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The Changeling

Walter Besant

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Molly; "but he must. He leaves his money at home, and carries his fiddle. Oh, heavenly!"

"Why not? I fiddle on village greens and in rustic inns. I camp among the gipsies; I walk with the tramps and casuals. There is no more pleasant life, believe me!"

He began to sing in a light, musical tenor—

"When daffodils began to peer,
With heigh! the doxy over the dale,
Why then comes in the sweet o' the year;
For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.
The lark that tirra-lirra chants
With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,
Are summer songs for me and my aunts,
While we lie tumbling in the hay."

"You are a strange man," said Hilarie. "Come and see me again."

"I am a vagabond," he replied, "and my name is Autolycus."

Dick took off his hat and bowed low, not in Piccadilly style at all; he waved his hand to Molly; he glared defiance at Humphrey, who loftily bent hi. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Loved this book! I thought, when I picked it up, that it was a fairytale kind of story, but it's nothing close to that. Still, I wasn't disappointed for a second. The characters are fascinating and dynamic, and the themes are timeless as the story itself. Excellent read, and I couldn't put it down!

Starts well -- a high-placed and wealthy lady secretly adopts a son in order to replace her own dead child. Fast forward eighteen years, and the real mother (now herself a rich woman) seeks the child that she had given up, one who's grown up to be an awful person.

And the novel kind of falters on th