Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 39, Vol. I, September 27, 1884

Various· 2 chapters· 13,288 words

Madge wakened with the weary sensation of one who has passed through a long nightmare. It was some minutes before she could recall the incidents of the previous day; still longer before she could realise the unhappy meaning of the scene with Philip, and the fact that Uncle Dic...

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2. CHAPTER XLIX.—AT MIDNIGHT.

Coutts Hadleigh relished good wine; but he was cautious in his cups, as in everything else. On this evening, however, he ‘drank fair,’ as it is called, with his comrades; and th...

1. CHAPTER XLVIII.—ANXIETIES.

Madge wakened with the weary sensation of one who has passed through a long nightmare. It was some minutes before she could recall the incidents of the previous day; still longe...