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II. Another Turn of the Screw. III. A Coup manqué. IV. Madeleine awakes. V. At our Minister's. VI. The Gulf fixed. VII. Henrietta. VIII. Mrs. Ramsay Caird at Home. IX. Inquisitorial. X. Against the Grain. XI. Iconoclastic. XII. Too Late. XIII. Quand même! XIV. Forlorn.
In this great London world of ours it is our boast that we live free and unfettered by the opinions of our neighbours; that we may be unacquainted with those persons who for a s...
4. CHAPTER III.It has been said that Mrs. M'Diarmid took an earnest motherly interest in Madeleine Kilsyth; but the bare statement is by no means sufficient to explain the real feelings entert...
7. CHAPTER VI.Fainted! a preposterous thing for a big strong man to do! Fainted, as though he had been a school-girl, or a delicate miss, or a romantic woman troubled with nerves. Mr. Walsing...
6. CHAPTER V.Meanwhile Chudleigh Wilmot, bearing the secret of his great sorrow about with him, bearing with him also the dread horror and gnawing remorse which the fear that his wife had co...
3. CHAPTER II.If the interview which had taken place between Chudleigh Wilmot and Henrietta Prendergast had had unfortunate results for the one, it had been proportionably, if not equally, un...
13. CHAPTER XII.That there can be such a thing as a broken heart; that love, misguided, misdirected, fixed upon the wrong object, and never finding "its earthly close," having to pine in secret...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay Caird lived, it is needless to say, in a fashionable quarter of the town. They could not have lived in any other. Their lot being essentially cast among fash...
14. CHAPTER XIII.In years to come it was destined to be a marvel to Wilmot how he lived through the days and the weeks of that time. If they had not been so entirely filled with supreme sufferin...
5. CHAPTER IV.It is probable that if Chudleigh Wilmot had remained in London, fulfilling his professional duties and leading his ordinary life, the declaration of love and the offer of his ha...
2. CHAPTER I.Mr. Foljambe did not easily throw off the painful impression which his interview with Chudleigh Wilmot had made upon him. The old gentleman had always found Wilmot, though not a...
15. CHAPTER XIV.Yes, she was dead; had died with a smile upon her lips; had died at peace and charity with all; had died knowing that the man whom she had looked up to and reverenced, had loved...
11. CHAPTER X.Of all those who were in the habit of seeing Madeleine under circumstances which made it possible for them to observe her closely, her brother had been the last to perceive and...
10. CHAPTER IX.Lady Muriel Kilsyth had carried her cherished plan into execution--had seen her wishes as regarded Madeleine and her kinsman Ramsay Caird fulfilled. With wonderfully little trou...
8. CHAPTER VII.Mrs. Prendergast had heard of Chudleigh Wilmot's accession to fortune before the news had reached that more than ever "rising" man. Though she was not among Mr. Foljambe's intim...
1. CHAPTER I. Nothing like Wilmot.II. Another Turn of the Screw. III. A Coup manqué. IV. Madeleine awakes. V. At our Minister's. VI. The Gulf fixed. VII. Henrietta. VIII. Mrs. Ramsay Caird at Home. IX. Inquisito...