Shirley (89 page)
Mrs. Robert was quieter like. Mrs. Louis smiled when she talked. She had a real, happy, glad, good-
natured look; but she had een that pierced a body through. There is no such ladies nowadays."
"What was the Hollow like then, Martha?"
"Different to what it is now; but I can tell of it clean different again, when there was neither mill, nor cot, nor hall, except Fieldhead, within two miles of it. I can tell, one summer evening, fifty years syne, my mother coming running in just at the edge of dark, almost fleyed out of her wits, saying she
had seen a fairish [fairy] in Fieldhead Hollow; and that was the last fairish that ever was seen on this countryside (though they've been heard within these forty years). A lonesome spot it was, and a bonny
spot, full of oak trees and nut trees. It is altered now."
The story is told. I think I now see the judicious reader putting on his spectacles to look for the moral. It would be an insult to his sagacity to offer directions. I only say, God speed him in the quest!
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Find me an English word as good, reader, and I will gladly dispense with the French word.
"Reflections" won't do.
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Document Outline
- Title
- About
- Chapter 1 - LEVITICAL.
- Chapter 2 - THE WAGONS.
- Chapter 3 - MR. YORKE.
- Chapter 4 - MR. YORKE (continued).
- Chapter 5 - HOLLOW'S COTTAGE.
- Chapter 6 - CORIOLANUS.
- Chapter 7 - THE CURATES AT TEA.
- Chapter 8 - NOAH AND MOSES.
- Chapter 9 - BRIARMAINS.
- Chapter 10 - OLD MAIDS.
- Chapter 11 - FIELDHEAD.
- Chapter 12 - SHIRLEY AND CAROLINE.
- Chapter 13 - FURTHER COMMUNICATIONS ON BUSINESS.
- Chapter 14 - SHIRLEY SEEKS TO BE SAVED BY WORKS.
- Chapter 15 - MR. DONNE'S EXODUS.
- Chapter 16 - WHITSUNTIDE.
- Chapter 17 - THE SCHOOL FEAST.
- Chapter 18 - WHICH THE GENTEEL READER IS RECOMMENDED TO SKIP, LOW PERSONS BEING HERE INTRODUCED.
- Chapter 19 - A SUMMER NIGHT.
- Chapter 20 - TO-MORROW.
- Chapter 21 - MRS. PRYOR.
- Chapter 22 - TWO LIVES.
- Chapter 23 - AN EVENING OUT.
- Chapter 24 - THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH.
- Chapter 25 - THE WEST WIND BLOWS.
- Chapter 26 - OLD COPY-BOOKS.
- Chapter 27 - THE FIRST BLUESTOCKING.
- Chapter 28 - PHŒBE.
- Chapter 29 - LOUIS MOORE.
- Chapter 30 - RUSHEDGE—A CONFESSIONAL.
- Chapter 31 - UNCLE AND NIECE.
- Chapter 32 - THE SCHOOLBOY AND THE WOOD-NYMPH.
- Chapter 33 - MARTIN'S TACTICS.
- Chapter 34 - CASE OF DOMESTIC PERSECUTION—REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF PIOUS PERSEVERANCE IN THE DISCHARGE OF RELIGIOUS DUTIES.
- Chapter 35 - WHEREIN MATTERS MAKE SOME PROGRESS, BUT NOT MUCH.
- Chapter 36 - WRITTEN IN THE SCHOOLROOM.
- Chapter 37 - THE WINDING-UP.
- Footnotes
Table of Contents
Chapter 4 - MR. YORKE (continued).
Chapter 7 - THE CURATES AT TEA.
Chapter 12 - SHIRLEY AND CAROLINE.
Chapter 13 - FURTHER COMMUNICATIONS ON BUSINESS.
Chapter 14 - SHIRLEY SEEKS TO BE SAVED BY WORKS.
Chapter 15 - MR. DONNE'S EXODUS.
Chapter 17 - THE SCHOOL FEAST.
Chapter 18 - WHICH THE GENTEEL READER IS RECOMMENDED TO SKIP, LOW PERSONS BEING HERE INTRODUCED.
Chapter 24 - THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH.
Chapter 25 - THE WEST WIND BLOWS.
Chapter 27 - THE FIRST BLUESTOCKING.
Chapter 30 - RUSHEDGE—A CONFESSIONAL.
Chapter 32 - THE SCHOOLBOY AND THE WOOD-NYMPH.
Chapter 33 - MARTIN'S TACTICS.
Chapter 34 - CASE OF DOMESTIC PERSECUTION—REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF PIOUS PERSEVERANCE IN THE DISCHARGE
Chapter 35 - WHEREIN MATTERS MAKE SOME PROGRESS, BUT NOT MUCH.