There and Back

1 CHAPTER I: It would be but stirring a muddy pool to inquire--not what motives 2 CHAPTER II: The rumour of Sir Wilton's marriage was, as rumour seldom is, correct. 3 CHAPTER III: She read until every sound had died in the house, every sound from 4 CHAPTER IV: It was the middle of the day before they were missed. Their absence 5 CHAPTER V: At school, Richard had been friendly with a boy of gentle nature, not 6 CHAPTER VI: Simon Armour was past only the agility, not the strength of his youth, 7 CHAPTER VII: All things belong to every man who yields his selfishness, which is his 8 CHAPTER VIII: It was now late in the autumn. Several houses in the neighbourhood were 9 CHAPTER IX: Richard was willing enough, and it only remained to settle what they 10 CHAPTER X: Simon and Richard followed the man through a narrow door in the thick 11 CHAPTER XI: Soon after his visit to Mortgrange, the young bookbinder went home, 12 CHAPTER XII: In the spring came a letter from young Lestrange, through Simon Armour, 13 CHAPTER XIII: He went to bed, and after a dreamless night, rose to find the world 14 CHAPTER XIV: After some talk, it was settled that Richard should work in the large 15 CHAPTER XV: It was the height of the season, and sir Wilton and lady Ann were in 16 CHAPTER XVI: Hardly had Lestrange left the room, when Barbara entered, noiseless as 17 CHAPTER XVII: At this point, Barbara's friend came into the room, and they went away 18 CHAPTER XVIII: Mr. Wylder was lord of the manor, and chief land-owner, though his 19 CHAPTER XIX: To make all this quite credible to a doubting reader, it would be 20 CHAPTER XX: While the two talked in the same pulverous fashion, the words came very 21 CHAPTER XXI: Mr. Wingfold went as he had come, thoughtful even to trouble. What was 22 CHAPTER XXII: The rector had often wished his wife could in some natural way get hold 23 CHAPTER XXIII: From so early an age had Richard been accustomed to despise a certain 24 CHAPTER XXIV: Barbara had more than once or twice heard Mr. Wingfold preach, but had 25 CHAPTER XXV: Thomas Wingfold closed his book, replaced it in his pocket, got down 26 CHAPTER XXVI: One evening Richard went to see his grandfather, and asked if he would 27 CHAPTER XXVII: He hurried back over the bare, moon-white road. He had seen Miss Wylder 28 CHAPTER XXVIII: As they went, neither said much. Both seemed to avoid the subject of 29 CHAPTER XXIX: It was weeks before Alice was able to leave her bed: she had been 30 CHAPTER XXX: Barbara rode home with strange things in her mind. Here was a romance 31 CHAPTER XXXI: The bickerings between her father and mother had had not a little to do 32 CHAPTER XXXII: Two days after, on a lovely autumn evening, Barbara rode Miss Brown 33 CHAPTER XXXIII: Barbara turned her mare across the road, and sent her at the hedge. 34 CHAPTER XXXIV: The same afternoon appeared Barbara--as none knew when she might not 35 CHAPTER XXXV: It was a happy thing for both Richard and Barbara, that Barbara was now 36 CHAPTER XXXVI: It would have been difficult for Arthur himself to say whether in his 37 CHAPTER XXXVII: The same afternoon, Richard was mending the torn title of a 38 CHAPTER XXXVIII: She went to find him, told him what had happened to the young man, and, 39 CHAPTER XXXIX: A new experience had come to Mrs. Wylder. Her passion over the death of 40 CHAPTER XL: It was into the first of the London fogs of the season that Richard, 41 CHAPTER XLI: But Richard soon began to recover both from the separation and from his 42 CHAPTER XLII: But while thus Richard suffered, scarce knew, and cared nothing, how 43 CHAPTER XLIII: The moment he received his wages from his father at the end of the 44 CHAPTER XLIV: Some men hunt their fellows to prey upon them, and fill their own 45 CHAPTER XLV: Before the next Monday, he had learned the outlets of the hall, and the 46 CHAPTER XLVI: He turned and walked home--but with a heart how different! The world 47 CHAPTER XLVII: That night Richard could not rest. His brain wrought unceasingly. 48 CHAPTER XLVIII: The spring advanced; the days grew a little warmer; and at length, 49 CHAPTER XLIX: The day after, well wrapt from the cold, he took his place in a slow 50 CHAPTER L: The godless old man was strangely moved. He rose, but instead of 51 CHAPTER LI: The more sir Wilton's anger subsided, the more his heart turned to 52 CHAPTER LII: When Richard reached London, he went straight to Clerkenwell. There he 53 CHAPTER LIII: The next post brought a letter from Simon Armour, saying, after his own 54 CHAPTER LIV: Barbara's brother, her father's twin, was fast following her mother's 55 CHAPTER LV: The same evening Barbara rode to the smithy, in the hope of hearing 56 CHAPTER LVI: Barbara went yet oftener to Mr. and Mrs. Wingfold. By this time, 57 CHAPTER LVII: Arthur Lestrange was sharply troubled when he found he was to see no 58 CHAPTER LVIII: It was a lovely morning when Richard, his heart beating with a hope 59 CHAPTER LIX: When the first delight of their meeting was abated, Simon sent to let 60 CHAPTER LX: As the dinner-hour drew nigh, Richard went to the drawing-room, 61 CHAPTER LXI: When he came to the parsonage, which he had to pass on his way to the 62 CHAPTER LXII: For a few weeks, things went smoothly enough. Not a jar occurred in the 63 CHAPTER LXIII: Richard took Barbara home, and the same night started for London. 64 CHAPTER LXIV: It was about a year after Richard's return to his trade, when one 65 CHAPTER LXV: The day so often in Wingfold's thought, arrived at last--the 66 CHAPTER LXVI: Mr. Wylder could not well object to sir Richard Lestrange on the ground