Ravenshoe

by Henry Kingsley

CONTENTS.

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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.
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.
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.
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 MÉNAGE [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.
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.
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]

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RAVENSHOE.

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CHAPTER I.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF RAVENSHOE.

I had intended to have gone into a family history of the Ravenshoes, from the time of Canute to that of her present Majesty, following it down through every change and revolution, both secular and religious; which would have been deeply interesting, but which would have taken more hard reading than one cares to undertake for nothing. I had meant, I say, to have been quite diffuse on the annals of one of our oldest commoner families; but, on going into the subject, I found I must either chronicle little affairs which ought to have been forgotten long ago, or do my work in a very patchy and inefficient way. When I say that the Ravenshoes have been engaged in every plot, rebellion, and civil war, from about a century or so before the Conquest to 1745, and that the history of the house was marked by cruelty and rapacity in old times, and in those more modern by political tergiversation of the blackest dye, the reader will understand why I hesitate to say too much in reference to a name which I especially honour. In order, however, that I may give some idea of what the hereditary character of the family is, I must just lead the reader's eye lightly over some of the principal events of their history.