CONCERNING
ISABEL CARNABY

BY

ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER

AUTHOR OF
CUPID'S GARDEN, VERSES WISE AND OTHERWISE,
AND VERSES GRAVE AND GAY

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1898

Authorized Edition.

Dedication

To Mine Own People: meaning those within
The magic ring of home—my kith and kin;

And those with whom my soul delights to dwell—
Who walk with me as friends, and wish me well;

And lastly those—a large, unnumbered band,
Unknown to me—who read and understand.

CONTENTS

[Prologue]

CHAPTER I.
[Childish Things]

CHAPTER II.
[Alice]

CHAPTER III.
[Two Kings in Brentford]

CHAPTER IV.
[Friends In Need]

CHAPTER V.
[Water-lilies]

CHAPTER VI.
[Esdaile Court]

CHAPTER VII.
[Isabel Carnaby]

CHAPTER VIII.
[Elton Manor]

CHAPTER IX.
[Indecision]

CHAPTER X.
[Eden]

CHAPTER XI.
[His Own People]

CHAPTER XII.
[A Feast of Good Things]

CHAPTER XIII.
[The Country Of Conceit]

CHAPTER XIV.
[Expulsion from Eden]

CHAPTER XV.
[Angus Grey]

CHAPTER XVI.
[Success]

CHAPTER XVII.
[Vernacre]

CHAPTER XVIII.
[A State Concert]

CHAPTER XIX.
[Among the Wounded]

CHAPTER XX.
[Joanna]

CHAPTER XXI.
[As it was in the Beginning]

CHAPTER XXII.
[For Conscience' Sake]

CHAPTER XXIII.
[The Election]

CHAPTER XXIV.
[Life In London]