# At the Councillor's; or, A Nameless History

Author: Marlitt, E. (Eugenie), 1825-1887; Wister, A. L. (Annis Lee), 1830-1908 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43393

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=At+the+Councillor%27s%3B+or%2C+A+Nameless+History+Marlitt&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The rays of a December sun shone dimly into a room in the large castle mill, calling forth feeble sparks of light from the strange objects lying on the broad stone window-sill, and then vanishing in a bank of snow-clouds that were rising slowly but steadily in the west. The objects sparkling so strangely on the window-sill were some portion of a surgeon's apparatus; those instruments the cold, steely glitter of which startles the eye and sends a shudder through the nerves of many a brave man. A huge bedstead, the head and footboard clumsily painted with gaudy roses and carnations, and piled with feather-beds and patchwork quilts, stood directly in the broad light from the window, and upon...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-councillor-s-or-a-nameless-history-43393/chapters/23/index.md)