Category: Novels
The Rock Ahead: A Novel. (Vol. 2)
I. Ægrotat Animo. II. Recognition. III. A Mine is laid. IV. Perplexity. V. An Explosion. VI. The last Chance. VII. Ineluctabile Fatum. VIII. A last Message. IX. Twelve Months after.
Chapters
1. CHAPTER IV. Pursuit.
I. Ægrotat Animo. II. Recognition. III. A Mine is laid. IV. Perplexity. V. An Explosion. VI. The last Chance. VII. Ineluctabile Fatum. VIII. A last Message. IX. Twelve Months af...
2. CHAPTER IV.The clearance effected under the superintendence of the Office of Works, for the amalgamation under one roof of the various Courts of Law, has carried away a large portion of Cl...
3. CHAPTER V.The cool determination of Gertrude's conduct, the resolution which did not shrink from a proceeding calculated to excite at least observation by her servants, took Gilbert Lloyd...
4. CHAPTER VI.Lord Ticehurst's attachment to the turf was by no means of a lukewarm or of a perfunctory character. He was not one of the young men of the present day, who keep a racing-stud a...
5. CHAPTER VII.Of all the places on which the autumnal moon, approaching her full like a comely matron, looks down, there are many far less picturesque and less enjoyable than that bit of Robe...
6. CHAPTER VIII.When a man of Lord Ticehurst's character and disposition makes up his mind to achieve a certain result--in the turf slang of the day, "goes in for a big thing"--he is not easily...
7. CHAPTER IX.The effect of Miles Challoner's startling communication upon Lord Sandilands was very great; but the long-cultivated habit of self-command enabled him to conceal its extent and...
8. CHAPTER I.Miss Grace Lambert had made herself so popular at Hardriggs, had so ingratiated herself with all staying in that hospitable mansion that the news, duly conveyed to the breakfast...
9. CHAPTER II.The meditations of Mrs. Bloxam as she returned to Hardriggs were not agreeable. She was exceedingly puzzled as to what her best line of action would be, in consideration of her...
10. CHAPTER III.Refused! rejected! Lord Ticehurst could scarcely believe it. "Declined the honour," she said; that was the way she put it. Declined the honour! "Whish!" went the whip over the h...
11. CHAPTER IV.Lord Sandilands was looking and feeling ill and feeble, and was mainly occupied, as he hobbled across the not-magnificently-proportioned drawing-room of that most desirable lodg...
12. CHAPTER V.When Gilbert Lloyd awoke the next morning after an excellent night's rest, his first impression was that something disagreeable had happened on the previous evening, but it was...
13. CHAPTER VI.Mr. Lloyd gone! They could scarcely believe it at Baden. Lady Carabas was in despair, and the Duchess of Winchester was vexed, for she was fond of flirtation, and she had found...
14. CHAPTER VII.It was fortunate that Mrs. Jobson was a practical woman of resources and presence of mind, for the first thing she did was to fling the contents of the water-jug over Lloyd's he...
15. CHAPTER VIII."The spot was made by Nature for herself; The travellers know it not. * * * * * * But it is beautiful, And if a man should plant his cottage near, Should sleep beneath the shelt...
16. CHAPTER IX.More than twelve months had rolled away since the man called Gilbert Lloyd had been found dead in his lodgings in Duke-street, when the medical journals improved the occasion an...