Hetty Wesley

Chapter 7 No.7

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drive Hetty over to Kelstein, arrived with his gig. Sukey accompanied him, to

ey in her to perceive why and how: nevertheless, being a Wesley, she kept a steady face on her pain. Stung at times to echo Dick's sentiments and opinions, as it were in self-d

rful. She had little or none of that grace by which her sisters walked in the commonest cotton frocks as queens. In c

d of three large mock water-lilies on a little mat of muslin, and was perched on her piled hair so high aloft that their gaze, as

ly talkative. The others scarcely spoke. At length Hetty, who had been struggling to swallow a biscuit,

Whitelamb bent over a map, with his back to the light. He glanced up as she entered: she could not well read his eyes for

llison is in

ears in

hes to

my compliments and assu

s at the door. I have

be button-holed by Dick Ellison." He rose and stood eyeing her, pinching his c

ere, sir, as the others do at home. I do not mean outwardly: but to feel,

f course. There is alwa

thinking

, Mr. Grantham, is an honest gentlem

l that I am earning something more?-that if, as times goes on, my co

etab

apa! I cannot

from her cry, and strode across the room in his irritation. Her hands fell, and

g-which I detest-I find him vain, foppish, insincere. He has levitas with levitas: I believe his heart to be as shallow as his head. I know him to be no fit mate for one of my daughters; least of all for you who have gifts above your sisters-gifts which I have recognised and tried to improve. Child, summon your pride to you, and let it help your obedienc

kely to be before a prince came across those dreary fields to the thatched parsonage, seeking her. But

d her face. "Good-bye,

ught better of it and returned to the window. He heard the door close upon her

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“Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arthur Quiller-Couch 'Hetty Wesley.'Hetty Wesley is a story of the eighteenth century in England, introducing John and Charles, brothers of the heroine.Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He published his Dead Man's Rock (a romance in the vein of Stevenson's Treasure Island) in 1887, and he followed this up with Troy Town (1888) and The Splendid Spur (1889). After some journalistic experience in London, mainly as a contributor to the Speaker, in 1891 he settled at Fowey in Cornwall. He published in 1896 a series of critical articles, Adventures in Criticism, and in 1898 he completed Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel, St Ives. With the exception of the parodies entitled Green Bays: Verses and Parodies (1893), his poetical work is contained in Poems and Ballads (1896). In 1895 he published an anthology from the sixteenth and seventeenth-century English lyrists, The Golden Pomp, followed in 1900 by an equally successful Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (1900). He was made a Bard of Gorseth Kernow in 1928, taking the Bardic name Marghak Cough ('Red Knight').Quiller-Couch was a noted literary critic, publishing editions of some of Shakespeare's plays (in the New Shakespeare, published by Cambridge University Press, with Dover Wilson) and several critical works, including Studies in Literature (1918) and On the Art of Reading (1920). He edited a successor to his verse anthology: Oxford Book of English Prose, which was published in 1923. He left his autobiography, Memories and Opinions, unfinished; it was nevertheless published in 1945.”