A BATTLE
IV. ELEPHANT
V. THE TRAVELLER
VI. ESCAPADE
VII. A DEFEAT
BOOK II.
CONSTANCE
I. REVOLUTION
II. CHRISTMAS AND THE FUTURE
III. CYRIL
IV. CRIME
V. ANOTHER CRIME
VI. THE WIDOW
VII. BRICKS AND MORTAR
VIII. THE PROUDEST MOTHER
BOOK III.
SOPHIA
I. THE ELOPEMENT
II. SUPPER
III. AN AMBITION SATISFIED
IV. A CRISIS FOR GERALD
V. FEVER
VI. THE SIEGE
VII. SUCCESS
BOOK IV.
WHAT LIFE IS
I. FRENSHAM'S
II. THE MEETING
III. TOWARDS HOTEL LIFE
IV. END OF SOPHIA
V. END OF CONSTANCE
BOOK I
MRS. BAINES
CHAPTER I
THE SQUARE
I
Those two girls, Constance and Sophia Baines, paid no heed to the
manifold interest of their situation, of which, indeed, they had
never been conscious. They were, for example, established almost
precisely on the fifty-third parallel of latitude. A little way to
the north of them, in the creases of a hill famous for its
religious orgies, rose the river Trent, the calm and
characteristic stream of middle England. Somewhat further
northwards, in the near neighbourhood of the highest public-house
in the realm, rose two lesser rivers, the Dane and the Dove,
which, quarrelling in early infancy, turned their backs on each
other, and, the one by favour of the Weaver and the other by
favour of the Trent, watered between them the whole width of
England, and poured themselves respectively into the Irish Sea and
the German Ocean.
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