Chetwynd Calverley / New Edition, 1877
CONTENTS
One summer evening, Mildred Calverley, accounted the prettiest girl in Cheshire, who had been seated in the drawing-room of her father's house, Ouselcroft, near Daresbury, vainly trying to read, passed out from the open French window, and made her way towards two magnificent cedars of Lebanon, at the farther end of the lawn.
She was still pacing the lawn with distracted steps, when a well-known voice called out to her, and a tall figure emerged from the shade of the cedars, and Mildred uttered a cry of mingled surprise and delight.
“Is that you, Chetwynd?”
“Ay I don't you know your own brother, Mildred?”
And as they met, they embraced each other affectionately.
“Have you been here long, Chetwynd?” she asked. “Why didn't you come into the house?”
“I didn't know whether I should be welcome, Mildred. Tell me how all is going on?”
“Then you have not received my letters, addressed to Bellagio and Milan? I wrote to tell you that papa is very seriously ill, and begged you to return immediately. Did you get the letters?”
William Harrison Ainsworth
CHETWYND CALVERLEY
1877
CHETWYND CALVERLEY.
INTRODUCTION.—THE YOUNG STEPMOTHER.
I. OUSELCROFT.
II. TERESA.
III. MR. CALVERLEY.
IV. FATHER AND SON.
V. THE OLD BUTLER.
VI. SELF-EXAMINATION.
VII. TERRIBLE SUSPICIONS.
|In half a minute more they were in the old room upstairs.
VIII. DEATH OF MR. CALVERLEY.
END OF THE INTRODUCTION
BOOK THE FIRST—MILDRED.
I. SUITORS.
|Mrs. Calverley had been nearly a year a widow.
II. SIR BRIDGNORTH CHARLTON.
III. INQUIRIES.
IV. PORTRAITS.
V. THE POCKET-BOOK.
VI. BRACKLEY HEATH.
VII. CAPTAIN DANVERS.
|I hope you have lost nothing, ladies?” cried the stranger.
VIII. BRACKLEY HALL.
IX. LADY BARFLEUR.
X. THE GALLERY.
XI. WHAT PASSED IN THE GARDEN.
XII. BRACKLEY MERE.
XIII. PURSUIT OF THE GIPSIES.
XIV. THE BLOODHOUND.
XV. THE DEERHOUNDS.
|Meanwhile, Sir Leycester had not been idle.
END OF THE FIRST BOOK
BOOK THE SECOND—THE HEIRESS OF BRACKLEY HALL.
I. THE LAST OF THE OLD CHESHIRE SQUIRES.
II. A CONSULTATION.
III. CHETWYND'S LETTER.
END OF THE SECOND BOOK
BOOK THE THIRD—WALTER LIDDEL.
I. ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
II. THE HOUSE IN SPENCER'S KENTS.
III. INTRODUCES MR. TANKARD, MR. LAEKINS, AND MR. PLEDGER DAPP.
IV. SIGEBERT SMART.
V. ROMNEY.
VI. ROSE HARTLEY.
VII. TOM TANKARD.
VIII. AS A FOOTMAN.
X. SUPPER.
THE END OF THE THIRD BOOK
BOOK THE FOURTH—PROBATION.
I. THE FIRST STEP.
“B. C.”
II. THE SECOND ORDEAL.
|Mrs. Calverley had arrived, and they found her in the drawing-room.
III. THE RETURN TO OUSELCROFT.
IV. WHICH OF THE TWO?
V. HOW CAPTAIN DANVERS WAS THROWN OVER BY BOTH LADIES.
VI. MRS. CALVERLEY RENDERS CHETWYND AN IMPORTANT SERVICE.
VII. HOW CHETWYND AND EMMELINE PLIGHTED THEIR FAITH IN THE OLD CHAPEL.
VIII. THE HAUNTED BOOM.
IX. WHAT PASSED BETWEEN CAPTAIN DANVERS AND MRS. CALVERLEY IN THE GARDEN.
|After the stormy night came a magnificent day.
X. AN INVITATION TO TOWN.
|Next day a letter was forwarded to Emmeline from Brackley.
END OF THE FOURTH BOOK
BOOK THE FIFTH—LADY THICKNESSE.
|After he had dined, Chetwynd took a hansom cab and drove to Lambeth.
II. HARRY NETTERVILLE'S JEALOUS RAGE.
III. LORD COURLAND.
IV. A VIEW OF THE RING ROAD.
V. LORD COURLAND CONTINUES UNDECIDED.
VI. LADY THICKNESSE HAS A CONFERENCE WITH SCROPE.
VII. THE VISIT TO MRS. HARTLEY'S.
VIII. HOW HARRY NETTERVILLE FOUND ROMNEY.
IX. CAPTAIN DANVERS ARRIVES IN BELGRAVE SQUARE.
X. MRS. CALVERLEY MAKES AN IMPORTANT CONQUEST.
XI. LADY THICKNESSE CONSULTS SIR BRIDGNORTH.
XII. ANOTHER EXPLANATION.
XIII. A SOIREE DANSANTE.
XIV. AN UNPLEASANT INQUIRY.
XV. EVIDENCE IN CHETWYND's FAVOUR.
XVI. LORD COURLAND PROPOSES TO MRS. CALVERLEY.
END OF THE FIFTH BOOK
BOOK THE SIXTH—THE CLAUSE IN MR. CALVERLEY'S WILL.
I. OLD NOBBIS QUESTIONS LAURA.
II. THE CABINET.
III. HOW THE WILL WAS FOUND.
IV. A LETTER PROM LORD COURLAND.
V. SHOWING WHAT MRS. CALVERLEY'S DRESSING-BOX CONTAINED.
VI. POISON IN THE CUP.
VII. PANGS OP REMORSE.
VIII. HARRY NETTERVILLE AND TOM TANKARD APPEAR AT OUSELCROFT.
IX. THE ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION.
X. HOW MILDRED RECOVERED.
XI. MORE LETTERS.
XII. LORD COURLAND ARRIVES AT OUSELCROFT.
XIII. A DANCE ON THE LAWN.
XIV. HOW MRS. CALVERLEY PASSED THE NIGHT.
XV. HOW DOCTOR SPENCER WAS SENT FOR.
XVI. CHETWYND MAKES COMMUNICATION TO SIR BRIDGNORTH.
XVII, DOCTOR SPENCER.
XVIII. DOCTOR SPENCER HAS AN INTERVIEW WITH CHETWYND.
XIX. WHAT PASSED BETWEEN LORD COURLAND AND MR. CARTERET.
XX. THE PARTING BETWEEN TERESA AND LORD COURLAND.
XXI. HOW MRS. CALVERLEY MADE HER WILL.
XXIII. SIR BRIDGNORTH PROPOSES TO LADY THICKNESSE, AND IS ACCEPTED.
XXIV. THE RACE BETWEEN ZEPHYRUS AND TOM TANKARD.
XXV. CAPTAIN DANVERS BRINGS DISTRESSING NEWS.
XXVI. TERESA'S CONFESSION.
XXVII. A MONTH LATER.
XXVIII. ALL IS SETTLED.
XXIX. CONCLUSION.
THE END.
