قراءة كتاب Alice Lorraine A Tale of the South Downs
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Alice Lorraine A Tale of the South Downs
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ALICE LORRAINE:
A TALE OF THE SOUTH DOWNS.
BY
RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE,
AUTHOR OF “THE MAID OF SKER,” “LORNA DOONE,” ETC.
οὕτως ἔχει σοι ταῦτα, καὶ δείξεις τάχα,
εἴτ’ εὐγενὴς πέφυκας, εἴτ’ ἐσθλῶν κακή.
Soph. Ant.
NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION.
LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY,
LIMITED,
St. Dunstan’s House,
Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
1893.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
To
PROFESSOR OWEN, C.B., F.R.S., &c.,
WITH THE WRITER’S GRATITUDE,
FOR WORDS OF TRUE ENCOURAGEMENT,
AND MANY ACTS OF KINDNESS,
This Work
MOST HEARTILY IS DEDICATED
April, 1875.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER | PAGE | |
I.— | ALL IN THE DOWNS | 1 |
II.— | COOMBE LORRAINE | 3 |
III.— | LINEAGE AND LINEAMENTS | 5 |
IV.— | FATHER AND FAVOURITE | 7 |
V.— | THE LEGEND OF THE ASTROLOGER | 11 |
VI.— | THE LEGEND CONTINUED | 14 |
VII.— | THE LEGEND CONCLUDED | 17 |
VIII.— | ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST | 20 |
IX.— | THE LEGACY OF THE ASTROLOGER | 24 |
X.— | A BOY AND A DONKEY | 27 |
XI.— | CHAMBER PRACTICE | 35 |
XII.— | WITH THE COSTERMONGERS | 45 |
XIII.— | TO THE CHERRY-ORCHARDS | 49 |
XIV.— | BEAUTIES OF THE COUNTRY | 55 |
XV.— | OH, RUDDIER THAN THE CHERRY! | 59 |
XVI.— | OH, SWEETER THAN THE BERRY! | 66 |
XVII.— | VERY SHY THINGS | 72 |
XVIII.— | THE KEY OF THE GATE | 78 |
XIX.— | FOUR YOUNG LADIES | 84 |
XX.— | A RECTOR OF THE OLDEN STYLE | 92 |
XXI.— | A NOTABLE LADY | 96 |
XXII.— | A MALIGNANT CASE | 100 |
XXIII.— | THE BAITER BAITED | 105 |
XXIV.— | A FATHERLY SUGGESTION | 109 |
XXV.— | THE WELL OF THE |