妻と娘たち — エリザベス・ギャスケル
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : Wives and Daughters Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Release date : July 1, 2003 [eBook #4274] Most recently updated: February 20, 2025 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4274 Credits : Charles Aldarondo and Joseph E. Loewenstein *** START OF Elizabeth Gaskell died suddenly in November, 1865. She had completed all but the last chapter, and in that sense the book, which many consider her masterpiece, is unfinished. The editor of the Cornhill Magazine , Frederick Greenwood, appended his comments about Mrs. Gaskell's intentions for the conclusion and about Mrs. Gaskell as a person. Those comments are included at the end of this e-book. Wives and Daughters was first published in book form in 1866 by Smith, Elder. Both the Cornhill serial and the Smith, Elder first edition had eighteen full-page illustrations by George du Maurier, and those are included in this e-book. The Cornhill edition also had small illustrations at the beginning of seventeen chapters, and those too are included. Molly's New Bonnet. WIVES AND DAUGHTERS. AN EVERY-DAY STORY. BY MRS. GASKELL. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE DU MAURIER. CONTENTS I. THE DAWN OF A GALA DAY. II. A NOVICE AMONGST THE GREAT FOLK. III. MOLLY GIBSON'S CHILDHOOD. IV. MR. GIBSON'S NEIGHBOURS. V. CALF-LOVE. VI. A VISIT TO THE HAMLEYS. VII. FORESHADOWS OF LOVE PERILS. VIII. DRIFTING INTO DANGER. IX. THE WIDOWER AND THE WIDOW. X. A CRISIS. XI. MAKING FRIENDSHIP. XII. PREPARING FOR THE WEDDING. XIII. MOLLY GIBSON'S NEW FRIENDS. XIV. MOLLY FINDS HERSELF PATRONIZED. XV. THE NEW MAMMA. XVI. THE BRIDE AT HOME. XVII. TROUBLE AT HAMLEY HALL. XVIII. MR. OSBORNE'S SECRET. XIX. CYNTHIA'S ARRIVAL. XX. MRS. GIBSON'S VISITORS. XXI. THE HALF-SISTERS. XXII. THE OLD SQUIRE'S TROUBLES. XXIII. OSBORNE HAMLEY REVIEWS HIS POSITION. XXIV. MRS. GIBSON'S LITTLE DINNER. XXV. HOLLINGFORD IN A BUSTLE. XXVI. A CHARITY BALL. XXVII. FATHER AND SONS. XXVIII. RIVALRY. XXIX. BUSH-FIGHTING. XXX. OLD WAYS AND NEW WAYS. XXXI. A PASSIVE COQUETTE. XXXII. COMING EVENTS. XXXIII. BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS. XXXIV. A LOVER'S MISTAKE. XXXV. THE MOTHER'S MANŒUVRE. XXXVI. DOMESTIC DIPLOMACY. XXXVII. A FLUKE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT. XXXVIII. MR. KIRKPATRICK, Q.C. XXXIX. SECRET THOUGHTS OOZE OUT. XL. MOLLY GIBSON BREATHES FREELY. XLI. GATHERING CLOUDS. XLII. THE STORM BURSTS. XLIII. CYNTHIA'S CONFESSION. XLIV. MOLLY GIBSON TO THE RESCUE. XLV. CONFIDENCES. XLVI. HOLLINGFORD GOSSIPS. XLVII. SCANDAL AND ITS VICTIMS. XLVIII. AN INNOCENT CULPRIT. XLIX. MOLLY GIBSON FINDS A CHAMPION. L. CYNTHIA AT BAY. LI. "TROUBLES NEVER COME ALONE." LII. SQUIRE HAMLEY'S SORROW. LIII. UNLOOKED-FOR ARRIVALS. LIV. MOLLY GIBSON'S WORTH IS DISCOVERED. LV. AN ABSENT LOVER RETURNS. LVI. "OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE, AND ON WITH THE NEW." LVII. BRIDAL VISITS AND ADIEUX. LVIII. REVIVING HOPES AND BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS. LIX. MOLLY GIBSON AT HAMLEY HALL. LX. ROGER HAMLEY'S CONFESSION. CONCLUDING REMARKS. [By the Editor of The Cornhill Magazine .] ILLUSTRATIONS MOLLY'S NEW BONNET. A LOVE LETTER. VÆ VICTIS! THE NEW MAMMA. UNWELCOME ATTENTIONS. SHAKSPEARE AND THE MUSICAL GLASSES. FIRST IMPRESSIONS. ROGER IS INTRODUCED AND ENSLAVED. "TU T'EN REPENTIRAS, COLIN." "WHY, OSBORNE, IS IT YOU?" THE BURNING OF THE GORSE. THE LAST TURNING. "OH! IT IS NO WONDER!" "I TRUST THIS WILL NEVER OCCUR AGAIN, CYNTHIA!" THERE STOOD MR. PRESTON AND CYNTHIA. LADY HARRIET ASKS ONE OR TWO QUESTIONS. "MAMAN, MAMAN!" "CYNTHIA'S LAST LOVER." CHAPTER I. THE DAWN OF A GALA DAY. o begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that room there was a bed, and in that bed there lay a little girl; wide awake and longing to get up, but not daring to do so for fear of the unseen power in the next room—a certain Betty, whose slumbers must not be disturbed until six o'clock struck, when she wakened of herself "as sure as clockwork," and left the household very little peace afterwards. It was a June morning, and early as it was, the room was full of sunny warmth and light. On the drawers opposite to the little white dimity bed in which Molly Gibson lay, was a primitive kind of bonnet-stand on which was hung a bonnet, carefully covered over from any chance of dust with a large cotton handkerchief, of so heavy and serviceable a texture that if the thing underneath it had been a flimsy fabric of gauze and lace and flowers, it would have been altogether "scomfished" (again to quote from Betty's vocabulary). But the bonnet was made of solid straw, and its only trimming was a plain white ribbon put over the crown, and forming the strings. Still, there was a neat little quilling inside, every plait of which Molly knew, for had she not made it herself the evening before, with infinite pains? and was there not a little blue bow in this quilling, the very first bit of such finery Molly had ever had the prospect of wearing? Six o'clock now! the pleasant, brisk ringing of the church bells told that; calling every one to their daily work, as they had done for hundreds of years. Up jumped Molly, and ran with her bare little feet across the room, and lifted off the handkerchief and saw once again the bonnet; the pledge of the gay bright day to come. Then to the window, and after some tugging she opened the casement, and let in the sweet morning air. The dew was already off the flowers in the garden below, but still rising from the long hay-grass in the meadows directly beyond. At one side lay the little town of Hollingford, into a street of which Mr. Gibson's front door opened; and delicate columns, and little puffs of smoke wer