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Chapter 10 HARD WORDS.

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ey themselves have been the cause. The author is not speaking now of actual love-makings, of intrigues and devilish villany, either perpetrated or imagined; but

self probably, unconsciously indeed, and with no formed words, that the husband is an ass, an ass if he be in a twitter either for that which he has kept or for that which he has been unable to keep, that the lady has shewn a good deal of appreciation, and that he himself is-is-is-quite a Captain bold of Halifax. All the while he will not have the slightest intention of wronging the husband's honour, and will have received no greater favour from the intimacy accorded to him than the privilege of running on one day to Marshall and Snellgrove's, the haberdashers, and on another to Handcocks', the jewelle

has to give, could hardly have wished to run away with his neighbour's wife, or to have destroyed the happiness of his old friend's daughter. Such wickedness had never come into his head; but he had a certain pleasure in being the confidential friend of a very pretty woman; and when he heard that that pretty woman's husband was jealous, the pleasure was enhanced rather than otherwise. On that Sunday, as he had left the house in Curzon

in hand whose time was of the slightest value to himself or any one else. But now that mission assumed an importance in his eyes, and seemed to require either a special observance or a special excuse. There was no real reason why he should not have stay

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wicked, do tell me whether I am to consider myself as a banished man. I thought that our little meetings were so innocent,-and so pleasant

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ad been very doubtful. In regard to the number of words, Mrs. Trevelyan certainly had had the best of it. As far as any understanding, one of another, was concerned, the conversation had been useless. She believed herself to be injured and aggrieved, and would continue so to assert, let him implore her to listen to him as loudly as he might. "Yes;-I will listen, and

to her as often as he might with his wise words. Wise words! What was the use of wise words when a man was such a fool in nature? And as for Colonel Osborne,-she would see him if he came to her three times a day, unless her husband gave some clearly intelligible order to the contrary. She was fortifying her min

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nk of it. As far as I am concerned, I wish for no change;-except that people should be more reasonable

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the letter should be posted. But she destroyed that which she had received from Colonel Osborne. In all things she would act as she would h

y for him to read. But he was quite unable to fix his mind upon the words before him. He had spoken to his wife on that morning in the strongest language he could use as to the unseemliness of her intimacy with Colonel Osborne; and then, the first thing she had done when his back was turned was to write to this very Colonel Osborne, and tell him, no doubt, what had occurred between her and her husband. He sat thinki

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Contents

Chapter 1 SHEWING HOW WRATH BEGAN. Chapter 2 COLONEL OSBORNE. Chapter 3 LADY MILBOROUGH'S DINNER PARTY. Chapter 4 HUGH STANBURY. Chapter 5 SHEWING HOW THE QUARREL PROGRESSED. Chapter 6 SHEWING HOW RECONCILIATION WAS MADE. Chapter 7 MISS JEMIMA STANBURY, OF EXETER. Chapter 8 I KNOW IT WILL DO. Chapter 9 SHEWING HOW THE QUARREL PROGRESSED AGAIN. Chapter 10 HARD WORDS. Chapter 11 LADY MILBOROUGH AS AMBASSADOR.
Chapter 12 MISS STANBURY'S GENEROSITY.
Chapter 13 THE HONOURABLE MR. GLASCOCK.
Chapter 14 THE CLOCK HOUSE AT NUNCOMBE PUTNEY.
Chapter 15 WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT IT IN THE CLOSE.
Chapter 16 DARTMOOR.
Chapter 17 A GENTLEMAN COMES TO NUNCOMBE PUTNEY.
Chapter 18 THE STANBURY CORRESPONDENCE.
Chapter 19 BOZZLE, THE EX-POLICEMAN.
Chapter 20 SHEWING HOW COLONEL OSBORNE
Chapter 21 SHEWING HOW COLONEL OSBORNE No.21
Chapter 22 SHEWING HOW MISS STANBURY BEHAVED
Chapter 23 COLONEL OSBORNE AND MR. BOZZLE
Chapter 24 NIDDON PARK.
Chapter 25 HUGH STANBURY SMOKES HIS PIPE.
Chapter 26 A THIRD PARTY IS SO OBJECTIONABLE.
Chapter 27 MR. TREVELYAN'S LETTER TO HIS WIFE.
Chapter 28 GREAT TRIBULATION.
Chapter 29 MR. AND MRS. OUTHOUSE.
Chapter 30 DOROTHY MAKES UP HER MIND.
Chapter 31 MR. BROOKE BURGESS.
Chapter 32 THE FULL MOON AT ST. DIDDULPH'S.
Chapter 33 HUGH STANBURY SMOKES ANOTHER PIPE.
Chapter 34 PRISCILLA'S WISDOM.
Chapter 35 MR. GIBSON'S GOOD FORTUNE.
Chapter 36 MISS STANBURY'S WRATH.
Chapter 37 MONT CENIS.
Chapter 38 VERDICT OF THE JURY- MAD, MY LORD.
Chapter 39 MISS NORA ROWLEY IS MALTREATED.
Chapter 40 C. G.
Chapter 41 SHEWING WHAT TOOK PLACE AT ST. DIDDULPH'S.
Chapter 42 MISS STANBURY AND MR. GIBSON BECOME TWO.
Chapter 43 LABURNUM COTTAGE.
Chapter 44 BROOKE BURGESS TAKES LEAVE OF EXETER.
Chapter 45 TREVELYAN AT VENICE.
Chapter 46 THE AMERICAN MINISTER.
Chapter 47 ABOUT FISHING, AND NAVIGATION, AND HEAD-DRESSES.
Chapter 48 MR. GIBSON IS PUNISHED.
Chapter 49 MR. BROOKE BURGESS AFTER SUPPER.
Chapter 50 CAMILLA TRIUMPHANT.
Chapter 51 SHEWING WHAT HAPPENED
Chapter 52 MR. OUTHOUSE COMPLAINS THAT IT'S HARD.
Chapter 53 HUGH STANBURY IS SHEWN TO BE NO CONJUROR.
Chapter 54 MR. GIBSON'S THREAT.
Chapter 55 THE REPUBLICAN BROWNING.
Chapter 56 WITHERED GRASS.
Chapter 57 DOROTHY'S FATE.
Chapter 58 DOROTHY AT HOME.
Chapter 59 MR. BOZZLE AT HOME.
Chapter 60 ANOTHER STRUGGLE.
Chapter 61 PARKER'S HOTEL, MOWBRAY STREET.
Chapter 62 LADY ROWLEY MAKES AN ATTEMPT.
Chapter 63 SIR MARMADUKE AT HOME.
Chapter 64 SIR MARMADUKE AT HIS CLUB.
Chapter 65 MYSTERIOUS AGENCIES.
Chapter 66 OF A QUARTER OF LAMB.
Chapter 67 RIVER'S COTTAGE.
Chapter 68 MAJOR MAGRUDER'S COMMITTEE.
Chapter 69 SIR MARMADUKE AT WILLESDEN.
Chapter 70 SHEWING WHAT NORA ROWLEY
Chapter 71 SHEWING WHAT HUGH STANBURY THOUGHT
Chapter 72 THE DELIVERY OF THE LAMB.
Chapter 73 DOROTHY RETURNS TO EXETER.
Chapter 74 THE LIONESS AROUSED.
Chapter 75 THE ROWLEYS GO OVER THE ALPS.
Chapter 76 WE SHALL BE SO POOR.
Chapter 77 THE FUTURE LADY PETERBOROUGH.
Chapter 78 CASALUNGA.
Chapter 79 I CAN SLEEP ON THE BOARDS.
Chapter 80 WILL THEY DESPISE HIM
Chapter 81 MR. GLASCOCK IS MASTER.
Chapter 82 MRS. FRENCH'S CARVING KNIFE.
Chapter 83 BELLA VICTRIX.
Chapter 84 SELF-SACRIFICE.
Chapter 85 THE BATHS OF LUCCA.
Chapter 86 MR. GLASCOCK AS NURSE.
Chapter 87 MR. GLASCOCK'S MARRIAGE COMPLETED.
Chapter 88 CROPPER AND BURGESS.
Chapter 89 I WOULDN'T DO IT, IF I WAS YOU.
Chapter 90 LADY ROWLEY CONQUERED.
Chapter 91 FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
Chapter 92 TREVELYAN DISCOURSES ON LIFE.
Chapter 93 SAY THAT YOU FORGIVE ME.
Chapter 94 A REAL CHRISTIAN.
Chapter 95 TREVELYAN BACK IN ENGLAND.
Chapter 96 MONKHAMS.
Chapter 97 MRS. BROOKE BURGESS.
Chapter 98 ACQUITTED.
Chapter 99 CONCLUSION.
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