Chapter I: Front Matter

ALL ALONG THE RIVER

A Novel

BY THE AUTHOR OF

“ISHMAEL,” “VIXEN,” “LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET,” “THE VENETIANS,” Etc.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. “The Rain set early in To-night” 1

II. “But the Days drop One by One” 18

III. “Oh Moment One and Infinite!” 33

IV. “Dreaming, she knew it was a Dream” 50

V. “And the Child-cheek blushing Scarlet for the very Shame
of Bliss” 61

VI. “A Love still burning upward” 73

VII. “Look through mine Eyes with thine, True Wife” 91

VIII. My Frolic Falcon, with Bright Eyes 99

IX. “Lies Nothing buried long ago?” 114

X. “Of the Weak my Heart is Weakest” 124

XI. “Where the Cold Sea raves” 142

XII. “Far, too far off for Thought or any Prayer” 153

XIII. “Under the Pine-wood, Blind with Boughs” 159

XIV. “Say the False Charge was True” 169

XV. “My Life continues yours, and your Life mine” 186

XVI. “Sorrow that’s Deeper than we dream, perchance” 197

XVII. “The Year of the Rose is Brief” 202

XVIII. “No Sudden Fancy of an Ardent Boy” 207

XIX. “I have you still, the Sun comes out again” 222

XX. “Thou Paradise of Exiles, Italy” 230

XXI. “The Woods are round us, Heaped and Dim” 241

XXII. Ecco Roma 248

XXIII. “Seek Shelter in the Shadow of the Tomb” 255

XXIV. “Oh, Old Thoughts they cling, they cling!” 267

XXV. “We’ll bind you Fast in Silken Cords” 273

XXVI. “So, Full Content shall henceforth be my Lot” 282

XXVII. “Gone Deeper than all Plummets sound” 292

XXVIII. “Though Love and Life and Death should come and go” 301

XXIX. “I, you, and God can comprehend each other” 318

ALL ALONG THE RIVER.