# A fatal silence, vol. 2 (of 3)

Author: Marryat, Florence, 1833-1899

Genre: English fiction -- 19th century

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78596

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+fatal+silence%2C+vol.+2+%28of+3%29+Marryat&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Hal Rushton was very anxious that Mrs Sutton should live with Paula and himself at Deepdale. The old lady was fragile, and he thought it would gratify his future wife to make the last years of her mother’s life comfortable. He would have liked to see the unfortunate offspring of Carl Bjornsën put away in an asylum, or under judicious guardianship, and so have removed from his sight and memory for ever all trace of Paula’s first marriage. And if he could only forget it, as if it had never been (he said to himself), he should be so inexplicably happy. But, as Paula had anticipated, Mrs Sutton refused either to live at Highbridge Hall or to give up the charge of her little grandson. She love...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-fatal-silence-vol-2-of-3-78596/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-fatal-silence-vol-2-of-3-78596/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-fatal-silence-vol-2-of-3-78596/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-fatal-silence-vol-2-of-3-78596/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-fatal-silence-vol-2-of-3-78596/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-fatal-silence-vol-2-of-3-78596/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-fatal-silence-vol-2-of-3-78596/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-fatal-silence-vol-2-of-3-78596/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-fatal-silence-vol-2-of-3-78596/chapters/7/index.md)