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THE
PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE,
Vol. II.
Printed by A. Strahan,
New-Street-Square, London.
THE
PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE,
A
NOVEL,
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
BY
MISS JANE PORTER,
AUTHOR OF THADDEUS OF WARSAW, SIDNEY'S APHORISMS, AND THE SCOTTISHCHIEFS.
I will confess the ambitious projects which I once had, are dead withinme. After having seen the parts which fools play upon the great stage; afew books, and a few friends, are what I shall seek to finish my dayswith.
TWEDDELL.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1817.
CONTENTS.
- CHAP. I. 1
- CHAP. II. 25
- CHAP. III. 53
- CHAP. IV. 88
- CHAP. V. 114
- CHAP. VI. 145
- CHAP. VII. 172
- CHAP. VIII. 198
- CHAP. IX. 229
- CHAP. X. 269
- CHAP. XI. 287
- CHAP. XII. 311
- CHAP. XIII. 345
- CHAP. XIV. 367
THE
PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE,
Vol. II.
CHAP. I.
Next morning's rayless sun found Louis passing from his hardly pressedpillow, to the prosecution of his appointed task for the day. Ignatiushad laid before him new papers, of a totally different character fromthe former, and much more difficult to transcribe.
As he continued to write, he heard the furious beating of a snow-stormagainst the windows, which, in this apartment, were not only gratedbut too high in the wall to allow of outward view. The heat of awell-filled stove excluded the encreased cold of the season; and thefierce[2]ness of the elements made him the less regret the exercise hemust relinquish, or lose all hope of reducing the immense piles beforehim.
The Sieur appeared at his former nocturnal hour, to receive what hadbeen finished, and to leave other manuscripts to which he desiredduplicates. Day after day Louis was kept close to his desk, and everynight delivered to his unrelenting task-master the labour of the day.
At the expiration of a week, the Sieur told him he should not seehim again till the first of the ensuing month; but that he had acorrespondence to leave with him, which he must comp