# The Light That Lures

Author: Brebner, Percy James, 1864-1922

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13312

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Light+That+Lures+Brebner&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A solemn twilight, heavy and oppressive, was closing a dull, slumberous day. It was late in the year for such weather. Not a breath stirred in the trees by the roadside, not a movement in hedge or ditch; some plague might have swept across the land, leaving it stricken and desolate, even the cottages here and there showed no lights and appeared to be deserted. The road ran straight between ill-conditioned and neglected fields, and for an hour or more no traveler had passed this way, yet it was a high road, and at a few miles distance was Paris. Yonder toward the northeast lay the city, the twilight heavy over it too, but it was not silent. The throb of human passion and anger beat in it w...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lures-13312/chapters/28/index.md)