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Contents. Chapter: I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., XI., XII., XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII., XVIII., XIX., XX., XXI., XXII., XXIII., XXIV., XXV. (etext transcriber's note) |
A House in Bloomsbury
A House in Bloomsbury
By
MRS. OLIPHANT
New York
International Association of Newspapers and Authors
1901
Copyright, 1894, by
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
All rights reserved.
NORTH RIVER BINDERY CO.
PRINTERS AND BINDERS
NEW YORK
A HOUSE IN BLOOMSBURY.
CHAPTER I.
“Father,” said Dora, “I am going upstairs for a little, to see Mrs.Hesketh, if you have no objection.”
“And who is Mrs. Hesketh, if I might make so bold as to ask?” Mr.Mannering said, lifting his eyes from his evening paper.
“Father! I told you all about her on Sunday—that she’s all alone allday, and sometimes her husband is so late of getting home. She is solonely, poor little thing. And she is such a nice little thing! Married,but not so big as me.”
“And who is—— her husband?” Mr. Mannering was about to say, but hechecked himself. No doubt he had heard all about the husband too. Heheard many things without hearing them, being conscious rather of thepleasant voice of Dora running on than of everything she said.
This had, no doubt, been the case in respect to the young coupleupstairs, of whose existence he had become dimly sensible by reason ofmeeting one or other of them on the stairs. But there was nothing in theappearance of either which had much attracted him. They appeared to him{2}a commonplace couple of inferior kind; and perhaps had he been a manwith all his wits keenly about him, he would not have allowed his childto run wild about the little woman upstairs. But Mr. Mannering did notkeep his wits about him sharpened to any such point.
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