JILTED!
OR,
MY UNCLE’S SCHEME.
JILTED!
OR,
MY UNCLE’S SCHEME.
A Novel, in Three Vols.
VOL. II.
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. | 34 |
| CHAPTER III. | 58 |
| CHAPTER IV. | 86 |
| CHAPTER V. | 113 |
| CHAPTER VI. | 139 |
| CHAPTER VII. | 162 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | 181 |
| CHAPTER IX. | 212 |
JILTED!
OR,
MY UNCLE’S SCHEME.
Creepmouse. “In love a young man should climb—notstoop. Yes, sir, to a young man like Tom, marriageshould be a ladder, not a pit.”
Retired from Business.
My uncle Dick amply vindicated hisbrother’s eulogium of his conversationalpowers. When, at the bank, I had beheldthe stout, big form of my relative,and heard his bluff and highly familiarlanguage, I believed him to be as nearlyrelated to a boor as any man of his sizeand age can be. But my opinion of him[2]underwent a very remarkable change whenI listened to and watched him as he satand talked at his brother’s dinner-table.His manner then was perfectly polite;positively there were certain points in hisbehaviour which my father might havebeheld with envy and admiration. Addedto this, he was exceedingly well read;talked French with a good accent, andquoted Latin with a happy applicabilitythat robbed its employment of all flavourof pedantry.
I had nothing to say. I was eclipsed.His jokes kept us all in high spirits.His anecdotes (which I can appreciatebetter now than I could then) were uniformlyexcellent. He appeared to knoweverybody; spoke with a kind of dignifiedfamiliarity of noblemen of reputation,of famous actors, of celebrated authors.[3]He had supped with Lamb and