Under Which Lord - 2 Author:Eliza Lynn Linton Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Original Publisher: B. Tauchnitz Subjects: English fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Juvenile Fiction / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR repri... more »nt of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. FROM INFORMATION RECEIVED. It is one thing to resolve to "speak about it," and another thing to do it, when that speaking involves the chance of placing oneself in a false position and doing more harm than good; as Ringrove confessed to himself when he thought on Monday morning how he should best tell Richard Fullerton of his last night's experience at Churchlands, and put into his hand this ugly end of a twisted and embarrassing clue. He felt sure that his friend did not know how things really stood between his own family and the Vicarage ; and it was only right that he should be told. But it was a difficult thing to do, and might be a thankless task when done. Besides, no honourable man likes to go into a house as a guest and leave it as an informer; and yet the need for this small social treachery seemed to Ringrove to be imperative. For very love's sake those dear women must be denounced to him who alone had power to stop their downward course. For their own good they must be hurt nowthat they might be saved from destruction hereafter ; brought back to right reason and self-respect before they had committed themselves irrevocably to the degradation of clerical despotism. All the same, reason it out as he might, it was unpleasant ; and no one could have more disliked the office which he had imposed on himself than did poor Ringrove, who, the soul of loyalty and hono...« less