Green Tea
()
About this ebook
Sheridan Le Fanu
J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was an Irish writer who helped develop the ghost story genre in the nineteenth century. Born to a family of writers, Le Fanu released his first works in 1838 in Dublin University Magazine, which he would go on to edit and publish in 1861. Some of Le Fanu’s most famous Victorian Gothic works include Carmilla, Uncle Silas, and In a Glass Darkly. His writing has inspired other great authors of horror and thriller literature such as Bram Stoker and M. R. James.
Read more from Sheridan Le Fanu
Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult: Hidden Magic, Occult Truths, and the Stories That Started It All Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Occult Detective Megapack: 29 Classic Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gothic Terror MEGAPACK ®: 17 Classic Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCarmilla & True Story Of A Vampire: Two Homoerotic Vampire Classics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBox Set - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volumes 1 to 7 (100+ authors & 200+ stories) (Halloween Stories) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSapphic Violets: Lesbian Classics Boxed Set: Sappho, Regiment of Women, Mrs. Dalloway & Carmilla Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHaunted House - Short Stories: Some of literatures greatest stories all based in histories greatest scary setting. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCarmilla Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe 2015 Halloween Horrors MEGAPACK ® Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSupernatural Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Room in the Dragon Volant Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVampires vs. Werewolves Boxed-Set Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCarmilla Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wyvern Mystery Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In a Glass Darkly Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Green Tea
Related ebooks
Wieland; or, the Transformation: An American Tale Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Gates Ajar Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Three Imposters: “I dream in fire but work in clay.” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Skull Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Red Laugh Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Fire Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Monk: A romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Flame Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Was More American than the Americans: Sylvère Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien Grau Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Pockets in a Shroud: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5VIRGINIA WOOLF: The Ambiguity Of Feeling Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVirgin Soil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Human Chord Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaria: or, The Wrongs of Woman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Frogs Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Yellow Wallpaper Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBest Short Stories of Algernon Blackwood Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Castle of Otranto Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Duchess of Malfi Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAll Our Hearts Are Ghosts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGale Researcher Guide for: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Italian Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Natashas Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Mathilda Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe gothic novel in Ireland, <i>c.</i> 1760–1829 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoe's Short Stories (SparkNotes Literature Guide) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe House on Alexandrine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Old English Baron Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Art For You
How to Draw and Paint Anatomy, All New 2nd Edition: Creating Lifelike Humans and Realistic Animals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Designer's Dictionary of Color Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Erotic Photography 120 illustrations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Botanical Drawing: A Step-By-Step Guide to Drawing Flowers, Vegetables, Fruit and Other Plant Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Drawing: Flowers: Learn to Draw Step-by-Step Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Picture This: How Pictures Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anatomy for Fantasy Artists: An Essential Guide to Creating Action Figures & Fantastical Forms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art 101: From Vincent van Gogh to Andy Warhol, Key People, Ideas, and Moments in the History of Art Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Complete Papyrus of Ani Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Drawing School: Fundamentals for the Beginner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Creature Garden: An Illustrator's Guide to Beautiful Beasts & Fictional Fauna Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Creative, Inc.: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Successful Freelance Business Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Green Tea
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Green Tea - Sheridan Le Fanu
Sheridan Le Fanu
Green Tea
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066427399
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CONCLUSION.
In a Glass Darkly - chap head 4.pngCHAPTER I.
Table of Contents
DR. HESSELIUS RELATES HOW HE MET
THE REV. MR. JENNINGS.
THE Rev. Mr. Jennings is tall and thin. He is middle-aged, and dresses with a natty, old-fashioned, high-church precision. He is naturally a little stately, but, not at all stiff. His features, without being handsome, are well formed, and their expression extremely kind, but also shy.
I met him one evening at Lady Mary Heyduke's. The modesty and benevolence of his countenance are extremely prepossessing.
We were but a small party, and he joined agreeably enough in the conversation. He seems to enjoy listening very much more than contributing to the talk; but what he says is always to the purpose and well said. He is a great favourite of Lady Mary's, who it seems, consults him upon many things, and thinks him the most happy and blessed person on earth. Little knows she about him.
The Rev. Mr. Jennings is a bachelor, and has, they say, sixty thousand pounds in the funds. He is a charitable man. He is most anxious to be actively employed in his sacred profession, and yet though always tolerably well elsewhere, when he goes down to his vicarage in Warwickshire, to engage in the actual duties of his sacred calling his health soon fails him, and in a very strange way. So says Lady Mary.
There is no doubt that Mr. Jennings' health does break down in, generally a sudden and mysterious way, sometimes in the very act of officiating in his old and pretty church at Kenlis. It may be his heart, it may be his brain. But so it has happened three or four times, or oftener, that after proceeding a certain way in the service, he has on a sudden stopped short, and after a silence, apparently quite unable to resume, he has fallen into solitary, inaudible prayer, his hands and eyes uplifted, and then pale as death, and in the agitation of a strange shame and horror, descended trembling, and got into the vestry-room, leaving his congregation, without explanation, to themselves. This occurred when his curate was absent. When he goes down to Kenlis, now, he always takes care to provide a clergyman to share his duty, and to supply his place on the instant should he become thus suddenly incapacitated.
When Mr. Jennings breaks down quite, and beats a retreat from the vicarage, and returns to London, where, in a dark street off Piccadilly, he inhabits a very narrow house, Lady Mary says that he is always perfectly well. I have my own opinion about, that. There are degrees of course. We shall see.
Mr. Jennings is a perfectly gentlemanlike man. People, however, remark something odd. There is an impression a little ambiguous. One thing which certainly contributes to it, people I think don't remember; or, perhaps, distinctly remark. But I did, almost immediately. Mr. Jennings has a way of looking sidelong upon the carpet, as if his eye followed the movements of something there. This, of course, is not always. It occurs only now and then. But often enough to give a certain oddity, as I have said to his manner, and in this glance travelling along the floor there is something both shy and anxious.
A medical philosopher, as you are good enough to