Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
Dull as the life of the little château on the lake necessarily was, yet Georgie Haggard did not suffer from _ennui_. She seemed in fact to rather revel in the quietude, and to luxuriate in the seclusion of the Swiss villa, after the fatigues and excitements of a busy London se...
The young mother was sitting in an American rocking-chair, her baby in her lap. The little creature stared at her in that peculiar way which infants do when they are being "amus...
13. CHAPTER XII.Lord Hetton was certainly a long-suffering man. It has been stated that the temper of the mistress of Azalea Lodge was almost diabolical; there was nothing the pair didn't quarr...
8. CHAPTER VII.Old Justice Haggard had died rather suddenly. He had been ailing for several weeks; as his son had remarked, his handwriting had been the first symptom of the breakdown. His art...
2. CHAPTER I.Dull as the life of the little château on the lake necessarily was, yet Georgie Haggard did not suffer from _ennui_. She seemed in fact to rather revel in the quietude, and to l...
11. CHAPTER X.The lower middle classes are a never-failing stalking-horse; we can all afford to laugh at them as ridiculous, vulgar, improvident and wicked. Even the mock hero, the good young...
6. CHAPTER V.It was certainly a great deal to Haggard's credit that he remained tranquilly at The Warren for the space of three whole weeks. It was the London season--just that time of year...
10. CHAPTER IX.The Reverend John Dodd had been more than satisfied with his new curate. At first the long cassock, the flowing robes, and the rather eccentric "make up" of the man had been a d...
3. CHAPTER II.In King's Warren Parsonage the vicar's wife was seated at her little table. Before her was a handsome service of _real_ Queen Anne plate; the square-looking teapot with its soli...
9. CHAPTER VIII.It must not be supposed that all the religious activity in King's Warren was confined to the Dissenters. The Reverend John Dodd was a fine old-crusted Tory; the world had gone v...
4. CHAPTER III."Lucy's letter announcing the happy event took me so much by surprise that I could do little more than formally congratulate you. As you say, I gave you no news whatever; to tel...
5. CHAPTER IV."It's no use, my dear; the wheels of time never go backwards. You will never be Georgie Warrender again, for she has developed into a personage--Mrs. Haggard is a personage of c...
7. CHAPTER VI.There had been a succession of battles royal between the Misses Sleek and their papa over the haymaking party. Mr. Sleek had drawn up a long list of guests, among whom prominent...
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