JILTED!
OR,
MY UNCLE’S SCHEME.
JILTED!
OR,
MY UNCLE’S SCHEME.
A Novel, in Three Vols.
VOL. III.
London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, LOW, & SEARLE,
CROWN BUILDINGS, FLEET STREET.
1875.

[All Rights Reserved.]
CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,
CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.
CONTENTS.
 PAGE
CHAPTER I.      1
CHAPTER II.      26
CHAPTER III.      48
CHAPTER IV.      80
CHAPTER V.      119
CHAPTER VI.      158
CHAPTER VII.      184
CHAPTER VIII.      207
JILTED!
OR,
MY UNCLE’S SCHEME.
[1]
MY UNCLE’S SCHEME.
CHAPTER I.
“What’s the use of snivelling,
And worrying and drivelling?
Sure you might give over now,
And get another lover.”
A Chorus.
Meanwhile, had I wanted solace, itlay close at hand. Theresa was as kindto me as she had been, on our firstmeeting, rude. I rode with her, sometimestwice a day, and got to like theexercise so well, that I looked forward toit with pleasure. I don’t say the pleasure[2]wasn’t immensely increased by my companion.She talked charmingly, with amixture of vivacity and good sense thatmade her conversation refreshing to listento. She was well-read, as her fatherhad affirmed, but displayed her storeswith so much tact and modesty, that Inever remember hearing her make alearned allusion of which the appropriatenessto the matter under discussion didnot entirely extinguish every suspicion ofpedantry.
It was manifestly her resolution tocharm out of my memory the very falseimpression of her character she hadsought to establish. The sense that myheart belonged to another made herfeel perfectly easy with me. She wouldspeak her mind on a great variety ofsubjects; sentimental arguments were frequent;[3]we could talk of love in an“ai                        
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