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Wylder's Hand

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The story unfolds with the protagonist, Charles de Cresseron, as he journeys to Gylingden while carrying a letter from Mark Wylder, hinting at a complex interplay of family relations and an impending marriage.

"Wylder's Hand" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is a novel. The story unfolds with the protagonist, Charles de Cresseron, as he journeys to Gylingden while carrying a letter from Mark Wylder, hinting at a complex interplay of family relations and an impending marriage.

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It was late in the autumn, and I was skimming along, through a rich English county, in a postchaise, among tall hedgerows gilded, like all the landscape, with the slanting beams of sunset. The road makes a long and easy descent into the little town of Gylingden, and down this we were going at an exhilarating pace, and the jingle of the vehicle sounded like sledge-bells in my ears, and its swaying and jerking were pleasant and life-like. I fancy I was in one of those moods which, under similar circumstances, I sometimes experience still—a semi-narcotic excitement, silent but delightful.

An undulating landscape, with a homely farmstead here and there, and plenty of old English timber scattered grandly over it, extended mistily to my right; on the left the road is overtopped by masses of noble forest. The old park of Brandon lies there, more than four miles from end to end. These masses of solemn and discoloured verdure, the faint but splendid lights, and long filmy shadows, the slopes and hollows—my eyes wandered over them all with that strange sense of unreality, and that mingling of sweet and bitter fancy, with which we revisit a scene familiar in very remote and early childhood, and which has haunted a long interval of maturity and absence, like a romantic reverie.

Contents

  1. 01Relating How I Drove Through the Village of Gylingden with Mark Wylder's Letter in My Valise.
  2. 02'Mark Wylder.
  3. 03Chapter II.
  4. 04In Which I Enter the Drawing-Room.
  5. 05Chapter III.
  6. 06Our Dinner Party at Brandon.
  7. 07Chapter IV.
  8. 08In Which We Go to the Drawing-Room and the Party Breaks Up.
  9. 09Chapter V.
  10. 10In Which My Slumber Is Disturbed.
  11. 11Chapter VI.
  12. 12In Which Dorcas Brandon Speaks.
  13. 13Chapter VII.
  14. 14Relating How a London Gentleman Appeared in Redman's Dell.
  15. 15Chapter VIII.
  16. 16In Which Captain Lake Takes His Hat and Stick.
  17. 17Chapter IX.
  18. 18I See the Ring of the Persian Magician.
  19. 19Chapter X.
  20. 20The Ace of Hearts.
  21. 21Chapter XI.
  22. 22In Which Lake Under the Trees of Brandon, and I in My Chamber, Smoke Our Nocturnal Cigars.
  23. 23Chapter XII.
  24. 24In Which Uncle Lorne Troubles Me.
  25. 25Chapter XIII.
  26. 26The Pony Carriage
  27. 27Chapter XIV.
  28. 28In Which Various Persons Give Their Opinions of Captain Stanley Lake.
  29. 29Chapter XV.
  30. 30Dorcas Shows Her Jewels to Miss Lake.
  31. 31Chapter XVI.
  32. 32'Jenny, Put the Kettle on.'
  33. 33Chapter XVII.
  34. 34Rachel Lake Sees Wonderful Things by Moonlight from Her Window.
  35. 35Chapter XVIII.
  36. 36Mark Wylder's Slave.
  37. 37'Luke Waggot,
  38. 38'M. Wylder.'
  39. 39Chapter XIX.
  40. 40The Tarn in the Park.
  41. 41'M. Wylder.'
  42. 42Chapter XX.
  43. 43Captain Lake Takes an Evening Stroll About Gylingden.
  44. 44Chapter XXI.
  45. 45In Which Captain Lake Visits His Sister's Sick Bed.
  46. 46'M. Wylder,
  47. 47Chapter XXII.
  48. 48In Which Captain Lake Meets a Friend Near the White House.
  49. 49Chapter XXIII.
  50. 50How Rachel Slept That Night in Redman's Farm.
  51. 51Chapter XXIV.
  52. 52Dorcas Brandon Pays Rachel a Visit.
  53. 53Chapter XXV.
  54. 54Captain Lake Looks in at Nightfall.
  55. 55Chapter XXVI.
  56. 56Captain Lake Follows to London.
  57. 57Chapter XXVII.
  58. 58Lawyer Larkin's Mind Begins to Work.
  59. 59Chapter XXVIII.
  60. 60Mark Wylder's Submission.

About this edition

Author
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
659 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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