GRAY, MAXWELL Silence of Dean Maitland

Griffin, Gerald
  The Collegians

Habberton, John
  Helen’s Babies

Halevy, Ludovic
  Abbe Constantin

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  The Scarlet Letter
  House of the Seven Gables

Hichens, Robert
  The Garden of Allah

Holmes, Oliver Wendell
  Elsie Venner

Hughes, Thomas
  Tom Brown’s Schooldays
  Tom Brown at Oxford

Hugo, victor
  Les Miserables
  Notre Dame de Paris
  The Toilers of the Sea
  The Man Who Laughs

Inchbald, Elizabeth
  A Simple Story

James, G.P.R. 
  Henry Masterton

Johnson, Samuel
  Rasselas

Jokai, Maurice
  Timar’s Two Worlds

Kernahan, Coulson
  A Dead Man’s Diary

Kingsley, Charles
  Alton Locke
  Hereward the Wake
  Hypatia
  Two Years Ago
  Water-Babies
  Westward Ho!

Kingsley, Henry
  Geoffry Hamlyn
  Ravenshoe

A Complete Index of the world’s greatest books will be found at the end of Volume XX.

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MAXWELL GRAY

The Silence of Dean Maitland

Mary Gleed Tuttiett, the gifted lady who writes under the pseudonym of “Maxwell Gray,” was born at Newport, Isle of Wight.  The daughter of Mr. F.B.  Tuttiett, M.R.C.S., she began her literary career by contributing essays, poems, articles, and short stones to various periodicals.  With the appearance of “The Silence of Dean Maitland,” in 1886, Maxwell Gray’s name was immediately and permanently established in the front rank of living novelists.  The story and its problem, dramatically set forth, and with rare literary art, became one of the most discussed themes of the day.  Since that time Maxwell Gray has produced a number of stories, among them being “The Reproach of Annesley” (1888), “The Last Sentence” (1893), “The House of Hidden Treasure” (1898), and “The Great Refusal” (1906), and also several volumes of poems.  This little version of “The Silence of Dean Maitland” has been prepared by Miss Tuttiett herself.

I.—­Impending Tragedy

The story opens on a grey October afternoon in the Isle of Wight, in the ’sixties.  Alma Lee, the coachman’s handsome young daughter, is toiling up a steep hill overlooking Chalkburne, tired and laden with parcels from the town.  As she leans on a gate, Judkins, a fellow-servant of her father’s, drives up in a smart dog-cart, and offers her a lift home.  She refuses scornfully, to the young groom’s mortification; he drives off, hurt by her coquetry and prophesying that pride goes before a fall.