Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time By: Agnes Maule Machar (1837-1927)
First Page: E text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Early Canadiana Online (http://www.canadiana.org) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online. See http://canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09594?id=5b9f5a0ba6973c09 ROLAND GRAEME: KNIGHT A Novel of Our Time by AGNES MAULE MACHAR Author of "Stories of New France," "Marjorie's Canadian Winter," etc. " To Ride Abroad, Redressing Human Wrongs " Montreal Wm. Drysdale & Company Entered according to Act of Parliament, in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Ninety Two, by W. Drysdale & Co., in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa. TO Lyman Abbott, D.D., ONE OF THE FIRST VOICES IN AMERICA TO ENFORCE THE RELATION OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE LABOR PROBLEM, THESE PAGES ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. "The highest truth the wise man sees he will fearlessly utter; knowing that, let what may come of it, he is thus playing his right part in the world; knowing that, if he can effect the change he aims at well: if not well also; though not so well." HERBERT SPENCER. CONTENTS. I. ROLAND'S THREE VISITS II. A TWILIGHT REVERIE III. AN UNEXPECTED INTERRUPTION IV. A CONSULTATION V. A FAMILY PARTY VI. LOOKING BACKWARD VII. A MIDNIGHT MEETING VIII. NORA'S DREAM IX. IN THE HOSPITAL X. A FIRESIDE TALK XI. THORNS AND ROSES XII. TABLE TALK XIII. PIPPA PASSES XIV. A REPORTER AT CHURCH XV. HELPING HANDS XVI. A LUNCHEON PARTY XVII. A CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT XVIII. AFTERNOON VISITORS XIX. "MODERN MIRACLES" XX. BREAKERS AHEAD XXI. WORK AND WAGES XXII. NORA'S STRATEGY XXIII. UNEXPECTED DENOUEMENTS XXIV. A REVELATION XXV. BEWILDERMENT XXVI. AN EMPTY PLACE XXVII. A THUNDER BOLT XXVIII. CONSCIENCE STRICKEN XXIX. RECONCILIATION XXX. AN EASTER MORNING XXXI. AN UNEXPECTED PROPOSAL XXXII. A NARROW ESCAPE XXXIII. IN ARCADY XXXIV. LOOKING FORWARD ROLAND GRAEME, KNIGHT. CHAPTER I. ROLAND'S THREE VISITS. The Reverend Cecil Chillingworth sat in his quiet study, absorbed in the preparation of his next Sunday evening's discourse. It was to be one of those powerful pulpit "efforts" so comprehensive in its grasp, so catholic in its spirit, so suggestive in its teachings for which Mr. Chillingworth, to quote the Minton Minerva , "was deservedly famous." In fact, this "fame" of his sat already like "black care" on his shoulders; or, as the Minton Minerva might have said, had it only known the secret, like a jockey determined on all occasions to whip and spur him up to his own record. The strongest forces are often those of which the subject of them is least conscious, and, though Mr. Chillingworth would not have admitted it to himself, he stood in mortal dread of "falling off" in his reputation as a preacher. Should that happen, he would feel or so he would have put it to himself that his "usefulness was gone," a reason that would have justified to him every possible effort to avert the calamity. He was now hard at work, with the critical presence of the reporter of the Minerva painfully before his mind, as he racked his brain for new and original thoughts, fresh illustrations, apt and terse expressions, with an eager anxiety that often threatened to put too great a strain on even his fine and well balanced physique . There were indeed already, in his inward experience, some unwelcome tokens of overstrain in a growing nervous irritability, and a miserable day, now and then, in which all the brightness of life, and faith, and hope seemed to disappear before the deadly touch of nervous prostration... Continue reading book >>

Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time By: Agnes Maule Machar (1837-1927)

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ROLAND GRAEME: KNIGHT

A Novel of Our Time

AGNES MAULE MACHAR

Author of "Stories of New France," "Marjorie's Canadian Winter," etc.

" To Ride Abroad, Redressing Human Wrongs "

Montreal Wm. Drysdale & Company

Entered according to Act of Parliament, in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Ninety Two, by W. Drysdale & Co., in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa.

TO Lyman Abbott, D.D., ONE OF THE FIRST VOICES IN AMERICA TO ENFORCE THE RELATION OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE LABOR PROBLEM, THESE PAGES ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

"The highest truth the wise man sees he will fearlessly utter; knowing that, let what may come of it, he is thus playing his right part in the world; knowing that, if he can effect the change he aims at well: if not well also; though not so well."

HERBERT SPENCER.

CONTENTS.

I. ROLAND'S THREE VISITS

II. A TWILIGHT REVERIE

III. AN UNEXPECTED INTERRUPTION

IV. A CONSULTATION

V. A FAMILY PARTY

VI. LOOKING BACKWARD

VII. A MIDNIGHT MEETING

VIII. NORA'S DREAM

IX. IN THE HOSPITAL

X. A FIRESIDE TALK

XI. THORNS AND ROSES

XII. TABLE TALK

XIII. PIPPA PASSES

XIV. A REPORTER AT CHURCH

XV. HELPING HANDS

XVI. A LUNCHEON PARTY

XVII. A CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT

XVIII. AFTERNOON VISITORS

XIX. "MODERN MIRACLES"

XX. BREAKERS AHEAD

XXI. WORK AND WAGES

XXII. NORA'S STRATEGY

XXIII. UNEXPECTED DENOUEMENTS

XXIV. A REVELATION

XXV. BEWILDERMENT

XXVI. AN EMPTY PLACE

XXVII. A THUNDER BOLT

XXVIII. CONSCIENCE STRICKEN

XXIX. RECONCILIATION

XXX. AN EASTER MORNING

XXXI. AN UNEXPECTED PROPOSAL

XXXII. A NARROW ESCAPE

XXXIII. IN ARCADY

XXXIV. LOOKING FORWARD

ROLAND GRAEME, KNIGHT.

CHAPTER I.

ROLAND'S THREE VISITS.

The Reverend Cecil Chillingworth sat in his quiet study, absorbed in the preparation of his next Sunday evening's discourse. It was to be one of those powerful pulpit "efforts" so comprehensive in its grasp, so catholic in its spirit, so suggestive in its teachings for which Mr. Chillingworth, to quote the Minton Minerva , "was deservedly famous." In fact, this "fame" of his sat already like "black care" on his shoulders; or, as the Minton Minerva might have said, had it only known the secret, like a jockey determined on all occasions to whip and spur him up to his own record. The strongest forces are often those of which the subject of them is least conscious, and, though Mr. Chillingworth would not have admitted it to himself, he stood in mortal dread of "falling off" in his reputation as a preacher. Should that happen, he would feel or so he would have put it to himself that his "usefulness was gone," a reason that would have justified to him every possible effort to avert the calamity.

He was now hard at work, with the critical presence of the reporter of the Minerva painfully before his mind, as he racked his brain for new and original thoughts, fresh illustrations, apt and terse expressions, with an eager anxiety that often threatened to put too great a strain on even his fine and well balanced physique . There were indeed already, in his inward experience, some unwelcome tokens of overstrain in a growing nervous irritability, and a miserable day, now and then, in which all the brightness of life, and faith, and hope seemed to disappear before the deadly touch of nervous prostration... Continue reading book >>

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