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Chapters (55)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. CONTENTS
  4. Foreword to The Cullen Collection
  5. Introduction to Weighed and Wanting
  6. 1. A Bad Weather Holiday
  7. 2. An Eventful Walk
  8. 3. Hester Alone
  9. 4. The Aquarium
  10. 5. Amy Amber
  11. 6. Cornelius and Vavasor
  12. 7. Hester and Amy
  13. 8. A Beginning in Hester
  14. 9. A Private Exhibition
  15. 10. Vavasor and Hester
  16. 11. The Concert Room
  17. 12. Sudden Change
  18. 13. Yrndale
  19. 14. Down the Hill
  20. 15. Out of the Frying Pan
  21. 16. Waiting a Purpose
  22. 17. Major H. G. Marvel
  23. 18. The Major and Vavasor
  24. 19. A Walk Along the River
  25. 20. An Unpleasant Interview
  26. 21. Corney’s Holiday
  27. 22. A Distinguished Guest
  28. 23. Courtship in Earnest
  29. 24. Calamity
  30. 25. In London
  31. 26. A Talk with the Major
  32. 27. A Scuffle
  33. 28. Gartley and the Major
  34. 29. Further Down
  35. 30. Differences
  36. 31. Deep Calleth Unto Deep
  37. 32. Deliverance
  38. 33. On the Way Up
  39. 34. The Attic Room
  40. 35. Amy and Corney
  41. 36. Miss Vavasor
  42. 37. Mr. Christopher
  43. 38. An Arrangement
  44. 39. Things at Yrndale
  45. 40. The Return
  46. 41. A Sad Beginning
  47. 42. Mother and Son
  48. 43. Miss Dasomma and Amy
  49. 44. The Sick Room
  50. 45. Vengeance Is Mine
  51. 46. Father and Daughter-in-law
  52. 47. The Message
  53. 48. A Family
  54. 49. A Birthday Gift
  55. ENDNOTES

She would liked to have written at once, but she did not know exactly where he was. But a far stronger reason against writing was that if she wrote, she could not know how he received her sad story. If his mind required making up, which was what she feared, he would have time for it. She must, therefore, communicate the dread message with her own lips. She must see how he took it! If he showed the slightest change toward her, the least tendency to regard the relationship now as an entanglement that he regretted, she could not marry him. If he could not be her earthly refuge in this trouble, she would have none of him. If it should break her heart she would have none of him! But break her heart it would not! There were worse evils than losing a lover! There was losing a true man.

The behaviour of Cornelius had perhaps made her more capable of doubt. Possibly her righteous anger with him inclined her to imagine grounds of anger with another. Probably this feeling of uncertainty regarding her fiancé had been prepared for by things that had passed between them since their engagement, but upon which she had not allowed herself to dwell. Now she was almost in a mood to quarrel with him. Brought to moral bay, she stood with her head high, her soul roused, and every nerve strung to defence. She had not yet cast herself on the care of her Father in heaven. But he was not far from her.

Yet deeper into the brooding fit she sank. Weary with her journey and the sleepless night, her brain seemed to work itself. Then suddenly came the thought that here she was again in the midst of her poor. But how was she to face them and hold her head up among them now? Who was she, of a family of sinners, to speak a word to them? How lightly the poor bore such ills. Even the honest of them would have this cousin or that uncle in jail for so many months, and think no less of him when he was out again. Nothing could degrade them beyond the reach of their sympathies! They had no thought of priding themselves against another because they themselves had not broken the law.