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The Prologue 9

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obleman, who was called the Earl, and the youngest of his

ultimately discovered, he had gained money by his unworthy appeal to the meanly prosaic superstition of modern times. A long interval had then elapsed, and nothing had been heard of him, when a starving man was discovered by a traveller, lost on a Western prairie. The ill-fated Irish lord had associated himself with an Indian tribe - had committed some offence against their laws - and had been deliberately deserted and left to die. On his recovery, he wrote to his elder brother (who had inherited the title and estates on the death of the old Earl) to say that he was ashamed of the life that he had led, and eager to make amendment by accepting any honest employment that could be offered to him. The traveller who had saved his life, and whose opinion was to be trusted, declared that the letter represented a sincerely penitent state of mind. There were good qualities in the vagabond, which only wanted a little merciful encouragement to assert themselves. The reply that he received from England came from the lawyers employed by the new Earl. They had arranged with their agents in New York to pay to the younger brother a legacy of a thousand pounds, which represented all that had been left to him by his father's will. If he wrote again his letters would not be answered; his brother had done with him. Treated in thi

newspaper story. Of Miss Henley's customary good spirits not a trace remained. "Few people, Rhoda

a reason

nworthy of her. So far, but no farther, her conscience yielded to its own conviction of what was just. But the one unassailable vital force in this world is the force of love. It may submit to the hard necessities of life; it may acknowledge the imperative claims of duty; it may be silent under reproach, and submissive to privation - but, suffer what it may, it is the master-passion still; subject to no artificial influences, owning

the evening p

during his last visit to London, said she wished to-morrow had come and gone. His sweet temper, his handsome face, his lively talk had made Arthur a favourite everywhere. Mrs. Lewson had left her comfo

of retiring at an e

ing; the whistling passage of bullets through the air; the piercing cry of a man mortally wounded, and that man, perhaps --? Iris shrank from her own horrid thought. A momentary faintness overcame her;

ck at the door, a tall man walk

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Contents

Preface The Prologue 1 The Prologue 2 The Prologue 3 The Prologue 4 The Prologue 5 The Prologue 6 The Prologue 7 The Prologue 8 The Prologue 9 The Prologue 10
The Prologue 11
Chapter 1 The Sour French Wine
Chapter 2 The Man she Refused
Chapter 3 The Registered Packet
Chapter 4 The Game Mountjoy Loses
Chapter 5 The Game Mountjoy Plays a New Card
Chapter 6 The Game Mountjoy Wins
Chapter 7 Doctoring the Doctor
Chapter 8 Her Father's Message
Chapter 9 Mr. Vimpany on Intoxication
Chapter 10 The Mockery of Deceit
Chapter 11 Mrs. Vimpany's Farewell
Chapter 12 Lord Harry's Defence
Chapter 13 Iris at Home
Chapter 14 The Lady's Maid
Chapter 15 Mr. Henley's Temper
Chapter 16 The Doctor in Full Dress
Chapter 17 On Hampstead Heath
Chapter 18 Professional Assistance
Chapter 19 Mr. Henley at Home
Chapter 20 First Suspicions of Iris
Chapter 21 The Parting Scene
Chapter 22 The Fatal Words
Chapter 23 News of Iris
Chapter 24 Lord Harry's Honeymoon
Chapter 25 The Doctor in Difficulties
Chapter 26 London and Paris
Chapter 27 The Bride at Home
Chapter 28 The Maid and the Keyhole
Chapter 29 The Conquest of Mr. Vimpany
Chapter 30 Saxon and Celt
Chapter 31 The School for Husbands
Chapter 32 Good-Bye to Iris
Chapter 33 The Decree of Fate
Chapter 34 My Lord's Mind
Chapter 35 My Lady's Mind
Chapter 36 The Doctor Means Mischief
Chapter 37 The First Quarrel
Chapter 38 Ici on Parle Francais
Chapter 39 The Mystery of the Hospital
Chapter 40 Dire Necessity
Chapter 41 The Man is Found
Chapter 42 The Mettlesome Maid
Chapter 43 Fiction Attempted by My Lord
Chapter 44 Fiction Improved by the Doctor
Chapter 45 Fact Related by Fanny
Chapter 46 Man and Wife
Chapter 47 The Patient and My Lord
Chapter 48 "The Mistress and the Maid"
Chapter 49 The Nurse is Sent Away
Chapter 50 In the Alcove
Chapter 51 What Next
Chapter 52 The Dead Man's Photograph
Chapter 53 The Wife's Return
Chapter 54 Another Step
Chapter 55 The Adventures of a Faithful Maid
Chapter 56 Fanny's Narrative
Chapter 57 At Louvain
Chapter 58 Of Course They Will Pay
Chapter 59 The Consequences of an Advertisement
Chapter 60 On the Eve of a Change
Chapter 61 The Last Discovery
Chapter 62 The Board of Directors
Chapter 63 A Refuge
Chapter 64 The Invincibles
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