "By your mistaken kindness, by insisting upon doing us both good against our wills, you were very near making us both miserable for life. But I blame n.o.body; I have no r
- 182 "Do not leave me--oh, do not leave me in anger!" cried Virginia, clinging to him. "Not trust you!--I!--not trust you! Oh, what _can_ you mean? I have no confessions to make! Mrs. Ormond knows every thought of my mind, and so shall you, if y
- 181 "Take it coolly," said Lady Delacour, "and she will come to her senses presently. Young ladies must shriek and faint upon certain occasions; but men (looking at Clarence Hervey) need not always be dupes. This is only a _scene_; consider it
- 180 "My dear Miss Portman," said she, "you have a great deal of good-nature, else I should not venture to apply to you on the present occasion. Will you oblige me, and serve a friend of mine--a gentleman who, as I once imagined, was an admirer
- 179 "How _against_ me?""They are evidently as applicable to second as to first loves, I think.""Perhaps they are," said Belinda; "but I really and truly am not inclined to think of love at present; particularly as there is n
- 178 "Cannot you, dear Mr. Percival, save me the intolerable shame of confessing my own folly? Spare me this mortification! Be yourself the bearer of this intelligence, and the mediator in my favour.""I will with pleasure," said Mr. Perciva
- 177 Overjoyed at the sight of Mrs. Luttridge's acknowledgment, Vincent repeated his vow never more to hazard himself in her dangerous society.He was impatient to see Belinda; and, full of generous and grateful sentiments, in his first moment of joy, he d
- 176 "Down, Juba!--down, sir!" repeated Mr. Vincent, in a tone of bitter feeling, all his a.s.sumed gaiety forsaking him at this instant: "Down, Juba!--down, sir, down!" as low as your master, thought he; and pus.h.i.+ng back his chair, he
- 175 As he saw no possibility of receding with honour, he, with becoming resolution, desired to urge things forward as fast as possible, and to strengthen in his mind the sense of the _necessity_ of the sacrifice that he was bound to make. His pa.s.sions were
- 174 "Your blessing!--give me your blessing, and then I shall know that you are indeed my father!" cried Virginia, kneeling to him, and looking up with an enthusiastic expression of filial piety in her countenance."G.o.d bless you, my sweet chil
- 173 "I will be calm--only is she alive?""The lady, of whom this is the portrait, is alive," replied Clarence Hervey, who was obliged to exert his utmost command over himself, to maintain that composure which he saw was necessary; "the
- 172 replied Virginia. "I promise nothing but what I am able to perform.""I doubt it," said Mrs. Ormond, shaking her head. "You _are_--you _will_ be perfectly happy. Oh, Virginia, my love, do not deceive yourself; do not deceive us so
- 171 "And my life to a china orange," cried a sailor who was standing by, "he's gone to kingdom come, or more likely to Bedlam, afore this; for he was plaguy crazy in his timbers, and his head wanted righting, I take it, if it was he, Jack,
- 170 "Oh, that you need not a.s.sure me," said Mrs. Ormond."But I do not wish to marry him--I do not wish to marry.""You are a modest girl to say so; and this modesty will make you ten times more amiable, especially in Mr. Hervey'
- 169 "I am very glad that he would not think me ungrateful--but if he knew that I dream of them sometimes?""He would think you dreamed, as all people do, of what they think of in the daytime.""And he would not be angry? I am very glad
- 168 To dissipate his own mind, and to give time for the development of hers, he now, according to his resolution, left his pupil to the care of Mrs.Ormond, and mixed as much as possible in gay and fas.h.i.+onable company. It was at this period that he renewed
- 167 "Seventeen!--is she only seventeen?" cried Clarence, with a mixture of surprise and disappointment in his countenance--"Only seventeen! Why she is but a child still.""Quite a child," said Mrs. Ormond; "and so much the be
- 166 Clarence Hervey's packet contained a history of his connexion with Virginia St. Pierre.To save our hero from the charge of egotism, we shall relate the princ.i.p.al circ.u.mstances in the third person.It was about a year before he had seen Belinda th
- 165 said the dowager: "an amiable woman, to be sure; but that means nothing.I have not had a guess from Miss Portman.""From general character," Belinda began, in a constrained voice."Do not guess from general character, my dear Belind
- 164 Mr. Vincent, who had by this time seen his dog fed, which was one of his daily pleasures, returned, and politely a.s.sured Lady Delacour that Juba should not again intrude. To make her peace with Mr. Vincent, and to drive the E O table from Belinda's
- 163 "No," said Belinda, "I do not love him yet.""But for that emphatic _yet_, how I should have wors.h.i.+pped you! I wish I could once clearly understand the state of your mind about Mr. Vincent, and then I should be able to judge ho
- 162 "I am heartily glad of it--I shall be infinitely overpaid for my journey, by having the pleasure of going back with you."After some conversation upon different subjects, Mr. Vincent, with an air of frankness which was peculiarly pleasing to Beli
- 161 Belinda was convinced that, when Lady Delacour had once tasted the pleasures of domestic life, she would not easily return to that dissipation which she had followed from habit, and into which she had first been driven by a mixture of vanity and despair.
- 160 "They ought to be hunted by common consent out of civilized society,"said Lady Delacour."They are by public opinion banished from all rational society; and your ladys.h.i.+p's just indignation proves, that they have no chance of being
- 159 And so in fact it was.There is a certain cla.s.s of people, who are incapable of generous confidence in their equals, but who are disposed to yield implicit credit to the underhand information of mean emissaries. Through the medium of Champfort and the _s
- 158 "One would think that you were the person that was going to suffer. But drink this water, my dear, and do not tremble for me; you see that I do not tremble for myself. Listen to me, dearest Belinda! I owe it to your friends.h.i.+p not to torment you
- 157 The fears which her ladys.h.i.+p expressed of Mrs. Luttridge's malicious curiosity were not totally without foundation. Champfort was at work for her and for himself. The memorable night of Lady Delacour's overturn, and the bustle that Marriott
- 156 "Yes, ma'am; yes, ma'am, I'll remember; I'll be sure to remember," said Helena, tripping down the steps. But just as she was getting into the carriage she stopped at the sight of the old man, and exclaimed, "Oh, good old
- 155 "If the lock be spoiled, Lady Delacour, you had better send for a locksmith," replied his lords.h.i.+p, who was still employed about the wick of the Argand: "I am no locksmith--I do not pretend to understand locks--especially secret locks.&
- 154 "My friend, Dr. X----," said he, "divides mankind into three cla.s.ses: those who learn from the experience of others--they are happy men; those who learn from their own experience--they are wise men; and, lastly, those who learn neither fr
- 153 "And now you have abused yourself till you are breathless, I may have some chance," said Belinda, "of being heard in your defence. I perfectly agree with you in thinking that a suspicious temper is despicable and intolerable; but there is a
- 152 "I remember the time," said Mr. Percival, "when you thought it impossible that your taste should ever change; when you told me that taste, whether for the beauties of animate or inanimate nature, was immutable.""You and Miss Portm
- 151 "It does not appear to me to be a matter of chance," said Mr. Percival."This is a game of address, not chance, and that is the reason I like it.""Oh, papa! Oh, Miss Portman! look how nicely these are balanced. There!my breath has
- 150 "My belief in the reconciling power of custom does not go quite so far,"said Lady Anne. "It does not extend to Caliban, or even to the hero of La Belle et La Bete; but I do believe, that, in a mind so well regulated as yours, esteem may cer
- 149 "Then I am very glad of it!" said the boy, dropping the weed, and clapping his hands joyfully; "for then I hope you will always stay here, don't you, mamma?--don't _you_, Mr. Vincent? Oh, _you_ do, I am sure, for I heard you say s
- 148 "I only wish," continued Mrs. Freke, "I only wish his wife had been by.Why the devil did not she make her appearance? I suppose the prude was afraid of my demolis.h.i.+ng and unrigging her.""There seems to have been more danger of
- 147 "The devil! they seem to have put you in a course of the bitters--a course of the woods might do your business better. Do you ever hunt?--Let me take you out with me some morning--you'd be quite an angel on horseback; or let me drive you out som
- 146 Those who unfortunately have never enjoyed domestic happiness, such as we have just described, will perhaps suppose the picture to be visionary and romantic; there are others--it is hoped many others--who will feel that it is drawn from truth and real lif
- 145 "I want nothing from you, Lady Delacour," said Belinda. "_You have suspected me long in silence!_ then I have mistaken your character--I can love you no longer. Farewell for ever! Find another--a better friend."She walked away from Lad
- 144 "Very handsome, upon my word!" said Lady Delacour, coldly, and she fixed her eyes upon the fringe, which was black and orange: "Miss Portman's taste, I see!""Did you not say black and orange fringe, my dear?""No. I
- 143 "Nay," cried Clarence, "your ladys.h.i.+p certainly sees that this is St.Pierre's Virginia?""St. Pierre's Virginia! Oh, I know who it is, Clarence, as well as you do. I am not quite so blind, or so stupid, as you take me
- 142 "There now, you look like yourself again, and I am satisfied," cried Belinda. "As to going to Oakly-park, I give you my word I have not the most distant thoughts of it. I stay with you from choice, and not from compulsion, believe me."
- 141 "The opinion of Dr. X----," said Belinda, "must certainly be more satisfactory than mine;" and she repeated what the doctor had left with her in writing upon this subject. "You see," said Belinda, "that Dr.X----is by no
- 140 The reading party went on, and Lady Delacour made her appearance as the company were drinking orgeat, between the fourth and fifth act. "Helena, _my dear_," said she, "will you bring me a gla.s.s of orgeat?"Clarence Hervey looked at Be
- 139 "You need not be afraid to make a noise--you need not walk on tiptoe, nor shut the doors softly; for Lady Delacour seems to like all noises except the screaming of the macaw. This way, my dear.""Oh, I forgot--it is so long since!--Is mamma
- 138 A few minutes' conversation pa.s.sed afterward upon different subjects, and Lady Anne Percival and Belinda parted with a mutual desire to see more of each other.CHAPTER XIII.SORTES VIRGILIANAE.When Belinda got home, Lady Delacour was busy in the libr
- 137 Just as Belinda was beginning to sing, Marriott's macaw began to scream, so that Lady Delacour could not hear any thing else."Oh, that odious macaw!" cried her ladys.h.i.+p, "I can endure it no longer"(and she rang her bell violen
- 136 The baronet vibrated for some time between the fear of being taken in by one of Mrs. Stanhope's nieces, and the hope of triumphing over Clarence Hervey. At last, what he called love prevailed over prudence, and he was resolved, cost him what it would
- 135 "Then to please you, Marriott, I will complain of the only noise that does, or ever did disturb me--the screaming of your odious macaw."Now Marriott had a prodigious affection for this macaw, and she defended it with as much eagerness as if it h
- 134 The doctor now followed Belinda, and satisfied himself by ocular demonstration, that this cabinet was the retirement of disease, and not of pleasure.It was about eight o'clock in the morning when Dr. X---- got home; he found Clarence Hervey waiting f
- 133 "The horses--the young horses!--Oh, I wish my lady had never seen them.Oh, my lady, my poor lady, what will become of her?"It was some minutes before Belinda could obtain from Marriott any intelligible account of what had happened."All I kn
- 132 "Evils!" repeated Clarence Hervey, in a tone which surprised her ladys.h.i.+p. She looked immediately with a significant smile at Belinda."Why do not you echo _evils_, Miss Portman?""Pray, Lady Delacour," interrupted Clarence
- 131 The combat now began--the spectators were silent. Clarence made an error in his first move, for his attention was distracted by seeing Belinda behind his adversary's chair. The Spaniard was deceived by this mistake into a contemptuous opinion of his
- 130 "Every one to his taste," said Clarence; "for my part I have even less ambition to imitate the heroism than hope of being inspired with the poetic genius of Petrarch. I have no wish to pa.s.s whole nights composing sonnets. I would (am I no
- 129 "It would have been better if I had," cried Mrs. Delacour, "I can understand that there may be such a thing in nature as a jealous wife, but an unfeeling mother I cannot comprehend--that pa.s.ses my powers of imagination.""And min
- 128 "I can't say particularly, upon my soul," replied Mr. St. George; "for my own part, I was in boots, so you know I was out of the question. But what signifies all that now? Come, come, we had best think of looking after our dinners.&quo
- 127 "Who the devil are these two that seem to be making up to us?" said Sir Philip, looking at two gentlemen who were coming towards them; "St.George, hey? you know every body.""The foremost is Percival, of Oakly-park, I think, '