George Gissing
New Grub Street
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664180698
Table of Contents
CHAPTER IV. AN AUTHOR AND HIS WIFE
CHAPTER VI. THE PRACTICAL FRIEND
CHAPTER VIII. TO THE WINNING SIDE
CHAPTER X. THE FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY
CHAPTER XII. WORK WITHOUT HOPE
CHAPTER XX. THE END OF WAITING
CHAPTER XXI. MR YULE LEAVES TOWN
CHAPTER XXIII. A PROPOSED INVESTMENT
CHAPTER XXIV. JASPER’S MAGNANIMITY
CHAPTER XXV. A FRUITLESS MEETING
CHAPTER XXVI. MARRIED WOMAN’S PROPERTY
CHAPTER XXX. WAITING ON DESTINY
CHAPTER XXXI. A RESCUE AND A SUMMONS
CHAPTER XXXII. REARDON BECOMES PRACTICAL
CHAPTER XXXVI. JASPER’S DELICATE CASE
PART I.
CHAPTER I. A MAN OF HIS DAY
As the Milvains sat down to breakfast the clock of Wattleborough parish church struck eight; it was two miles away, but the strokes were borne very distinctly on the west wind this autumn morning. Jasper, listening before he cracked an egg, remarked with cheerfulness:
‘There’s a man being hanged in London at this moment.’
‘Surely it isn’t necessary to let us know that,’ said his sister Maud, coldly.
‘And in such a tone, too!’ protested his sister Dora.
‘Who is it?’ inquired Mrs. Milvain, looking at her son with pained forehead.
‘I don’t know. It happened to catch my eye in the paper yesterday that someone was to be hanged at Newgate this morning. There’s a certain satisfaction in reflecting that