Robert Orange / Being a Continuation of the History of Robert OrangeJohn Oliver Hobbes
Robert Orange / Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange
John Oliver Hobbes
Novel
Book language: English
290 pages
A Victorian novel by John Oliver Hobbes, continuing the story of Robert Orange, M.P., and a sequel to The School for Saints. It opens in 1869 London, where Lady Sara De Treverell, daughter of the Earl of Garrow, steps into her carriage. The book offers a character-driven view of public ambition and private loyalties in the late nineteenth century.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
ROBERT ORANGE BEING A CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF ROBERT ORANGE, M.P. AND A SEQUEL TO THE SCHOOL FOR SAINTS By John Oliver Hobbes LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQUARE. MDCCCC (All rights reserved) CHAPTER I One afternoon during the first weeks of October, 1869, while wind, dust, and rain were struggling each for supremacy in the streets, a small yellow brougham, swung in the old-fashioned style on cumbersome springs and attached to a pair of fine greys, was standing before the Earl of Garrow's town residence in St. James's Square. The hall clock within that mansion chimed four, the great doors were thrown open by two footmen, and a young lady wearing a mauve silk skirt deeply flounced, a black cloth jacket embroidered in gold, and a mauve hat trimmed with plumes—appeared upon the threshold. She paused for a moment to admire the shrubs arranged in boxes on each window-sill, the crimson vines that brightened the grey walls; to criticise the fresh brown rosette under the near horse's ear; to bestow a swift glance upon the harness, the coachman's livery, and the groom's boots. Then she
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