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Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs

R. D. Blackmore

Set during the Napoleonic Wars in Sussex and Spain, it follows siblings from the noble Lorraine family as they struggle to save their household from ruin.

"Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs" by R. D. Blackmore is a novel. Set during the Napoleonic Wars in Sussex and Spain, it follows siblings from the noble Lorraine family as they struggle to save their household from ruin.

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Westward of that old town Steyning, and near Washington and Wiston, the lover of an English landscape may find much to dwell upon. The best way to enjoy it is to follow the path along the meadows, underneath the inland rampart of the Sussex hills. Here is pasture rich enough for the daintiest sheep to dream upon; tones of varied green in stripes (by order of the farmer), trees as for a portrait grouped, with the folding hills behind, and light and shadow making love in play to one another. Also, in the breaks of meadow and the footpath bendings, stiles where love is made in earnest, at the proper time of year, with the dark-browed hills imposing everlasting constancy.

Any man here, however sore he may be from the road of life, after sitting awhile and gazing, finds the good will of his younger days revive with a wider capacity. Though he hold no commune with the heights so far above him, neither with the trees that stand in quiet audience soothingly, nor even with the flowers still as bright as in his childhood, yet to himself he must say something—better said in silence. Into his mind, and heart, and soul, without any painful knowledge, or the noisy trouble of thinking, pure content with his native land and its claim on his love are entering. The power of the earth is round him with its lavish gifts of life,—bounty from the lap of beauty, and that cultivated glory which no other land has earned.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. All in the Downs.
  2. 02Chapter II. Coombe Lorraine.
  3. 03Chapter III. Lineage and Lineaments.
  4. 04Chapter IV. Father and Favourite.
  5. 05Chapter V. The Legend of the Astrologer.
  6. 06Chapter VI. The Legend Continued.
  7. 07Chapter VII. The Legend Concluded.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. Astrological Forecast.
  9. 09Chapter IX. The Legacy of the Astrologer.
  10. 10Chapter X. A Boy and a Donkey.
  11. 11Chapter XI. Chamber Practice.
  12. 12Chapter XII. With the Costermongers.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. To the Cherry-Orchards.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. Beauties of the Country.
  15. 15Chapter XV. Oh, Ruddier Than the Cherry!
  16. 16Chapter XVI. Oh, Sweeter Than the Berry!
  17. 17Chapter XVII. Very Shy Things.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. The Key of the Gate.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Four Young Ladies.
  20. 20Chapter XX. A Rector of the Olden Style.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. A Notable Lady.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. A Malignant Case.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. The Baiter Baited.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. A Fatherly Suggestion.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. The Well of the Sibyl.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. An Opportune Envoy.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. A Good Parson’s Holiday.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. Not to Be Resisted.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. Absurd Surds.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. Our Lad Steenie.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. In a Marching Regiment.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. Public and Private Opinion.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. Rags and Bones.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. Under Deadly Fire.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. How to Fry No Pancakes.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. Lady Coke Upon Littleton.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. Aches v. Acres.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. In the Deadly Breach.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. Sherry Sack.
  40. 40Chapter XL. Beneath Bright Eyes.
  41. 41Chapter XLI. Donnas Pray and Practise.
  42. 42Chapter XLII. An Unwelcome Escort.
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. In Among the Big-Wigs.
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. How to Take Bad Tidings.
  45. 45Chapter XLV. Innocence in No Sense.
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. Hard Riding and Hard Reading.
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. Try to Think the Best of Me.
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII. Something Worth Kissing.
  49. 49Chapter XLIX. A Dangerous Commission.
  50. 50Chapter L. Sterling and Striking Affection.
  51. 51Chapter LI. Empty Lockers.
  52. 52Chapter LII. Be No More Officer of Mine.
  53. 53Chapter LIII. Farewell, All You Spanish Ladies.
  54. 54Chapter LIV. Going Up the Tree.
  55. 55Chapter LV. The Woeburn.
  56. 56Chapter LVI. Going Down the Hill.
  57. 57Chapter LVII. The Pledge of a Life.
  58. 58Chapter LVIII. A Hero’s Return.
  59. 59Chapter LIX. The Grave of the Astrologer.
  60. 60Chapter LX. Courtly Manners.

About this edition

Author
R. D. Blackmore
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
563 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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