ISABEL CLARENDON
BY GEORGE GISSING.
In Two Volumes.
Vol. I.
London: Chapman And Hall, Limited
Charles Dickens And Evans, Crystal Palace Press
1886
“C’était plus qu’une vue, hélas! c’était un monde Qui s’était effacé!”
CONTENTS
ISABEL CLARENDON.
CHAPTER I.
From Salcot East to Winstoke there are two roads, known respectively as the old and the new. The latter was made about the middle of the present century; the old road is immemorial. By the modern highway the distance between the two parishes is rather less than five miles; pursue the other, and you fetch a compass of well-nigh ten, taking into account all the inexplicable windings and angularities between the “White Hart Inn” at Salcot, where the roads disdainfully part company, to Winstoke Rectory, where they unite and form the village street. It says much for ancestral leisureliness in that north-west corner of ———shire, that the old way ever established itself, or, being established, was used to so recent a date; on the other hand, the construction of the new thoroughf