# Watch and ward

Author: James, Henry, 1843-1916

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72355

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Watch+and+ward+James&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Roger Lawrence had come to town for the express purpose of doing a certain act, but as the hour for action approached he felt his ardor rapidly ebbing. Of the ardor that comes from hope, indeed, he had felt little from the first; so little that as he whirled along in the train he wondered to find himself engaged in this fool’s errand. But in default of hope he was sustained, I may almost say, by despair. He should fail, he was sure, but he must fail again before he could rest. Meanwhile he was restless enough. In the evening, at his hotel, having roamed aimlessly about the streets for a couple of hours in the dark December cold, he went up to his room and dressed, with a painful sense of...

## Chapters

- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watch-and-ward-72355/chapters/12/index.md)