The Small House at Allington

Serial originally published in the Cornhill Magazine, Sept. 1862 - April 1864. Illustration depicts Mrs. Maria Lupex, Orson Lupex, and Joseph Cradell as in Chapter XI: '"Mr. Cradell, your hand," said Lupex, who had advanced as far as the second glass of brandy-and-water, but had not been allowed to go beyond it. "There has been a misunderstanding between us; let it be forgotten." "Mr. Cradell, if I know him," said the lady, "is too much the gentleman to bear any anger when a gentleman has offered him his hand."'