# Half Brothers Author: Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911 Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59094 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Half+Brothers+Stretton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary It will be a terrible thing to be ill here, among strangers, to have my little child born, and no one with me, if Sidney does not come back. I have been looking for him every day for the last three weeks. Every morning I feel sure he will come, and every night I lie listening for any sound out of doors which might mean he is come. Out on the clock tower the watchmen strike the time on the bell every quarter of an hour, and I know how the night is slipping away. Sometimes I get up and look through the window at the stars sparkling brighter than they ever sparkle on frosty nights in England, and the keen, keen air makes me shiver; but I never see him in the village street, never hear him ca... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER LII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/54/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/35/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER LIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/55/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/26/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/46/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/40/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/34/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/47/index.md) - [CHAPTER LI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/53/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/37/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/33/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/32/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER LV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/57/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/39/index.md) - [CHAPTER LIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/56/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/48/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/36/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/50/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/42/index.md) - [CHAPTER XL.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/41/index.md) - [CHAPTER L.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/52/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/38/index.md) - [CHAPTER LVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/59/index.md) - [CHAPTER LVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/58/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/49/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/45/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/51/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER LVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/60/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/44/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER LIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/61/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/7/index.md) - [did. It seems like a relic of barbarism, akin to the love of savages](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER LX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/62/index.md) - [letter I enclose was written thirty years ago by Sophy to Rachel.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/43/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-brothers-59094/chapters/13/index.md)