THE NEW ABELARD
A Romance
By Robert Buchanan
Author of ‘The Shadow Of The Sword’ ‘God And The Man’ Etc.
In Three Volumes—Vol. II.
London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly
1884
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XI.—AN ACTRESS AT HOME
CHAPTER XIII.—A RUNAWAY COUPLE.
CHAPTER XVIII.—A SOLAR BIOLOGIST
CHAPTER XIX.—EUSTASIA MAPLELEAFE.
THE NEW ABELARD
CHAPTER XI.—AN ACTRESS AT HOME
On a certain Monday in June, little more than a year after the last letter of the correspondence quoted in the preceding chapter, two young men of the period were seated in the smoking-room of the Traveller’s Club. One was young George Craik, the other was Cholmondeley, of the ‘Charing Cross Chronicle.’
‘I assure you, my dear fellow,’ the journalist was saying, ‘that if you are in want of a religion——’
‘Which I am not,’ interjected George, sullenly.
‘If you are in want of a new sensation, then, you will find this new Church just the thing to suit you. It has now been opened nearly a month, and is rapidly becoming the fashion. At the service yesterday I saw, among other notabilities, both Tyndall and Huxley, Thomas Carlyle, Hermann Vezin the a