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Weighed and Wanting By: George MacDonald (1824-1905) |
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WEIGHED AND WANTING BY GEORGE MACDONALD CONTENTS. I. Bad Weather II. Father, Mother and Son III. The Magic Lantern IV. Hester alone V. Truly the Light is sweet VI. The Aquarium VII. Amy Amber VIII. Cornelius and Vavasor IX. Songs and Singers X. Hester and Amy XI. At Home XII. A Beginning XIII. A private Exhibition XIV. Vavasor and Hester XV. A small Failure XVI. The Concert Room XVII. An uninvited Guest XVIII. Catastrophe XIX. Light and Shade XX. The Journey XXI. Mother and Daughter XXII. Gladness XXIII. Down the Hill XXIV. Out of the Frying pan XXV. Was it into the Fire? XXVI. Waiting a Purpose XXVII. Major H. G. Marvel XXVIII. The Major and Vavasor XXIX. A brave Act XXX. In another Light XXXI. The Major and Cousin Helen's Boys XXXII. A distinguished Guest XXXIII. Courtship in earnest XXXIV. Calamity XXXV. In London XXXVI. A Talk with the Major XXXVII. Rencontres XXXVIII. In the House XXXIX. The Major and the Small pox XL. Down and down XLI. Difference XLII. Deep calleth unto Deep XLIII. Deliverance XLIV. On the Way up XLV. More yet XLVI. Amy and Corney XLVII. Miss Vavasor XLVIII. Mr. Christopher XLIX. An Arrangement L. Things at Home LI. The Return LII. A heavenly Vision LIII. A sad Beginning LIV. Mother and Son LV. Miss Dasomma and Amy LVI. The sick Room LVII. Vengeance is Mine LVIII. Father and Daughter in law LIX. The Message LX. A birthday Gift CHAPTER I. BAD WEATHER. It was a gray, windy noon in the beginning of autumn. The sky and the sea were almost of the same color, and that not a beautiful one. The edge of the horizon where they met was an edge no more, but a bar thick and blurred, across which from the unseen came troops of waves that broke into white crests, the flying manes of speed, as they rushed at, rather than ran towards the shore: in their eagerness came out once more the old enmity between moist and dry. The trees and the smoke were greatly troubled, the former because they would fain stand still, the latter because it would fain ascend, while the wind kept tossing the former and beating down the latter. Not one of the hundreds of fishing boats belonging to the coast was to be seen; not a sail even was visible; not the smoke of a solitary steamer ploughing its own miserable path through the rain fog to London or Aberdeen. It was sad weather and depressing to not a few of the thousands come to Burcliff to enjoy a holiday which, whether of days or of weeks, had looked short to the labor weary when first they came, and was growing shorter and shorter, while the days that composed it grew longer and longer by the frightful vitality of dreariness. Especially to those of them who hated work, a day like this, wrapping them in a blanket of fog, whence the water was every now and then squeezed down upon them in the wettest of all rains, seemed a huge bite snatched by that vague enemy against whom the grumbling of the world is continually directed out of the cake that by every right and reason belonged to them. For were they not born to be happy, and how was human being to fulfill his destiny in such circumstances? There are men and women who can be happy in any even in such circumstances and worse, but they are rare, and not a little better worth knowing than the common class of mortals alas that they will be common! content to be common they are not and cannot be. Among these exceptional mortals I do not count such as, having secured the corner of a couch within the radius of a good fire, forget the world around them by help of the magic lantern of a novel that interests them: such may not be in the least worth knowing for their disposition or moral attainment not even although the noise of the waves on the sands, or the storm in the chimney, or the rain on the windows but serves to deepen the calm of their spirits... Continue reading book >>
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