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UNFAIRLY WON

... . BY MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback dsc. (Commenced January 29th. No. 368.) CHAPTER XXII. THE letter to George was written, approved of, and de spatched. Ivy did not make her appearance again that day. She remained in her own chamber, nursing her bitter reflections, and giving free vent to her grief. Her aunt came to her, late in the evening; for Ivy's tea went down ...

WHY CAPTAIN RAWDON DID NUT GO TO THE WAR

... WHY CAl'TAIN RAWPON DID NUT CO TO THE WAR. By Feedeeick Boyle. Author of Camp A'oles,' Chronicles of Nomansland, Legends of My Bungalow c. YOU know, Clem, that my appointment is gazetted. If I could help you in any way I would give you my last hour, but there is no room for any body's interference, least of all mine. We may have our opinion of Darner, but a lady Bees him from a different ...

UNFAIRLY WON

... BY MKS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of 11 Ladies on Horseback dec. CHAPTER XL. THE two hours which she had craved had just elapsed, when Caroline drove hastily to the door of her own dwelling. A hur ried question to the page who answered her knock, and she crossed to the library, where George was pacing slowly up and down. The calm, satisfied expression upon her pleased face contrasted with his, ...

UNFAIRLY WON: CHAPTER II.(Continued)

... UNFAIRLY WON BY MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback, Ac, Commenced, January 29 th. No. 368.) CHAPTER II. Continued Ivy Chandos inherited the sporting quality in no small degree. She could ride a run and jump a five-barred gate with anybody; could play tennis, and billiards; pull a good oar, and drive a tandem or a team with equal ease, and we may add with equal grace, for ...

STRAIGHTENING THE ACCOUNTS

... . Now, my dear, said Mr. Spookendyke, will you bring the pen and ink, and I'll look over your accounts and straighten 'em for you? I think your idea of keeping an account of the daily expenses is the best thing you overdid. It's business-like, and I want to encourage you in it. Here's the ink, BaidMrs Spoopendyke, growing radiant at the compliment. I had a pen the day before yesterday Let ...

UNFAIRLY WON

... BY MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback, Ac. CHAPTER XXXIX. THE breakfast-table next morning in St. James's was a very dull and cheerless one indeed. Caroline and George were the only two who sat down to it, and both looked pale and depressed, and partook of the meal in almost total silence. George made but a pretence of eating. He hastily swallowed his coffee, and pushed away ...

Fiction/Narrative

... h at another man out of the semblance of human nature. After a day spent in an endeavour to slay partridges he sat by fhe fire and the ghost of one of his ancestors appeared. The Id eentleinan or ex-gentleman contrasted what he had seen that day (he had, it appears, watched proceedings) with what used to happen in his own time. Having lighted his pipe he sat down, and began suddenly with the ...

New Novels

... PURITY UNWIN; THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP, by Sydney Warrington (1 vol.: Remington and Co.), is founded upon a curiously unnatural situation. A lady of rank, Lady Clarissa Unwin-Deane, imagines that s ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1881
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 943 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

New Novels

... THE object of Blair Athol, by, Blinkhoolie, (3 vols.: Chapman and Hall), is to show that the love of a good horse, so far from being hurtful, may even serve to keep a man straight in life, and c ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1881
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 958 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

UNFAIRLY WON

... BY MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback Ac. Commenced January 292/t. No. 3G8.) CHAPTER VIII. WHICH of my readers has not seen a race-course-- that strange centre of evil and of good-- of virtue and of vice-- of boyhood's follies and of manhood's crimes-- that alluring spot which, with a siren's art, attracts all who come within the reach of its mighty influence? Princes and ...

THE PRESENT POSITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE MELBOURNE FAMILY

... . BY AMPHION. Part II. As might be expected, all the immediate descendants of Melbourne have long since paid the debt of nature, the last representative of the grand old horse having had his death recorded in the Stud Book Obituary, appended to the latest issue of that work. Therein we note that Young Melbourne died four years ago, in his twenty- second year, such sires as West Australian, ...