THE WELLFIELDS.


THE WELLFIELDS.
A Novel.
BY
JESSIE FOTHERGILL,
AUTHOR OF ‘THE FIRST VIOLIN’ AND ‘PROBATION.’
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
1880.
[All Rights Reserved.]


To
MY FRIENDS AT LOWESWATER,
IN REMEMBRANCE OF SOME PLEASANT DAYS
SPENT THERE WITH THEM.


CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

PAGE
PRELUDE[1]
STAGE I.
CHAPTER
I. EMS[16]
II. FRAU VON TROCKENAU’S ‘GESELLSCHAFT’[41]
III. A LANDPARTEI[72]
IV. OF THE WELLFIELDS[116]
V. FATHER AND SON ARRANGE ACCOUNTS[133]
VI. AVICE READS A CHAPTER OF A NEW BOOK[155]
VII. LIFE’S FULLEST STREAM[163]
VIII. ‘CONTENT THEE WITH ONE BITTER WORD, ADIEU!’[183]
IX. ELLEN’S OPINION[195]
STAGE II.
I. WHAT MR. NETLEY SAID[204]
II. MONK’S GATE[217]
III. THE NEW MAN AND THE OLD ACRES[229]
IV. NITA’S DIARY[258]
V. WITH THE STREAM[265]