The Princess of Clèves

The Making of the Linch-pin--The Sound Sleeper--Breakfast--The Postillion's Departure. I awoke at the first break of day, and, leaving the postillion fast asleep, stepped out of t...

The Man in Black--The Emperor of Germany--Nepotism--Donna Olympia--Omnipotence--Camillo Astalli--The Five Propositions. In the evening I received another visit from the man in bla...

Necessity of Religion--The Great Indian One--Image-worship--Shakespeare--The Pat Answer--Krishna--Amen. Having told the man in black that I should like to know all the truth with ...

The Proposal--The Scotch Novel--Latitude--Miracles--Pestilent Heretics--Old Fraser--Wonderful Texts--No Armenian. The man in black having helped himself to some more of his favour...

Fresh Arrivals--Pitching the Tent--Certificated Wife--High-flying Notions. On the following morning, as I was about to leave my tent, I heard the voice of Belle at the door, excla...

The Promised Visit--Roman Fashion--Wizard and Witch--Catching at Words--The Two Females--Dressing of Hair--The New Roads--Belle's Altered Appearance--Herself Again. About mid-day ...

The Festival--The Gypsy Song--Piramus of Rome--The Scotchman--Gypsy Names. On the following day there was much feasting amongst the Romany chals of Mr. Petulengro's party. Throug...

The Church--The Aristocratical Pew--Days of Yore--The Clergyman--"In What Would a Man be Profited?" When two days had passed, Sunday came; I breakfasted by myself in the solitary ...

Return from Church--The Cuckoo and Gypsy--Spiritual Discourse. The service over, my companions and myself returned towards the encampment, by the way we came. Some of the humble ...

Sunday Evening--Ursula--Action at Law--Meridiana--Married Already. I took tea that evening with Mr. and Mrs. Petulengro and Ursula, outside of their tent. Tawno was not present, ...

Ursula's Tale--The Patteran--The Deep Water--Second Husband. "Brother," said Ursula, plucking a dandelion which grew at her feet, "I have always said that a more civil and pleasan...

The Dingle at Night--The Two Sides of the Question--Roman Females--Filling the Kettle--The Dream--The Tall Figure. I descended to the bottom of the dingle. It was nearly involved...

Visit to the Landlord--His Mortifications--Hunter and his Clan--Resolution. On the following morning, after breakfasting with Belle, who was silent and melancholy, I left her in t...

Preparations for the Fair--The Last Lesson--The Verb Siriel. It might be about five in the evening, when I reached the gypsy encampment. Here I found Mr. Petulengro, Tawno Chikno...

The Dawn of Day--The Last Farewell--Departure for the Fair--The Fine Horse--Return to the Dingle--No Isopel. It was about the dawn of day when I was awakened by the voice of Mr. P...

Gloomy Forebodings--The Postman's Mother--The Letter--Bears and Barons--The Best of Advice. Nothing occurred to me of any particular moment during the following day. Isopel Berner...

The Public-house--Landlord on His Legs Again--A Blow in Season--The Way of the World--The Grateful Mind--The Horse's Neigh. It was rather late on the following morning when I awok...

Mr. Petulengro's Device--The Leathern Purse--Consent to Purchase a Horse. As I returned along the road I met Mr. Petulengro and one of his companions, who told me that they were b...

Trying the Horse--The Feats of Tawno--Man with the Red Waist-coat--Disposal of Property. I saw nothing more of Mr. Petulengro that evening--on the morrow, however, he came and inf...

Farewell to the Romans--The Landlord and His Niece--Set Out as a Traveller. On reaching the plain above, I found my Romany friends breakfasting, and on being asked by Mr. Petuleng...

An Adventure on the Road--The Six Flint Stone--A Rural Scene--Mead--The Old Man and His Bees. I bent my course in the direction of the north, more induced by chance than any parti...

The Singular Noise--Sleeping in a Meadow--The Book--Cure for Wakefulness--Literary Tea Party--Poor Byron. I did not awake till rather late the next morning; and when I did, I felt...

Drivers and Front Outside Passengers--Fatigue of Body and Mind--Unexpected Greeting--My Inn--The Governor--Engagement. I continued my journey, passing through one or two villages....

An Inn of Times gone by--A First-rate Publican--Hay and Corn--Old-fashioned Ostler--Highwaymen--Mounted Police--Grooming. The inn, of which I had become an inhabitant, was a place...

the highway, I forthwith asked him how it was that the trade of highwaymen had become extinct in England, as at present we never heard of any one following it. Whereupon he told m...

Stable Hartshorn--How to Manage a Horse on a Journey--Your Best Friend. Of one thing I am certain, that the reader must be much delighted with the wholesome smell of the stable, w...

The Stage--Coachmen of England--A Bully Served Out--Broughton's Guard--The Brazen Head. I lived on very good terms, not only with the master and the old ostler, but with all the d...

Francis Ardry--His Misfortunes--Dog and Lion Fight--Great Men of the World. A few days after the circumstance which I have last commemorated, it chanced that, as I was standing at...

Mr. Platitude and the Man in Black--The Postillion's Adventures--The Lone House--A Goodly Assemblage. It never rains, but it pours. I was destined to see at this inn more acquain...

Deliberations with Self-Resolution--Invitation to Dinner--The Commercial Traveller--The Landlord's Offer--The Comet Wine. It was now that I had frequent deliberations with myself....

Triumphal Departure--No Season like Youth--Extreme Old Age--Beautiful England--The Ratcatcher--A Misadventure. I departed from the inn much in the same fashion as I had come to it...

A Novel Situation--The Elderly Individual--The Surgeon--A Kind Offer--Chimerical Ideas--Strange Dream. How long I remained senseless I cannot say, for a considerable time, I belie...

The Morning after a Fall--The Teapot--Unpretending Hospitality--The Chinese Student. It might be about eight o'clock in the morning when I was awakened by the entrance of the old ...

Convalescence--The Surgeon's Bill--Letter of Recommendation--Commencement of the Old Man's History. Two days--three days passed away--and I still remained at the house of my hospi...

The Old Man's Story continued--Misery in the Head--The Strange Marks--Tea- dealer from London--Difficulties of the Chinese Language. After another pause the old man once more resu...

The Leave-taking--Spirit of the Hearth--What's o'Clock? The next morning, having breakfasted with my old friend, I went into the stable to make the necessary preparations for my d...

Arrival at Horncastle--The Inn and Ostlers--The Garret--Figure of a Man with a Candle. Leaving the house of the old man who knew Chinese, but could not tell what was o'clock, I we...

Horncastle Fair. It had been my intention to be up and doing early on the following morning, but my slumbers proved so profound, that I did not wake until about eight; on arising,...

High Dutch. It was evening: and myself and the two acquaintances I had made in the fair--namely, the jockey and the tall foreigner--sat in a large upstairs room, which looked into...

The Hungarian. "Then you are a countryman of Tekeli, and of the queen who made the celebrated water," said I, speaking to the Hungarian in German, which I was able to do tolerably...

The Horncastle Welcome--Tzernebock and Bielebock. The pipe of the Hungarian had, for some time past, exhibited considerable symptoms of exhaustion, little or no ruttling having be...

The Jockey's Tale--Thieves' Latin--Liberties with Coin--The Smasher in Prison--Old Fulcher--Every One has His Gift--Fashion of the English. "My grandfather was a shorter, and my f...

A Short-tempered Person--Gravitation--The Best Endowment--Mary Fulcher--Fair Dealing--Horse-witchery--Darius and his Groom--The Jockey's Tricks--The Two Characters--The Jockey's So...

The Church. The next morning I began to think of departing; I had sewed up the money which I had received for the horse in a portion of my clothing, where I entertained no fears f...

An Old Acquaintance. Leaving the church, I strolled through the fair, looking at the horses, listening to the chaffering of the buyers and sellers, and occasionally putting in a w...

Murtagh's Tale. "Well, Shorsha, about a year and a half after you left us--and a sorrowful hour for us it was when ye left us, losing, as we did, your funny stories of your snake-...

Murtagh's Story continued--The Priest, Exorcist, and Thimble-engro--How to Check a Rebellion. I was telling ye, Shorsha, when ye interrupted me, that I found the Pope, the rector,...

Departure from Horncastle--Recruiting Sergeant--Kauloes and Lolloes. Leaving Horncastle I bent my steps in the direction of the east. I walked at a brisk rate, and late in the ev...

Lavengro is the history up to a certain period of one of rather a peculiar mind and system of nerves, with an exterior shy and cold, under which lurk much curiosity, especially wit...

The writer will now say a few words about priestcraft, and the machinations of Rome, and will afterwards say something about himself, and his motives for writing against them. Wit...

With respect to the third point, various lessons which the book reads to the nation at large, and which it would be well for the nation to ponder and profit by. There are many spe...

What is gentility? People in different stations in England--entertain different ideas of what is genteel, {4} but it must be something gorgeous, glittering, or tawdry, to be consi...

In the last chapter have been exhibited specimens of gentility, so considered by different classes; by one class power, youth, and epaulets are considered the ne plus ultra of gent...

Of the literature just alluded to Scott was the inventor. It is founded on the fortunes and misfortunes of the Stuart family, of which Scott was the zealous defender and apologist...

Now what could have induced Scott to write novels tending to make people Papists and Jacobites, and in love with arbitrary power? Did he think that Christianity was a gaudy mummer...

The writer now wishes to say something on the subject of canting nonsense, of which there is a great deal in England. There are various cants in England, amongst which is the reli...

A certain set of individuals calling themselves critics have attacked Lavengro with much virulence and malice. If what they call criticism had been founded on truth, the author wo...

as the writer will presently show; not one of these, however, has been detected and pointed out; but the best passages in the book, indeed whatever was calculated to make the book ...

most difficult language but one, of modern Europe,--a book, for a notice of which, he believes, one might turn over in vain the pages of any review printed in England, or, indeed, ...

About Wellington, then, he says, that he believes him at the present day to be infinitely overrated. But there certainly was a time when he was shamefully underrated. Now what ti...

"This very dirty man, with his very dirty face, Would do any dirty act, which would get him a place." Some time ago the writer was set upon by an old Radical and his wife; but ...