Beatrice

Updated: 2024-4-18

Status: Completed

Beatrice Novel Chapters

List of most recent chapters published for the Beatrice novel. A total of 46 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024

Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Beatrice.by H. Rider Haggard.TO BEATRICE "Oh, kind is Death that Life's long t
Beatrice.by H. Rider Haggard.TO BEATRICE "Oh, kind is Death that Life's long trouble closes, Yet at Death's coming Life shrinks back affright; It sees the dark hand,--not that it encloses A cup of light.So oft the Spirit seeing Love draw ni

1 Beatrice.by H. Rider Haggard.TO BEATRICE "Oh, kind is Death that Life's long trouble closes, Yet at Death's coming Life shrinks back affright; It sees the dark hand,--not that it encloses A cup of light.So oft the Spirit seeing Love draw ni 2024-4-23
2 "Perhaps you have read law too?" he said with suppressed sarcasm."I have read some," she answered calmly. "I like law, especially Equity law; it is so subtle, and there is such a ma.s.s of it built upon such a small foundation. It 2024-4-23
3 "Give me some more cartridges," she cried. He did so, but nothing followed."It is no use," she said at length, "the cartridges are wet. I cannot get the empty cases out. But perhaps they may have seen or heard them.Old Edward is s 2024-4-23
4 "Back," he roared again--"back water!"They backed, and the boat answered, but nothing was to be seen."She's gone! Oh, Goad, she's gone!" groaned the old man. "You may put about now, lads, and the Lord's wi 2024-4-23
5 The medical a.s.sistant looked a little surprised. He had never, it is true, happened to be present at a meeting between husband and wife, when one of the pair had just been rescued by a hair's-breadth from a violent and sudden death, and therefore w 2024-4-23
6 "Great Heavens!" said the a.s.sistant presently, starting back from the body and pointing at its face. "Did you see that?"Elizabeth and Mr. Granger sprang to their feet, crying, "What, what?""Sit still, sir," said t 2024-4-23
7 "And what did Mr. Davies want at this time of night? To know about Beatrice?""Yes," she answered slowly, "he came to ask after Beatrice, or to be more correct he has been waiting outside for three hours in the rain to learn if she 2024-4-23
8 "Lord, Miss Beatrice, and how do you know it's him?" said Mrs. Thomas."How do you know it ain't a housebreaker?""Oh, I'm sure he cannot be," answered Beatrice aside, "because he isn't clever enough.&q 2024-4-23
9 "I think so," said the doctor, "but not before this evening. You had better keep quiet till then. You will be glad to hear that Miss Beatrice is getting on very well. Hers was a wonderful recovery, the most wonderful I ever saw. I had quite 2024-4-23
10 "Thank you, no. I will not lay myself open to imputations. I shall join you in London, and will make the best of a bad business. Thank Heaven, I have learned how to bear my misfortunes," and with this Parthian shot she left the room.For a minute 2024-4-23
11 "'Hope has rent her raiment, and the stars are set.'"I called again, and asked of the land where I should go, and the land did not answer, but the sea answered me a second time: "'Child of the mist, wander in the mist, and in 2024-4-23
12 For were they not discussing a purely abstract question?CHAPTER X LADY HONORIA MAKES ARRANGEMENTS In another moment somebody entered the room; it was Elizabeth. She had returned from her t.i.the collecting expedition--with the t.i.the. The door of the sit 2024-4-23
13 Thus the two women took each other's measure at a glance, each finding the other wanting by her standard. Nor did they ever change that hastily formed judgment.It was all done in a few seconds--in that hesitating moment before the words we summon ans 2024-4-23
14 BEATRICE MAKES AN APPOINTMENT Lady Honoria leaned back in the cab, and sighed a sigh of satisfaction."That is a capital idea," she said. "I was wondering what arrangements you could make for the next three weeks. It is ridiculous to pay thr 2024-4-23
15 "It is very good of you to take so much interest in me," said Beatrice."Not at all, Miss Beatrice, not at all. Who--who could help taking interest in you? I have brought you some books--the Life of Darwin--it is in two volumes. I think that 2024-4-23
16 The cottage stood about two-thirds of the way down a straggling street, which was quite empty, for Bryngelly slept after dinner on Sunday.At the top of this street appeared Elizabeth, a Bible in her hand, as though on district visiting intent. She looked 2024-4-23
17 "Yes," he answered apathetically.Elizabeth paused. Then she took her bull by the horns."Are you going to marry Beatrice, Mr. Davies?" she asked."I don't know," he answered slowly and without surprise. It seemed natural t 2024-4-23
18 "Elizabeth," said Beatrice, turning a shade paler; "what can she have been doing, I wonder.""Taking exercise, probably, like yourself. Well, I seat myself with my pipe in the shadow of that rock, when suddenly I see Mr. Davies com 2024-4-23
19 DRIFTING On the day following their religious discussion an accident happened which resulted in Geoffrey and Beatrice being more than ever thrown in the company of each other. During the previous week two cases of scarlatina had been reported among the sc 2024-4-23
20 "Yes, Miss Granger," he answered, "I saw you.""And you were going by without speaking to me; it was very rude of you--what is the matter?""Not so rude as it was of you to arrange to walk out with me and then to go and se 2024-4-23
21 "What could it mean?" Beatrice wondered.As the thought crossed her mind, she perceived two men running towards her with all their speed, followed by a woman. Three minutes more and she saw that the woman was Elizabeth.The men were pa.s.sing her 2024-4-23
22 Meet, if thou require it, Both demands, Laying flesh and spirit In thy hands.That shall be to-morrow Not to-night: I must bury sorrow Out of sight.Must a little weep, Love, (Foolish me!) And so fall asleep, Love, Loved by thee."Geoffrey heard them in 2024-4-23
23 "Or what, Beatrice?""Here is the station," said Beatrice, "and Betty is quarrelling with the flyman."Five minutes more and Geoffrey was gone.CHAPTER XVI THE FLAT NEAR THE EDGWARE ROAD Geoffrey's journey to town was not a 2024-4-23
24 Dunstan has also been staying at the Hall, you know.""How could it be otherwise when you were there, Lady Honoria?" answered the Saint in that strain of compliment affected by such men, and which, to tell the truth, jarred on its object, wh 2024-4-23
25 "My lord and gentlemen of the jury, I do not think it necessary to carry my case any further."There was no applause, the occasion was too dramatically solemn, but the impression made both upon the court and the outside public, to whom such a sce 2024-4-23
26 It was an odd way of taking a revenge, and one that suited Lady Honoria admirably; but though its victim felt no sting, it gave Geoffrey much secret relief. Also he was curious; he wished to see if there was any bottom to such a woman's desire for lu 2024-4-23
27 Beatrice turned and flashed such a look on him that he fell back and left her. But it was true, and she knew that it was true. If Geoffrey had given her a sixpence with a hole in it, she would have valued it more than all the diamonds on earth. Oh! what a 2024-4-23
28 When the fine young men and the two stray ladies had melted away, Geoffrey took Mr. Granger up to his room. Coming downstairs again he found Lady Honoria waiting for him in the study."Is that individual really going to dine and sleep here?" she asked." 2024-4-23
29 "Expect you? no. No more than I expected----" and she stopped suddenly."It is very odd," he said; "I thought you knew that your father was going to ask me down. I returned from London with him.""From London," she murmured. "I did not know; Elizab 2024-4-23
30 "Yes, I live alone, because I can't help myself. What is a man to do, Mr. Bingham, when the woman he loves will not marry him, won't look at him, treats him like dirt?""Marry somebody else," suggested Geoffrey."Oh, it is easy for you to say that--y 2024-4-23
31 "Since I have been here," he said, "I have had made to me no less than three appeals on your behalf and by separate people--by your father, who fancies that you are pining for Owen Davies; by Owen Davies, who is certainly pining for you; and by old Edw 2024-4-23
32 There was something so sweet and infinitely tender about her words, instinct as they were with natural womanly pa.s.sion, that Geoffrey bent at heart beneath their weight as a fir bends beneath the gentle, gathering snow. What was he to do, how could he l 2024-4-23
33 No answer."Ah--h," said Elizabeth aloud; "I understand. At last--at last!"What should see do? Should she go and call her father and put them to an open shame? No. Beatrice must come back some time. The knowledge was enough; she wanted the knowledge to 2024-4-23
34 If not, why then--it will indeed be best--to die."It is not well to linger over such a scene as this. After all, too, it is nothing. Only another broken heart or so. The world breaks so many this way and the other that it can have little pleasure in gloa 2024-4-23
35 "My Ladi,--My consence druvs me to it, much again my will. I've tried hard, my ladi, not to speek, first acorse of miss B. as i heve knowed good and peur and also for the sakes of your evil usband that wulf in scheeps cloathin. But when i think on you m 2024-4-23
36 But Beatrice thought little of herself. He was in danger, and how could she protect him? Why here in the letter was the answer! "If you care for him sever all connection with him utterly, and for ever. Otherwise, he will live to curse and hate you." No, 2024-4-23
37 "So I come to tell you that I love your daughter Beatrice, and want to make her my wife. I have never loved anybody else, but I have loved her for years; and I ask your consent.""Very flattering, very flattering, I am sure, especially in th 2024-4-23
38 Owen Davies hesitated; he was suspicious."Remember," Beatrice went on, raising her voice, "I am a desperate woman. I may turn at bay, and do something which you do not expect, and that will be very little to the advantage of any of you. Do 2024-4-23
39 Beatrice laughed again and went."She's a funny one she is," said the old man scratching his head as he looked after her, "of all the woman folk as ever I knowed she is the rummest. I sometimes thinks she wants to get drowned. Dash me i 2024-4-23
40 "Pa.s.s this way, then, miss--pa.s.s this way," said the automatic officer in a voice of bra.s.s. She pa.s.sed, and pa.s.sed, and finally found herself in a lobby, among a crowd of people of all sorts--seedy political touts, Irish priests and hu 2024-4-23
41 "She was there a second ago," he said, pointing to the pillar, "but I've lost her now--I fancy she went towards the railway station, but I could not see. Stop, is that she?" and he pointed to a tall person walking towards the Abbe 2024-4-23
42 And the child looked up, s.h.i.+vered, smiled--and slept.Beatrice gave it back to the weeping parents and went her way. "What a splendid creature," said the doctor to himself as he looked after her."She has eyes like Fate, and the face of M 2024-4-23
43 "Oh, very well, very well," said Geoffrey, "I daresay that it will be all right, but if Effie gets any worse, you will please understand that room must be made."But Effie did not get worse. She remained much about the same. Geoffrey sa 2024-4-23
44 Betty burst out into loud weeping at his words."Stop that noise, girl," said Geoffrey, turning his pale face towards her. "Go back to the Vicarage, and if Mr. Granger comes home before I get back, tell him what we fear. Edward, send some me 2024-4-23
45 There was a pause."Mr. Granger," said Geoffrey presently, "never trouble yourself about money. You were her father; anything you want and what I have is yours.Let us shake hands and say good-bye, and let us never meet again. As I said, G.o.d forgive us 2024-4-23
46 But the Guardsman had vanished. For reasons of his own he did not wish to meet Garsington. Perhaps he too had been a member of a certain club."Oh, there you are, Honoria," said her brother, "I thought that I should be sure to find you somew 2024-4-23