Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 10,116 pages of information about Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 10,116 pages of information about Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith.

Book 5
XXXIV.  Indicates the degradation of Brookfield, together
          with certain proceedings of the yacht
XXXV.  Mrs. Chump’s epistle
XXXVI.  Another pitfall of sentiment
XXXVII.  Emilia’s flight
XXXVIII.  She clings to her voice
XXXIX.  Her voice fails

Book 6
XL.  She tastes despair
XLI.  She is found
XLII.  Defection of Mr. Pericles from the Brookfield circle
XLIII.  In which we see Wilfrid kindling
XLIV.  On the hippogriff in airIn which the
          philosopher has A short spell
XLV.  On the hippogriff on earth
XLVI.  Rape of the black-briony wreath
XLVII.  The call to action
XLVIII.  Contains A further view of sentiment
XLIX.  Between Emilia and Georgiana

Book 7
L. Emilia begins to feel Merthyr’s power
LI.  A chapter interrupted by the philosopher
LII.  A fresh duett between Wilfrid and Emilia
LIII.  Alderman’s bouquet
LiivThe explosion at Brookfield
LV.  The tragedy of sentiment
LVI.  An advance and A check
LVII.  Contains A further anatomy of Wilfrid
LVIII.  Frost on the may night
LVIX.  Emilia’s good-bye

SANDRA BELLONI

[Originally Emilia in England]

CHAPTER I

We are to make acquaintance with some serious damsels, as this English generation knows them, and at a season verging upon May.  The ladies of Brookfield, Arabella, Cornelia, and Adela Pole, daughters of a flourishing City-of-London merchant, had been told of a singular thing:  that in the neighbouring fir-wood a voice was to be heard by night, so wonderfully sweet and richly toned, that it required their strong sense to correct strange imaginings concerning it.  Adela was herself the chief witness to its unearthly sweetness, and her testimony was confirmed by Edward Buxley,

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