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The Infidel: A Story of the Great RevivalThe Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival CHAPTER I. GRUB-STREET SCRIBBLERS Father and daughter worked together at the trade of letters in the days when George the Second was king and Grub Street was a reality. For them literature was indeed a trade, since...

Aurora Floyd. Volume 2Mary Elizabeth Braddon Aurora Floyd, Vol. 2 / Fifth Edition CHAPTER I. "LOVE TOOK UP THE GLASS OF TIME, AND TURNED IT IN HIS GLOWING HANDS." Talbot Bulstrode yielded at last to John's repeated invitations, and consented to pass a couple of days at Mellish Park.He despised an...

Aurora Floyd. Volume 3Mary Elizabeth Braddon Aurora Floyd, Vol. 3 / Fifth Edition CHAPTER I. AT THE GOLDEN LION Mr. William Dork, the constable, reached Doncaster at about a quarter-past one o'clock upon the morning after the murder, and drove straight to the Reindeer. That hotel had been closed ...

Aurora Floyd. Volume 1Mary Elizabeth Braddon Aurora Floyd, Vol. 1 / Fifth Edition DedicatedTOADMIRAL AND MRS. BASDEN,WITH THEAFFECTIONATE REGARDSOFTHE AUTHORCHAPTER I. HOW A RICH BANKER MARRIED AN ACTRESS Faint streaks of crimson glimmer here and there amidst the rich darkness of the Kentish wood...

John Marchmont's Legacy. Volume 3 of 3Braddon M. E. Mary Elizabeth John Marchmont's Legacy, Volume 3 (of 3) CHAPTER I CAPTAIN ARUNDEL'S REVENGE Edward Arundel went back to his lonely home with a settled purpose in his mind. He would leave Lincolnshire, – and immediately. He had no motive for rema...

The Doctor's Wife: A NovelBraddon M. E. Mary Elizabeth The Doctor's Wife: A Novel CHAPTER I. A YOUNG MAN FROM THE COUNTRY There were two surgeons in the little town of Graybridge-on-the-Wayverne, in pretty pastoral Midlandshire, – Mr. Pawlkatt, who lived in a big, new, brazen-faced house in the m...

Wyllard's WeirdWyllard's Weird A Novel WYLLARD'S WEIRD CHAPTER I. IN A CORNISH VALLEY There are some travellers who think when they cross the Tamar, over that fairy bridge of Brunel's, hung aloft between the blue of the river and the blue of the sky, that they have left England behind them on the...

Mount Royal: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3Braddon M. E. Mary Elizabeth Mount Royal: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 CHAPTER I THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE "And he was a widower," said Christabel.She was listening to an oft-told tale, kneeling in the firelight, at her aunt's knee, the ruddy glow tenderly touching he...

Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3Braddon M. E. Mary Elizabeth Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 CHAPTER I "YOU CALLED ME, AND I CAME HOME TO YOUR HEART." Another revolution of the social wheel. Summer was over, and Twickenham, Richmond, Bath, and Tunbridge Wells were deserted for the new squares and ...

Mount Royal: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3Braddon M. E. Mary Elizabeth Mount Royal: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 CHAPTER I "WITH SUCH REMORSELESS SPEED STILL COME NEW WOES." The next morning was damp, and grey, and mild, no autumn wind stirring the long sweeping branches of the cedars on the lawn, the dead le...