Ravenshoe

Ravenshoe

The language used in telling the following story is not (as I hope the reader will soon perceive) the Author's, but Mr. William Marston's. The Author's intention was, while telling the story, to develop, in the person of an imaginary narrator, the character of a thoroughly good-hearted and tolerably clever man, who has his fingers (as he would say himself) in every one's pie, and who, for the life of him, cannot keep his own counselthat is to say, the only person who, by any possibility, could have collected the mass of family gossip which makes up this tale. Had the Author told it in his own person, it would have been told with less familiarity, and, as he thinks, you would not have laughed quite so often. [Pg ix] PAGE CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF RAVENSHOE 1 CHAPTER II. SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE FOREGOING 10 CHAPTER III. IN WHICH OUR HERO'S TROUBLES BEGIN 14 CHAPTER IV. FATHER MACKWORTH 20 CHAPTER V. RANFORD 23 CHAPTER VI. THE "WARREN HASTINGS" 34 CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH CHARLES AND LORD WELTER DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES AT THE UNIVERSITY 44 CHAPTER VIII. [Pg x]JOHN MARSTON 50 CHAPTER IX. ADELAIDE 57 CHAPTER X. LADY ASCOT'S LITTLE NAP 63 CHAPTER XI. GIVES US AN INSIGHT INTO CHARLES'S DOMESTIC RELATIONS, AND SHOWS HOW THE GREAT CONSPIRATOR SOLILOQUISED TO THE GRAND CHANDELIER 69 CHAPTER XII. CONTAINING A SONG BY CHARLES RAVENSHOE, AND ALSO FATHER TIERNAY'S OPINION ABOUT THE FAMILY 79 CHAPTER XIII. THE BLACK HARE 86 CHAPTER XIV. LORD SALTIRE'S VISIT, AND SOME OF HIS OPINIONS 92 CHAPTER XV. CHARLES'S "LIDDELL AND SCOTT" 99 CHAPTER XVI. MARSTON'S ARRIVAL 104 CHAPTER XVII. IN WHICH THERE IS ANOTHER SHIPWRECK 107 CHAPTER XVIII. MARSTON'S DISAPPOINTMENT 114 CHAPTER XIX. [Pg xi]ELLEN'S FLIGHT 121 CHAPTER XX. RANFORD AGAIN 124 CHAPTER XXI. CLOTHO, LACHESIS, AND ATROPOS 131 CHAPTER XXII. THE LAST GLIMPSE OF OXFORD 139 CHAPTER XXIII. THE LAST GLIMPSE OF THE OLD WORLD 142 CHAPTER XXIV. THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE NEW WORLD 146 CHAPTER XXV. FATHER MACKWORTH BRINGS LORD SALTIRE TO BAY, AND WHAT CAME OF IT 152 CHAPTER XXVI. THE GRAND CRASH 160 CHAPTER XXVII. THE COUP DE GRACE 167 CHAPTER XXVIII. FLIGHT 176 CHAPTER XXIX. CHARLES'S RETREAT UPON LONDON 180 CHAPTER XXX. MR. SLOANE 185 CHAPTER XXXI. [Pg xii]LIEUTENANT HORNBY 190 CHAPTER XXXII. SOME OF THE HUMOURS OF A LONDON MEWS. 194 CHAPTER XXXIII. A GLIMPSE OF SOME OLD FRIENDS 200 CHAPTER XXXIV. IN WHICH FRESH MISCHIEF IS BREWED 203 CHAPTER XXXV. IN WHICH AN ENTIRELY NEW, AND, AS WILL BE SEEN HEREAFTER, A MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTER IS INTRODUCED 211 CHAPTER XXXVI. THE DERBY 219 CHAPTER XXXVII. LORD WELTER'S MNAGE 227 CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE HOUSE FULL OF GHOSTS 235 CHAPTER XXXIX. CHARLES'S EXPLANATION WITH LORD WELTER 242 CHAPTER XL. A DINNER PARTY AMONG SOME OLD FRIENDS 246 CHAPTER XLI. CHARLES'S SECOND EXPEDITION TO ST. JOHN'S WOOD 252 CHAPTER XLII. RAVENSHOE HALL, DURING ALL THIS 261 CHAPTER XLIII. [Pg xiii]THE MEETING 270 CHAPTER XLIV. ANOTHER MEETING 275 CHAPTER XLV. HALF A MILLION 285 CHAPTER XLVI. TO LUNCH WITH LORD ASCOT 288 CHAPTER XLVII. LORD HAINAULT'S BLOTTING-BOOK 302 CHAPTER XLVIII. IN WHICH CUTHBERT BEGINS TO SEE THINGS IN A NEW LIGHT 309 CHAPTER XLIX. THE SECOND COLUMN OF "THE TIMES" OF THIS DATE, WITH OTHER MATTERS 317 CHAPTER L. SHREDS AND PATCHES 320 CHAPTER LI. IN WHICH CHARLES COMES TO LIFE AGAIN 327 CHAPTER LII. WHAT LORD SALTIRE AND FATHER MACKWORTH SAID WHEN THEY LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOW 335 CHAPTER LIII. CAPTAIN ARCHER TURNS UP 343 CHAPTER LIV. CHARLES MEETS HORNBY AT LAST 349 CHAPTER LV. [Pg xiv]ARCHER'S PROPOSAL 358 CHAPTER LVI. SCUTARI 369 CHAPTER LVII. WHAT CHARLES DID WITH HIS LAST EIGHTEEN SHILLINGS 374 CHAPTER LVIII. THE NORTH SIDE OF GROSVENOR SQUARE 379 CHAPTER LIX. LORD ASCOT'S CROWNING ACT OF FOLLY 391 CHAPTER LX. THE BRIDGE AT LAST 400 CHAPTER LXI. SAVED 411 CHAPTER LXII. MR. JACKSON'S BIG TROUT 415 CHAPTER LXIII. IN WHICH GUS CUTS FLORA'S DOLL'S CORNS 420 CHAPTER LXIV. THE ALLIED ARMIES ADVANCE ON RAVENSHOE 423 CHAPTER LXV. FATHER MACKWORTH PUTS THE FINISHING TOUCH ON HIS GREAT PIECE OF EMBROIDERY 427 CHAPTER LXVI. GUS AND FLORA ARE NAUGHTY IN CHURCH, AND THE WHOLE BUSINESS COMES TO AN END 438 ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 41636
Author: Kingsley, Henry
Release Date: Dec 16, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Woodville, Richard Caton, 1856-1927