The Hand of Ethelberta eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 541 pages of information about The Hand of Ethelberta.

The Hand of Ethelberta eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 541 pages of information about The Hand of Ethelberta.

CONTENTS

 1.  A street in Anglebury—­A heath near it—­inside the ‘red Lion’ inn
 2.  Christopher’s house—­Sandbourne town—­Sandbourne moor
 3.  Sandbourne moor (continued)
 4.  Sandbourne pier—­road to Wyndway—­ballroom in Wyndway house
 5.  At the window—­the road home
 6.  The shore by Wyndway
 7.  The dining-room of A town house—­the butler’s pantry
 8.  Christopher’s lodgings—­the grounds about Rookington
 9.  A lady’s drawing-rooms—­Ethelberta’s dressing-room
10.  Lady Petherwin’s house
11.  Sandbourne and its neighbourhood—­some London streets
12.  Arrowthorne park and lodge
13.  The lodge (continued)—­the copse behind
14.  A turnpike road
15.  An inner room at the lodge
16.  A large public hall
17.  Ethelberta’s house
18.  Near Sandbourne—­London streets—­Ethelberta’s
19.  Ethelberta’s drawing-room
20.  The neighbourhood of the hall—­the road home
21.  A street—­Neigh’s rooms—­Christopher’s rooms
22.  Ethelberta’s house
23.  Ethelberta’s house (continued)
24.  Ethelberta’s house (continued)—­the British museum
25.  The Royal Academy—­the Farnfield estate
26.  Ethelberta’s drawing-room
27.  Mrs. Belmaine’s—­Cripplegate church
28.  Ethelberta’s—­Mr. Chickerel’s room
29.  Ethelberta’s dressing-room—­Mr. Doncastle’s house
30.  On the housetop
31.  Knollsea—­A lofty down—­A ruined castle
32.  A room in Enckworth court
33.  The English channel—­Normandy
34.  The hotel Beau Sejour, and spots near it
35.  The hotel (continued), and the quay in front
36.  The house in town
37.  Knollsea—­an ornamental villa
38.  Enckworth court
39.  Knollsea—­Melchester
40.  Melchester (continued)
41.  Workshops—­an inn—­the street
42.  The Doncastles’ residence, and outside the same
43.  The railway—­the sea—­the shore beyond
44.  Sandbourne—­A lonely heath—­the ’red Lion’—­the highway 45.  Knollsea—­the road thence—­Enckworth 46.  Enckworth (continued)—­the Anglebury highway
47.  Enckworth and its precincts—­Melchester
sequel.  Anglebury—­Enckworth—­Sandbourne

1.  A street in Anglebury—­A heath near it—­inside the ‘red Lion’ inn

Young Mrs. Petherwin stepped from the door of an old and well-appointed inn in a Wessex town to take a country walk.  By her look and carriage she appeared to belong to that gentle order of society which has no worldly sorrow except when its jewellery gets stolen; but, as a fact not generally known, her claim to distinction was rather one of brains than of blood.  She was the daughter of a gentleman who lived in a large house not his own, and began life as a baby christened Ethelberta after an infant of title who does not come into the story at all, having merely furnished Ethelberta’s

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