NEARER AND DEARER.
LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.
‘He was playing billiards in a savage, careless way–missing and making “flukes,” and forcing his antagonist to come off the conqueror.’–Page 7.
NEARER AND DEARER:
A Tale out of School.
“Has she a Brother?
Has she a nearer one
Still, and a dearer one
Yet than all other?”–Hood.
A NOVELETTE,
By CUTHBERT BEDE, B. A.,
AUTHOR OF “VERDANT GREEN.”
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1857.
[Right of Translation and Dramatic adaptation reserved.]
WITH MUCH AFFECTION,
I DEDICATE THIS LITTLE TALE
TO MY UNCLE,
W. B.,
WHO HAS SHEWN MUCH INTEREST
IN THIS NOVELETTE,
BUT FAR MORE IN
ITS AUTHOR.
June, 1857.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
| 1 |
CHAPTER II.
| 14 |
CHAPTER III.
| 25 |
CHAPTER IV.
| 36 |
CHAPTER V.
| 45 |
CHAPTER VI.
| 56 |
CHAPTER VII.
| 64 |
CHAPTER VIII.
| 72 |
CHAPTER IX.
| 82 |
CHAPTER X.
| 90 |
CHAPTER XI.
| 101 |
CHAPTER XII.
| 113 |
CHAPTER XIII.
| 122 |
CHAPTER XIV.
| 131 |
CHAPTER XV.
| 139 |
CHAPTER XVI.
| 152 |
CHAPTER XVII.
| 165 |
CHAPTER XVIII.
| 175 |
This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.