Edited by Charles Aldarondo (aldarondo@yahoo.com)

GEORGE GISSING

THYRZA






CHAPTER I

AMONG THE HILLS





There were three at the breakfast-table--Mr. Newthorpe, his
daughter Annabel, and their visitor (Annabel's Cousin), Miss Paula
Tyrrell. It was a small, low, soberly-furnished room, the walls
covered with carelessly-hung etchings and water-colours, and with
photographs which were doubtless mementoes of travel; dwarf
bookcases held overflowings from the library; volumes in disorder,
clearly more for use than ornament. The casements were open to let
in the air of a July morning. Between the thickets of the garden the
eye caught glimpses of sun-smitten lake and sheer hillside; for the
house stood on the shore of Ullswater.