The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(王德弗尔大厅的房客)

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The Tenant of

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Anne Brontë

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The Tenant of

Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë

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Anne Brontë                                                                                                              ElecBook Classics
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CONTENTS
Click on page number to go to Chapter
Volume I ..................................................................................................7
To J. Halford, Esq...................................................................................8
Chapter 1. A Discovery.........................................................................10
Chapter 2. An Interview.......................................................................23
Chapter 3. A Controversy ....................................................................30
Chapter 4. The Party............................................................................41
Chapter 5. The Studio..........................................................................52
Chapter 6. Progression.........................................................................58
Chapter 7. The Excursion....................................................................68
Chapter 8. The Present........................................................................83
Chapter 9. A Snake in the Grass.........................................................90
Chapter 10. A Contract and a Quarrel.............................................105
Chapter 11. The Vicar Again.............................................................112
Chapter 12. A Tête-à-tête and a Discovery......................................119
Chapter 13. A Return to Duty ...........................................................132
Chapter 14. An Assault.......................................................................138
Chapter 15. An Encounter and its Consequences .........................147
Chapter 16. The Warnings of Experience.......................................157
Chapter 17. Further Warnings..........................................................173
Chapter 18. The Miniature ................................................................184

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Chapter 19. An Incident.....................................................................200
Volume II.............................................................................................209
Chapter 20. Persistence .....................................................................210
Chapter 21. Opinions..........................................................................220
Chapter 22. Traits of Friendship ......................................................226
Chapter 23. First Weeks of Matrimony............................................246
Chapter 24. First Quarrel...................................................................253
Chapter 25. First Absence .................................................................264
Chapter 26. The Guests......................................................................278
Chapter 27. A Misdemeanour ...........................................................283
Chapter 28. Parental Feelings...........................................................292
Chapter 29. The Neighbour...............................................................297
Chapter 30. Domestic Scenes............................................................309
Chapter 31. Social Virtues.................................................................326
Chapter 32. Comparisons: Information Rejected...........................345
Chapter 33. Two Evenings.................................................................362
Chapter 34. Concealment ..................................................................379
Chapter 35. Provocations...................................................................386
Chapter 36. Dual Solitude .................................................................394
Chapter 37. The Neighbour Again ...................................................400
Volume III...........................................................................................414
Chapter 38. The Injured Man............................................................415
Chapter 39. A Scheme of Escape......................................................429

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Chapter 40. A Misadventure..............................................................447
Chapter 41. ‘Hope Springs Eternal in the Human
Breast’...................................................................................................453
Chapter 42. A Reformation................................................................462
Chapter 43. The Boundary Past .......................................................469
Chapter 44. The Retreat.....................................................................478
Chapter 45. Reconciliation ................................................................488
Chapter 46. Friendly Counsels..........................................................507
Chapter 47. Startling Intelligence ....................................................516
Chapter 48. Further Intelligence......................................................532
Chapter 49. Doubts and Disappointments......................................552
Chapter 50. An Unexpected Occurrence.........................................564
Chapter 51. Fluctuations ...................................................................576
Chapter 52. Conclusion......................................................................586

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Volume I

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To J. Halford, Esq.

Dear Halford,

When we were together last, you gave me a very particular and

interesting account of the most remarkable occurrences of your

early life, previous to our acquaintance; and then you requested a

return of confidence from me. Not being in a story-telling humour

at the time, I declined, under the plea of having nothing to tell, and

the like shuffling excuses, which were regarded as wholly

inadmissible by you; for though you instantly turned the

conversation, it was with the air of an uncomplaining, but deeply

injured man, and your face was overshadowed with a cloud which

darkened it to the end of our interview, and, for what I know,

darkens it still; for your letters have, ever since, been

distinguished by a certain dignified, semi-melancholy stiffness and

reserve, that would have been very affecting, if my conscience had

accused me of deserving it.

Are you not ashamed, old boy—at your age, and when we have

known each other so intimately and so long, and when I have

already given you so many proofs of frankness and confidence,

and never resented your comparative closeness and taciturnity?—

But there it is, I suppose; you are not naturally communicative,

and you thought you had done great things, and given an

unparalleled proof of friendly confidence on that memorable

occasion—which, doubtless, you have sworn shall be the last of the

kind,—and you deemed that the smallest return I could make for

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so mighty a favour would be to follow your example without a

moment’s hesitation.—

Well!—I did not take up my pen to reproach you, nor to defend

myself, not to apologize for past offences, but, if possible, to atone

for them.

It is a soaking, rainy day, the family are absent on a visit, I am

alone in my library, and have been looking over certain musty old

letters and papers, and musing on past times; so that I am now in

a very proper frame of mind for amusing you with an old world

story;—and, having withdrawn my well-roasted feet from the hobs,

wheeled round to the table, and indited the above lines to my

crusty old friend, I am about to give him a sketch—no not a

sketch,—a full and faithful account of certain circumstances

connected with the most important event in my life—previous to

my acquaintance with Jack Halford at least;—and when you have

read it, charge me with ingratitude and unfriendly reserve if you

can.

I know you like a long story, and are as great a stickler for

particularities and circumstantial details as my grandmother, so I

will not spare you: my own patience and leisure shall be my only

limits.

Among the letters and papers I spoke of, there is a certain faded

old journal of mine, which I mention by way of assurance that I

have not my memory alone—tenacious as it is—to depend upon; in

order that your credulity may not be too severely taxed in

following me through the minute details of my narrative.—To

begin then, at once, with Chapter First,—for it shall be a tale of

many chapters.—

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Chapter 1

A Discovery

ou must go back with me to the autumn of 1827.

My father, as you know, was a sort of gentleman farmer

in —shire; and I, by his express desire, succeeded him in

the same quiet occupation, not very willingly, for ambition urged

me to higher aims, and self-conceit assured me that, in

disregarding its voice, I was burying my talent in the earth, and

hiding my light under a bushel. My mother had done her utmost to

persuade me that I was capable of great achievements; but my

father, who thought ambition was the surest road to ruin, and

change but another word for destruction, would listen to no

scheme for bettering either my own condition, or that of my fellow

mortals. He assured me it was all rubbish, and exhorted me, with

his dying breath, to continue in the good old way, to follow his

steps, and those of his father before him, and let my highest

ambition be, to walk honestly through the world, looking neither

to the right hand nor to the left, and to transmit the paternal acres

to my children in, at least, as flourishing a condition as he left

them to me.

‘Well!—an honest and industrious farmer is one of the most

useful members of society; and if I devote my talents to the

cultivation of my farm, and the improvement of agriculture in

general, I shall thereby benefit, not only my own immediate

connections and dependants, but, in some degree, mankind at

large:—hence I shall not have lived in vain.’

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