PAGE Fitchett, Dr. W. H.: The Man Who Discovered Australia Forgotten Botanist of the Seventeenth Century (A). By Canon John Vaughan Francis, M. E.: The Pulling of the Strings 114 795 325 Filgate Girl With Only One Talent (The). By W. E. Norris Hardy, Thomas: Let Me Enjoy Harrison, Frederic: Charles Eliot Norton High School of Danish Peasants (A). By Edith Sellers J. A. H. Leaves from the Diary of a Tramp Jane Austen at Lyme Regis. By Arthur C. Benson John Thadeus Delane. By the Dean of Canterbury Lang, Andrew: Anti-Jacobite Conspiracies Lang, Mrs. John: The Story of Susan Leaves from the Diary of a Tramp. By J. A. H. Lee, Sidney: Charlotte Brontë in London Lucy, Henry W.: Sixty Years in the Wilderness Macartney-Filgate, Colonel E.: Manchuria―in the Mourne Mountains Man who Discovered Australia (The). By Dr. W. H. Fitchett Martyr for Style (A). By W. P. James Masson, Rosaline: Robert Browning in Edinburgh 202 241 Padelford, Frederick M., Ph.D.: Did Browning Whistle or Sing? . Peter's Boots. By Dorothea Deakin Poe Centenary, Reflections on the. By Thomas Seccombe Pope and the Modern Woman. By J. St. Loe Strachey Priscilla of the Good Intent. By Halliwell Sutcliffe 124, 268, 411, 548, 694, 837 Reflections on the Poe Centenary. By Thomas Seccombe Rise of Moulai Abd el Hafid (The). By L. J. Brown Seccombe, Thomas: Reflections on the Poe Centenary Sellers, Edith: A High School of Danish Peasants Shakespeare's Expostulation. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Choice Stanzas Addressed to the Hon. Charles Parsons, F.R.S. By C. L. G. Strachey, J. St. Loe: Pope and the Modern Woman. Sutcliffe, Halliwell: Priscilla of the Good Intent 124, 268, 411, 548, 694, 837 Their Hearts' Desires. By His Honour Judge Parry Vachell, Horace Annesley: The Paladin Vaughan, Canon John: A Forgotten Botanist of the Seventeenth Wace, Very Rev. H.: John Thadeus Delane THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. JANUARY 1909. A NEW YEAR'S RONDEAU. (Exodus xv. 27.) PALM-TREES and wells they found of yore, Dear, dear is Rest by sea and shore: Whose camping-place not yet has been For such we plead. Shall we ignore Still faring through the night-wind keen, AUSTIN DOBSON. Copyright, 1908, by Austin Dobson, in the United States of America. VOL. XXVI.—NO. 151, N.S. 1 2 THE PALADIN. AS BEHELD BY A WOMAN OF TEMPERAMENT. BY HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. WHICH INTRODUCES OUR PALADIN. ESTHER shed no tears when the lamentable news was told to her by the doctor, who had been summoned hastily in the middle of the night. The blow was so sudden and heavy, as if dealt by a bludgeon, that its effect was to deaden rather than quicken the girl's sensibilities. Her father had died by his own hand! The other blows which followed-loss of fortune, the sense that she must leave her home and the things she loved-hardly made impress at the moment, so dazed was she by the first brutal assault of fate. Not till long afterwards did she realise that, in the highest sense, she had never loved a father who had given undivided energies and interest to an immense business. To his only child, Douglas Yorke had offered toys and sweetmeats, and, as she grew older, whatever else she might want. To ask for anything became to Esther a synonym for receiving it. She never asked for love, because she did not know what love is. Before she was fifteen she had been told that her father spoiled her terribly. This intelligence was accepted calmly, without reflection, in the same spirit with which she accepted chocolates and trinkets. Probably she believed that her father adored her because he gratified every girlish whim. Most undoubtedly she was convinced that she adored him because he had never scolded her, or found fault, or behaved like the fathers of many girls she knew. Once or twice she had wondered why other fathers kissed and caressed Copyright, 1908, by Horace Annesley Vachell, in the United States of America. |