Lesbia Newman (1889)

by Henry Robert Samuel Dalton

Lesbia Newman

LESBIA NEWMAN.

A desperate charge of the French cavalry cleared the ground, bearing down the tall flagstaff as an avalanche would a reed, and with a horrid smash sacrificing many horses, as well as the limbs of their riders, against the squat round lighthouse, Roche's Tower.—[Page 218.]

LESBIA NEWMAN

A NOVEL

 

BY

HENRY ROBERT S. DALTON

 

LONDON
GEORGE REDWAY
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1889

EDINBURGH
COLSTON AND COMPANY
PRINTERS

ERRATA.

Page	34,	17th	Line,	read	elevation;
"	39,	18th	"	"	reason for it.’
"	113,	18th	"	"	toward him?
Ibid.		footnote,		"	Compare p. 22.
Page	124,	footnote,		"	Ref. p. 34.
"	175,	28th	"	"	another land,
"	179,	33rd	"	"	sparsely-attended
"	184,	11th	"	"	Dundagel
"	192,	1st	"	"	cliffs
"	199,	10th	"	"	another moment
"	217,	28th	"	"	Fort Camden,
"	240,	19th	"	"	died nobly
"	241,	32nd	"	"	St Gervais
"	251,	23d	"	"	grasp
"	278,	28th	"	"	morality,
"	283,	4th	"	"	convert himself into a human
"	311,	6th	"	"	from it
"	315,	22d	"	"	for the common

CONTENTS.

Chapter		Page
	Preface,	vii
I.	The inmates of Dulham Vicarage,	1
II.	Fidgfumblasquidiot,	7
III.	Bill and Joe,	10
IV.	An Afternoon at Ruddymere,	15
V.	An Edifying Sunday,	20
VI.	A Luncheon Out,	28
VII.	Mrs Newman's Dream,	38
VIII.	Mr Lockstable's Courtship,	48
IX.	Mr Bristley mounts his Hobby, and brings the Dream upon Lesbia,	58
X.	Reformed Horseback in a Run with the Frogmore,	64
XI.	More Country Life,	80
XII.	Seeing Lettie Off,	83
XIII.	The Background of the Dream,	89
XIV.	Home News, and Interviewing a Nationalist,	97
XV.	Lesbia's Correspondence, and the Penumbra of the Dream upon Letitia,	103
XVI.	The Correspondence continued,	107
XVII.	The Same,	112
XVIII.	The Correspondence concluded,	119
XIX.	Englishwomen and the Politics of the Day,	126
XX.	From Country to Town,	131
XXI.	Frivolous and Important,	135
XXII.	The Screaming Farce Bill,	143
XXIII.	Toward the Flaminian Gate,	152
XXIV.	Gathering Clouds,	165
XXV.	Another Victim of Juggernaut,	170
XXVI.	Complications and Conflagration,	173
XXVII.	Approaching the Reality,	181
XXVIII.	'But it shall not come nigh thee',	187
XXIX.	The 13th of October 189—,	193
XXX.	The 13th of October 189—,	198
XXXI.	The 13th of October 189—,	200
XXXII.	Retrospect—Marshalling the Forces,	208
XXXIII.	The Double Battle of Queenstown,	215
XXXIV.	Night and Reflections,	224
XXXV.	The Severence of Ireland,	231
XXXVI.	At Ruddymere again,	233
XXXVII.	Leading to the Second Part,	240
XXXVIII.	The Papacy in Trouble—The Pisa-Vitri Persecution,	245
XXXIX.	Some Minor Effects of the British Revolution of 189—. Ousebrige,	249
XL.	Disestablished, but Vivified,	256
XLI.	Clenching the Nail, and the Corona of the Dream upon the Cardinal,	259
XLII.	The Axe to the Root of the Tree,	268
XLIII.	Mr Mountjoy gives our Frieds a Bit of his Mind,	276
XLIV.	In Church with the Mylittists,	282
XLV.	A Party at Home,	287
XLVI.	The Same—Mr Bristely on Old and New Style,	300
XLVII.	The Council of London, a.d. 1900,	308
XLVIII.	The Re-settling of the Waters,	314
XLIX.	Reconciliation,	318
L.	Before Westminster Abbey,	322