An Old Man's Love

MRS BAGGETT. Mr William Whittlestaff was strolling very slowly up and down the long walk at his country seat in Hampshire, thinking of the contents of a letter which he held crush...

MR WHITTLESTAFF. Mr Whittlestaff had not been a fortunate man, as fortune is generally counted in the world. He had not succeeded in what he had attempted. He had, indeed, felt bu...

MARY LAWRIE. There is nothing more difficult in the writing of a story than to describe adequately the person of a hero or a heroine, so as to place before the mind of the reader ...

MARY LAWRIE ACCEPTS MR WHITTLESTAFF. By the end of the week Mary Lawrie had changed her mind. She had thought it over, and had endeavoured to persuade herself that Mr Whittlestaff...

"I SUPPOSE IT WAS A DREAM." It seemed to her, as she sat there at the window, that she ought to tell Mrs Baggett what had occurred. There had been that between them which, as she ...

JOHN GORDON. Mrs Baggett walked into her master's room, loudly knocking at the door, and waiting for a loud answer. He was pacing up and down the library, thinking of the injustic...

JOHN GORDON AND MR WHITTLESTAFF. Mr Gordon had gone out to South Africa with the settled intention of doing something that might enable him to marry Mary Lawrie, and he had carrie...

JOHN GORDON AND MARY LAWRIE. The door was closed, and John Gordon and Mary were alone together. She was still seated, and he, coming forward, stood in front of her. "Mary," he sai...

THE REV MONTAGU BLAKE. John Gordon, when he left the room, went out to look for Mr Whittlestaff, but was told that he had gone into the town. Mr Whittlestaff had had his own troub...

JOHN GORDON AGAIN GOES TO CROKER'S HALL. On the next morning, when John Gordon reached the corner of the road at which stood Croker's Hall, he met, outside on the roadway, close t...

MRS BAGGETT TRUSTS ONLY IN THE FUNDS. Mr Whittlestaff, when he was left alone in the long walk, was disturbed by many troublesome thoughts. The knowledge that his housekeeper was ...

MR BLAKE'S GOOD NEWS. In the afternoon, after lunch had been eaten, there came a ring at the back-door, and Mr Montagu Blake was announced. There had been a little _contretemps_ o...

AT LITTLE ALRESFORD. Mr Hall was a pleasant English gentleman, now verging upon seventy years of age, who had "never had a headache in his life," as he was wont to boast, but who ...

MR WHITTLESTAFF IS GOING OUT TO DINNER. "There's an invitation come, asking us to dine at Little Alresford to-day." This was said, soon after breakfast, by Mr Whittlestaff to Mary...

MR WHITTLESTAFF GOES OUT TO DINNER. This would be her last opportunity. So Mary told herself as she got out of the carriage at Mr Hall's front door. It was made manifest to her by...

MRS BAGGETT'S PHILOSOPHY. The next day was Saturday, and Mr Whittlestaff came out of his room early, intending to speak to Mrs Baggett. He had declared to himself that it was his ...

MR WHITTLESTAFF MEDITATES A JOURNEY. The next day was Sunday, and was passed in absolute tranquillity. Nothing was said either by Mr Whittlestaff or by Mary Lawrie; nor, to the ey...

MR AND MRS TOOKEY. On the day arranged, early on the morning after the dinner at Little Alresford Park, John Gordon went up to London. He had not been much moved by the intimation...

MR WHITTLESTAFF'S JOURNEY DISCUSSED. "I don't think that if I were you I would go up to London, Mr Whittlestaff," said Mary. This was on the Tuesday morning. "Why not?" "I don't...

MR WHITTLESTAFF TAKES HIS JOURNEY. Mr Whittlestaff did at last get into the train and have himself carried up to London. And he ate his sandwiches and drank his sherry with an air...

THE GREEN PARK. He asked whether Mr John Gordon was within, and in two minutes found himself standing in the hall with that hero of romance. Mr Whittlestaff told himself, as he lo...

JOHN GORDON WRITES A LETTER. When they parted in the park, Mr Whittlestaff trudged off to his own hotel, through the heat and sunshine. He walked quickly, and never looked behind ...

AGAIN AT CROKER'S HALL. About three o'clock on that day Mr Whittlestaff came home. The pony-carriage had gone to meet him, but Mary remained purposely out of the way. She could no...

CONCLUSION. The day came at last on which Mary's visit to Little Alresford was to commence. Two days later John Gordon was to arrive at the Parsonage, and Mary's period of being "...

for "man his" in the sentence: In some things his life had been successful; but these were matters in which the world does not write down a MAN'S good luck as being generally...

substituted for "loving him" in the sentence: After all that has passed between us, you can hardly go on LIVING HERE as you have done....

substituted for "that than" in the sentence: The weather is very hot, and from morning till night there is no occupation other THAN THAT of looking for diamonds, and the work...

fellow living than Mr Furnival, or his wife, or his four daughters." might leave the reader wondering who is Mr Furnival, as the name does not appear again in the text. The m...

sentence: "I don't know any spot on God's earth that I should be less likely to choose AS my abiding resting-place."...

for "come" in the sentence: "What is it he means, Miss?" said Mrs Baggett, when the master was GONE....

for "has" in the sentence: For indeed her life in public,--her life, that is, to which Mrs Baggett HAD access,--had been in some degree disturbed since the departure of the m...

for "was" in the sentence: You whom I had always loved and prayed for, when I knew not where you WERE!...