Category: Romance
IT IN HIS GLOWING HANDS" II. MR. PASTERN'S LETTER III. MR. JAMES CONYERS IV. THE TRAINER'S MESSENGER V. OUT IN THE RAIN VI. MONEY MATTERS VII. CAPTAIN PRODDER VIII. "HE ONLY SAID, I AM A-WEARY" IX. STILL CONSTANT X. ON THE THRESHOLD OF DARKER MISERIES XI. CAPTAIN PRODDER CARRI...
The bare-headed seafaring man who stood in the centre of the hall was Captain Samuel Prodder. The scared faces of the servants gathered round him told more plainly than his own...
8. CHAPTER VI.Archibald Floyd was very lonely at Felden Woods without his daughter. He took no pleasure in the long drawing-room, or the billiard-room and library, or the pleasant galleries,...
11. CHAPTER IX.Mr. James Conyers took his breakfast in his own apartment upon the morning after his visit to Doncaster, and Stephen Hargraves waited upon him; carrying him a basin of muddy cof...
7. CHAPTER V.The second dinner-bell rang five minutes after the "Softy" had left Aurora, and Mr. John Mellish came out upon the lawn to look for his wife. He came whistling across the grass,...
13. CHAPTER XI.While Aurora stood upon the threshold of the open window, a man was lingering upon the broad stone steps before the door of the entrance hall, remonstrating with one of John Mel...
5. CHAPTER III.The first week in July brought James Conyers, the new trainer, to Mellish Park. John had made no particular inquiries as to the man's character of any of his former employers, a...
6. CHAPTER IV.Mr. James Conyers made himself very much at home at Mellish Park. Poor Langley, the invalid trainer, who was a Yorkshireman, felt himself almost bewildered by the easy insolence...
9. CHAPTER VII.Amongst these passengers there was a certain broad-shouldered and rather bull-necked individual, who attracted considerable attention during the journey, and was an object of so...
10. CHAPTER VIII.Mr. James Conyers found the long summer's days hang rather heavily upon his hands at Mellish Park, in the society of the rheumatic ex-trainer, the stable-boys, and Steeve Hargra...
3. CHAPTER I.He despised and hated himself for the absurd concession. In what a pitiful farce had the tragedy ended! A visitor in the house of his rival. A calm spectator of Aurora's every-d...
4. CHAPTER II.Mr. John Mellish reserved to himself one room upon the ground-floor of his house: a cheerful, airy apartment, with French windows opening upon the lawn; windows that were shelte...
12. CHAPTER X.John went straight to his own apartment to look for his wife; but he found the guns put back in their usual places, and the room empty. Aurora's maid, a smartly dressed girl, ca...
2. CHAPTER I. "LOVE TOOK UP THE GLASS OF TIME, AND TURNEDIT IN HIS GLOWING HANDS" II. MR. PASTERN'S LETTER III. MR. JAMES CONYERS IV. THE TRAINER'S MESSENGER V. OUT IN THE RAIN VI. MONEY MATTERS VII. CAPTAIN PRODDER VIII. "HE ONLY SAI...
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