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He paced the library for a few minutes. His emotions were terrible, but they were the strugglings of pride, vain, haughty, ambitious pride, not such as he would have been justified in possessing.
It is not easy to conceive nor to clearly explain the true motives which induced Lotte Clinton to give her assent to the unexpected proposition made to her by Nathan Gomer. In n...
7. CHAPTER VI.--MR. CHEWKLE EXECUTES HIS MISSION.Mark Wilton, during his last interviews with Lotte Clinton, and in the intervals that occurred between them, passed through a severe trial of his love. All the unfavourable poin...
17. CHAPTER XVI.--THE FLOWER OF THE FLOCK.“I was separated from my family at a very early age,” he commenced, “being taken under the roof and tender care of a sister of my mother. My father was a wild, dissipated spendt...
9. CHAPTER VIII.--THE ABDUCTION AND ITS PUNISHMENT.It is, unhappily, the nature of jealousy to magnify small things into great ones, and to build upon the flimsiest supposition a series of incidents inflaming to the brain of the...
16. CHAPTER XV.--“COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE.The deadly faintness which had overcome Old Wilton, when he fell into the arms of Harry Vivian, increased, until it deprived him of all consciousness of what was passing around...
14. CHAPTER XIII.--WHO IS HE?If Nathan Gomer had constructed a plan for the accomplishment of the matrimonial hopes of Flora and Mark Wilton, the reading a homily to Mr. Wilton, upon the cruelty of forcing...
5. CHAPTER IV.--MR. CHEWKLE’S MISSIONHis future was now in his own hands. Most men have latent energies; of these there is a class who can only have them elicited by the pressure of dire disaster; there is another...
13. CHAPTER XII.--THE DOWNFALL OF PRIDE.The night of the great and last party at Grahame’s mansion in the Regent’s Park was, in the anticipation of Mrs. Grahame, to have proved a crowning triumph of calculation. Upon...
8. CHAPTER VII.--THE ELOPEMENT--THE LONELY FLIGHT.Mr. Grahame, after the departure of Chewkle, suffered the worst tortures of a terrible suspense. He had no peace night nor day within his house, or away from it. The second flig...
6. CHAPTER V.--THE ABDUCTION.Lester Vane, while he indulged his appetite for profligate pleasures or pursued with pertinacity a revengeful purpose, never lost sight of his personal interest, especially wher...
3. CHAPTER II--SUSPICION.Many a weary hour, on the night of Helen’s departure, did Lotte sit watching by her little charge while it slumbered, plying her ever-busy needle in making its clothes, with whi...
4. CHAPTER III.--LOTTE’S FIRST LOVE.He was borne to his berth, where he was immediately attended by two or three doctors, who, in addition to the regular medical officer, happened to be on board on their way out t...
15. CHAPTER XIV--THE BEGINNING OF THE END.During this interview he learned, to his dismay, the whole of Colonel Mires’ proceedings, as Mark had that morning at his request detailed to his father all that had occurred in...
2. CHAPTER I.--HELEN GRAHAME’s DANGER.He paced the library for a few minutes. His emotions were terrible, but they were the strugglings of pride, vain, haughty, ambitious pride, not such as he would have been justif...
11. CHAPTER X.--HOW LOTTE FULFILLED HER TRUST.And now Lotte Clinton was again alone in the world---again with her face confronting her situation, prepared to sustain her cross with the meek fortitude she had always hitherto...
10. CHAPTER IX.--THE REWARD OF FAITHFULNESS AND TRUTH.Mark Wilton, with the impetuosity natural to his character, had, after his last interview with Lotte Clinton, determined, on leaving her residence, that another twenty-four hour...
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