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Millbank

Mary Jane Holmes

The story revolves around Roger Irving, a young boy who inherits his family’s estate, Millbank, after the sudden death of his father.

"Millbank; or, Roger Irving's Ward" by Mary Jane Holmes is a novel. The story revolves around Roger Irving, a young boy who inherits his family’s estate, Millbank, after the sudden death of his father.

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Every window and shutter at Millbank was closed. Knots of crape were streaming from the bell-knobs, and all around the house there was that deep hush which only the presence of death can inspire. Indoors there was a kind of twilight gloom pervading the rooms, and the servants spoke in whispers whenever they came near the chamber where the old squire lay in his handsome coffin, waiting the arrival of Roger, who had been in St. Louis when his father died, and who was expected home on the night when our story opens. Squire Irving had died suddenly in the act of writing to his boy Roger, and when found by old Aleck, his hand was grasping the pen, and his head was resting on the letter he would never finish. “Heart disease” was the verdict of the inquest, and then the electric wires carried the news of his decease to Roger, and to the widow of the squire’s eldest son, who lived on Lexington avenue, New York, and who always called herself Mrs. Walter Scott Irving, fancying that in some way the united names of two so illustrious authors as Irving and Scott shed a kind of literary halo upon one who bore them.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. Expecting Roger.
  2. 02Chapter II. Roger’s Story.
  3. 03Chapter III. What They Did at Millbank.
  4. 04Chapter IV. The Morning of the Funeral.
  5. 05Chapter V. The Funeral.
  6. 06Chapter VI. The Evening After the Funeral.
  7. 07Chapter VII. Millbank After the Day of the Funeral.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. The Stranger in Belvidere.
  9. 09Chapter IX. A Stir at Millbank.
  10. 10Chapter X. Frank at Millbank.
  11. 11Chapter XI. Roger’s Letters and the Result.
  12. 12Chapter XII. Alice Grey.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. A Retrospect.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. In the Evening.
  15. 15Chapter XV. Roger and Frank.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. Life at Millbank.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. Love-Making at Millbank.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. The Loose Board in the Garret.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. The Beginning of Trouble.
  20. 20Chapter XX. What Magdalen Found in the Garret.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. Frank and the Will.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. Mrs. Walter Scott and the Will.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. Roger and the Will.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. Hester and the Will.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. Magdalen and Roger.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. ‘Squire Irving’s Letter.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. Jessie’s Letter.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII the World and the Will.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. Poor Magda.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. Leaving Millbank.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. The Home in Schodick.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. Magdalen’s Decision.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. The Beginning of the End.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. Mrs. Penelope Seymour.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. Alice and Magdalen.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. Mr. Grey and Magdalen.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. Life at Beechwood.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. The Mystery at Beechwood.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. Magdalen and the Mystery.
  40. 40Chapter XL. A Glimmer of Light.
  41. 41Chapter XLI. Mrs. Seymour and Magdalen.
  42. 42Chapter XLII. In Cincinnati.
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. In Cynthiana.
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. Father and Daughter.
  45. 45Chapter XLV. At Beechwood.
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. The Clouds Break Over Beechwood.
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. Bell Burleigh.
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII. The Wedding, and Hester Floyd’s Account of It.
  49. 49Chapter XLIX. How They Lived at Millbank.
  50. 50Chapter L. Roger.
  51. 51Chapter LI. Magdalen Is Coming Home.
  52. 52Chapter LII. Millbank Is Sold at Auction.
  53. 53Chapter LIII. Magdalen at Roger’s Home.
  54. 54Chapter LIV. Roger and Magdalen.
  55. 55Chapter LV. Millbank Is Clear of Its Old Tenants.
  56. 56Chapter LVI. The Bridal.
  57. 57Chapter LVII. Christmas-Tide.

About this edition

Author
Mary Jane Holmes
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
395 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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