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12	A NEW LIVERY	Scarcely had the ladies gone to the drawing room, when Florimel's maid, who knew Malcolm, came in quest of him. Lady Lossie desired to see him. "What is the meaning of this, MacPhail?" she said, when he entered the room where she sat alone. "I did not send for you. Indeed, I thought you had been dismissed with the re...	{ "id": "7174" }
13	TWO CONVERSATIONS	The next day Wallis came to see Malcolm and take him to the tailor's. They talked about the guests of the previous evening. "There's a great change on Lord Meikleham," said Malcolm. "There is that," said Wallis. "I consider him much improved. But you see he's succeeded; he's the earl now, and Lord Liftore--and a me...	{ "id": "7174" }
14	FLORIMEL	That night Florimel had her thoughts as well as Malcolm. Already life was not what it had been to her, and the feeling of a difference is often what sets one a-thinking first. While her father lived, and the sureness of his love overarched her consciousness with a heaven of safety, the physical harmony of her nature ha...	{ "id": "7174" }
15	PORTLOSSIE	Mr Crathie, seeing nothing more of Malcolm, believed himself at last well rid of him; but it was days before his wrath ceased to flame, and then it went on smouldering. Nothing occurred to take him to the Seaton, and no business brought any of the fisher people to his office during that time. Hence he heard nothing of ...	{ "id": "7174" }
16	ST JAMES THE APOSTLE	When Malcolm left his sister, he had a dim sense of having lapsed into Scotch, and set about buttressing and strengthening his determination to get rid of all unconscious and unintended use of the northern dialect, not only that, in his attendance upon Florimel, he might be neither offensive nor ridiculous, but that, w...	{ "id": "7174" }
17	A DIFFERENCE	Notwithstanding his keenness of judgment and sobriety in action, Malcolm had yet a certain love for effect, a delight, that is, in the show of concentrated results, which, as I believe I have elsewhere remarked, belongs especially to the Celtic nature, and is one form in which the poetic element vaguely embodies itself...	{ "id": "7174" }
18	LORD LIFTORE	The chief cause of Malcolm's anxiety had been, and perhaps still was, Lord Liftore. In his ignorance of Mr Lenorme there might lie equal cause with him, but he knew such evil of the other that his whole nature revolted against the thought of his marrying his sister. At Lossie he had made himself agreeable to her, and n...	{ "id": "7174" }
19	KELPIE IN LONDON	Before noon Lord Liftore came round to the mews: his riding horses were there. Malcolm was not at the moment in the stable. "What animal is that?" he asked of his own groom, catching sight of Kelpie in her loose box. "One just come up from Scotland for Lady Lossie, my lord," answered the man. "She looks a clipper...	{ "id": "7174" }
20	BLUE PETER	By the time he had put up Kelpie, Malcolm found that his only chance of seeing Blue Peter before he left London, lay in going direct to the wharf. On his road he reflected on what had just passed, and was not altogether pleased with himself. He had nearly lost his temper with Liftore; and if he should act in any way un...	{ "id": "7174" }
21	MR GRAHAM	When Malcolm at length reached his lodging, he found there a letter from Miss Horn, containing the much desired information as to where the schoolmaster was to be found in the London wilderness. It was now getting rather late, and the dusk of a spring night had begun to gather; but little more than the breadth of the R...	{ "id": "7174" }
22	RICHMOND PARK	The next day at noon, mounted on Kelpie, Malcolm was in attendance upon his mistress, who was eager after a gallop in Richmond Park. Lord Liftore, who had intended to accompany her, had not made his appearance yet, but Florimel did not seem the less desirous of setting out at the time she had appointed Malcolm. The fac...	{ "id": "7174" }
23	PAINTER AND GROOM	The address upon the note Malcolm had to deliver took him to a house in Chelsea--one of a row of beautiful old houses fronting the Thames, with little gardens between them and the road. The one he sought was overgrown with creepers, most of them now covered with fresh spring buds. The afternoon had turned cloudy, and a...	{ "id": "7174" }
24	A LADY	The next morning, Malcolm took Kelpie into the park, and gave her a good breathing. He had thought to jump the rails, and let her have her head, but he found there were too many park keepers and police about: he saw he could do little for her that way. He was turning home with her again when one of her evil fits came u...	{ "id": "7174" }
25	THE PSYCHE	It was a lovely day, but Florimel would not ride: Malcolm must go at once to Mr Lenorme; she would not go out again until she could have a choice of horses to follow her. "Your Kelpie is all very well in Richmond Park, and I wish I were able to ride her myself, Malcolm, but she will never do in London." His name so...	{ "id": "7174" }
26	THE SCHOOLMASTER	Alexander Graham, the schoolmaster, was the son of a grieve, or farm overseer, in the North of Scotland. By straining every nerve, his parents had succeeded in giving him a university education, the narrowness of whose scope was possibly favourable to the development of what genius, rare and shy, might lurk among the s...	{ "id": "7174" }
27	THE PREACHER	The sermon Mr Graham heard at the chapel that Sunday morning in Kentish Town was not of an elevating, therefore not of a strengthening description. The pulpit was at that time in offer to the highest bidder--in orthodoxy, that is, combined with popular talent. The first object of the chapel's existence--I do not say in...	{ "id": "7174" }
28	THE PORTRAIT	Florimel had found her daring visit to Lenorme stranger and more fearful than she had expected: her courage was not quite so masterful as she had thought. The next day she got Mrs Barnardiston to meet her at the studio.-But she contrived to be there first by some minutes, and her friend found her seated, and the painte...	{ "id": "7174" }
29	AN EVIL OMEN	Florimel was beginning to understand that the shield of the portrait was not large enough to cover many more visits to the studio. Still she must and would venture; and should anything be said, there at least was the portrait. For some weeks it had been all but finished, was never off its easel, and always showed a tou...	{ "id": "7174" }
30	A QUARREL	When the door opened and Florimel glided in, the painter sprang to his feet to welcome her, and she flew softly, soundless as a moth, into his arms; for the study being large and full of things, she was not aware of the presence of Malcolm. From behind a picture on an easel, he saw them meet, but shrinking from being a...	{ "id": "7174" }
31	THE TWO DAIMONS	Things had taken a turn that was not to Malcolm's satisfaction, and his thoughts were as busy all the way home as Kelpie would allow. He had ardently desired that his sister should be thoroughly in love with Lenorme, for that seemed to open a clear path out of his worst difficulties; now they had quarrelled; and beside...	{ "id": "7174" }
32	A CHASTISEMENT	When she went to her room, there was Caley taking from a portmanteau the Highland dress which had occasioned so much. A note fell, and she handed it to her mistress. Florimel opened it, grew pale as she read it, and asked Caley to bring her a glass of water. No sooner had her maid left the room than she sprang to the d...	{ "id": "7174" }
33	LIES	In pain, wrath, and mortification, Liftore rode home. What would the men at his club say if they knew that he had been thrashed by a scoundrel of a groom for kissing his mistress? The fact would soon be out: he must do his best to have it taken for what it ought to be--namely, fiction. It was the harder upon him that h...	{ "id": "7174" }
34	AN OLD ENEMY	One Sunday evening--it must have been just while Malcolm and Blue Peter stood in the Strand listening to a voluntary that filled and overflowed an otherwise empty church--a short, stout, elderly woman was walking lightly along the pavement of a street of small houses, not far from a thoroughfare which, crowded like a m...	{ "id": "7174" }
35	THE EVIL GENIUS	When Malcolm first visited Mr Graham, the schoolmaster had already preached two or three times in the pulpit of Hope Chapel. His ministrations at the prayer meetings had led to this. For every night on which he was expected to speak, there were more people present than on the last; and when the deacons saw this, they a...	{ "id": "7174" }
36	CONJUNCTIONS	As the days passed on, and Florimel heard nothing of Lenorme, the uneasiness that came with the thought of him gradually diminished, and all the associations of opposite complexion returned. Untrammelled by fear, the path into a scaring future seeming to be cut off, her imagination began to work in the quarry of her la...	{ "id": "7174" }
37	AN INNOCENT PLOT	Florimel and Lady Clementina Thornicroft, the same who in the park rebuked Malcolm for his treatment of Kelpie, had met several times during the spring, and had been mutually attracted--Florimel as to a nature larger, more developed, more self supporting than her own, and Lady Clementina as to one who, it was plain, st...	{ "id": "7174" }
38	THE JOURNEY	Malcolm was overjoyed at the prospect of an escape to the country --and yet more to find that his mistress wanted to have him with her--more still to understand, that the journey was to be kept a secret. Perhaps now, far from both Caley and Liftore, he might say something to open her eyes; yet how should he avoid the a...	{ "id": "7174" }
39	DISCIPLINE	What with rats and mice, and cats and owls, and creaks and cracks, there was no quiet about the place from night to morning; and what with swallows and rooks, and cocks and kine, and horses and foals, and dogs and pigeons and peacocks, and guinea fowls and turkeys and geese, and every farm creature but pigs, which, wit...	{ "id": "7174" }
40	MOONLIGHT	And now followed a pleasant time. Wastbeach was the quietest of all quiet neighbourhoods; it was the loveliest of spring summer weather; and the variety of scenery on moor, in woodland, and on coast, within easy reach of such good horsewomen, was wonderful. The first day they rested the horses that would rest, but the ...	{ "id": "7174" }
41	THE SWIFT	Florimel succeeded so far in reassuring her friend as to the safety if not sanity of her groom, that she made no objection to yet another reading from "St Ronan's Well"--upon which occasion an incident occurred that did far more to reassure her than all the attestations of his mistress. Clementina, in consenting, had...	{ "id": "7174" }
42	ST RONAN'S WELL	The next day the reading was resumed, and for several days was regularly continued. Each day, as their interest grew, longer time was devoted to it. They were all simple enough to accept what the author gave them, nor, had a critic of the time been present to instruct them that in this last he had fallen off, would the...	{ "id": "7174" }
43	A PERPLEXITY	After Malcolm's departure, Clementina attempted to find what Florimel thought of the things her strange groom had been saying: she found only that she neither thought at all about them, nor had a single true notion concerning the matter of their conversation. Seeking to interest her in it and failing, she found however...	{ "id": "7174" }
44	THE MIND OF THE AUTHOR	The next was the last day of the reading. They must finish the tale that morning, and on the following set out to return home, travelling as they had come. Clementina had not the strength of mind to deny herself that last indulgence--a long four days' ride in the company of this strangest of attendants. After that, if ...	{ "id": "7174" }
45	THE RIDE HOME	Florimel was offended with Malcolm: he had put her confidence in him to shame, speaking of things to which he ought not once to have even alluded. But Clementina was not only older than Florimel, but in her loving endeavours for her kind, had heard many a pitiful story, and was now saddened by the tale, not shocked at ...	{ "id": "7174" }
46	PORTLAND PLACE	The latter part of the journey was not so pleasant: it rained. It was not cold, however, and the ladies did not mind it much. It accorded with Clementina's mood; and as to Florimel, but for the thought of meeting Caley, her fine spirits would have laughed the weather to scorn. Malcolm was merry. His spirits always rose...	{ "id": "7174" }
47	PORTLOSSIE AND SCAURNOSE	Meantime things were going rather badly at Portlossie and Scaurnose; and the factor was the devil of them. Those who had known him longest said he must be fey, that is doomed, so strangely altered was his behaviour. Others said he took more counsel with his bottle than had been his wont, and got no good from it. Almost...	{ "id": "7174" }
48	TORTURE	Though unable to eat any breakfast, Malcolm persuaded himself that he felt nearly as well as usual when he went to receive his mistress's orders. Florimel had had enough of horseback--for several days to come indeed--and would not ride. So he saddled Kelpie, and rode to Chelsea to look after his boat. To get rid of the...	{ "id": "7174" }
49	THE PHILTRE	Before he again came to himself, Malcolm had a dream, which, although very confused, was in parts more vivid than any he had ever had. His surroundings in it were those in which he actually lay, and he was ill, but he thought it the one illness he had before. His head ached, and he could rest in no position he tried. S...	{ "id": "7174" }
50	THE DEMONESS AT BAY	When he reached the yard of the mews, the uproar had nothing abated. But when he cried out to Kelpie, through it all came a whinny of appeal, instantly followed by a scream. When he got up to the lanterns, he found a group of wrathful men with stable forks surrounding the poor animal, from whom the blood was streaming ...	{ "id": "7174" }
51	THE PSYCHE	He rose early the next morning, and having fed and dressed Kelpie, strapped her blanket behind her saddle, and, by all the macadamized ways he could find, rode her to the wharf--near where the Thames tunnel had just been commenced. He had no great difficulty with her on the way, though it was rather nervous work at tim...	{ "id": "7174" }
52	HOPE CHAPEL	It was Sunday, during which Malcolm lay at the point of death some three stories above his sister's room. There, in the morning, while he was at the worst, she was talking with Clementina, who had called to see whether she would not go and hear the preacher of whom he had spoken with such fervour. Florimel laughed. "...	{ "id": "7174" }
53	A NEW PUPIL	The sermon Lady Clementina heard with such delight had followed one levelled at the common and right worldly idea of success harboured by each, and unquestioned by one of the chief men of the community: together they caused a strange uncertain sense of discomfort in the mind diaconal. Slow to perceive that that idea, n...	{ "id": "7174" }
54	THE FEY FACTOR	When Mr Crathie heard of the outrage the people of Scaurnose had committed upon the surveyors, he vowed be would empty every house in the place at Michaelmas. His wife warned him that such a wholesale proceeding must put him in the wrong with the country, seeing they could not all have been guilty. He replied it would ...	{ "id": "7174" }
55	THE WANDERER	It was a lovely summer evening, and the sun, going down just beyond the point of the Scaurnose, shone straight upon the Partan's door. That it was closed in such weather had a significance--general as well as individual. Doors were oftener closed in the Seaton now. The spiritual atmosphere of the place was less clear a...	{ "id": "7174" }
56	MID OCEAN	There came a breath of something in the east. It was neither wind nor warmth. It was light before it is light to the eyes of men. Slowly and slowly it grew, until, like the dawning soul in the face of one who lies in a faint, the life of light came back to the world, and at last the whole huge hollow hemisphere of rush...	{ "id": "7174" }
57	THE SHORE	It was two days after the longest day of the year, when there is no night in those regions, only a long twilight, in which many dream and do not know it. There had been a week of variable weather, with sudden changes of wind to east and north, and round again by south to west, and then there had been a calm for several...	{ "id": "7174" }
58	THE TRENCH	Malcolm had not yet, after all the health giving of the voyage, entirely recovered from the effects of the ill compounded potion. Indeed, sometimes the fear crossed his mind that never would he be the same man again, that the slow furnace of the grave alone would destroy the vile deposit left in his house of life. Henc...	{ "id": "7174" }
59	THE PEACEMAKER	The heroes of Scaurnose expected a renewal of the attack, and in greater force, the next day, and made their preparations accordingly, strengthening every weak point around the village. They were put in great heart by Malcolm's espousal of their cause, as they considered his punishment of the factor; but most of them s...	{ "id": "7174" }
60	AN OFFERING	Clementina was always ready to accord any reasonable request Florimel could make of her; but her letter lifted such a weight from her heart and life that she would now have done whatever she desired, reasonable or unreasonable, provided only it was honest. She had no difficulty in accepting Florimel's explanation that ...	{ "id": "7174" }
61	THOUGHTS	When Malcolm took Kelpie to her stall the night of the arrival of Lady Bellair and her nephew, he was rushed upon by Demon, and nearly prostrated between his immoderate welcome and the startled rearing of the mare. The hound had arrived a couple of hours before, while Malcolm was out. He wondered he had not seen him wi...	{ "id": "7174" }
62	THE DUNE	Having put Kelpie up, and fed and bedded her, Malcolm took his way to the Seaton, full of busily anxious thought. Things had taken a bad turn, and he was worse off for counsel than before. The enemy was in the house with his sister, and he had no longer any chance of judging how matters were going, as now he never rode...	{ "id": "7174" }
63	CONFESSION OF SIN	Mr Crathie was slowly recovering, but still very weak. He did not, after having turned the corner, get well so fast as his medical minister judged he ought, and the reason was plain to Lizzy, dimly perceptible to his wife: he was ill at ease. A man may have more mind and more conscience, and more discomfort in both or ...	{ "id": "7174" }
64	A VISITATION	Malcolm's custom was, first, immediately after breakfast, to give Kelpie her airing--and a tremendous amount of air she wanted for the huge animal furnace of her frame, and the fiery spirit that kept it alight; then, returning to the Seaton, to change the dress of the groom, in which he always appeared about the house,...	{ "id": "7174" }
65	THE EVE OF THE CRISIS	It was late in the sweetest of summer mornings when the Partan's boat slipped slowly back with a light wind to the harbour of Portlossie. Malcolm did not wait to land the fish, but having changed his clothes and taken breakfast with Duncan, who was always up early, went to look after Kelpie. When he had done with her, ...	{ "id": "7174" }
66	SEA	The evening came; and the company at Lossie House was still seated at table, Clementina heartily weary of the vapid talk that had been going on all through the dinner, when she was informed that a fisherman of the name of Mair was at the door, accompanied by his wife, saying they had an appointment with her. She had al...	{ "id": "7174" }
67	SHORE	At last they glided once more through the stony jaws of the harbour, as if returning again to the earth from a sojourn in the land of the disembodied. When Clementina's foot touched the shore she felt like one waked out of a dream, from whom yet the dream has not departed--but keeps floating about him, waved in thinner...	{ "id": "7174" }
68	THE CREW OF THE BONNIE ANNIE	Having caught as many fish as he wanted, Malcolm rowed to the other side of the Scaurnose. There he landed and left the dinghy in the shelter of the rocks, the fish covered with long broad leaved tangles, climbed the steep cliff, and sought Blue Peter. The brown village was quiet as a churchyard, although the sun was n...	{ "id": "7174" }
69	LIZZY'S BABY	While they were out in the fishing boat together, Clementina had, with less difficulty than she had anticipated, persuaded Lizzy to tell Lady Lossie her secret. It was in the hope of an interview with her false lover that the poor girl had consented so easily. A great longing had risen within her to have the father o...	{ "id": "7174" }
70	THE DISCLOSURE	When the earl saw Malcolm coming, although he was no coward, and had reason to trust his skill, yet knowing himself both in the wrong and vastly inferior in strength to his enemy, it may be pardoned him that for the next few seconds his heart doubled its beats. But of all things he must not show fear before Florimel! ...	{ "id": "7174" }
71	THE ASSEMBLY	That same evening, Duncan, in full dress, claymore and dirk at his sides, and carrying the great Lossie pipes, marched first through the streets of the upper, then through the closes of the lower town, followed by the bellman who had been appointed crier upon his disappearance. At the proper stations, Duncan blew a rou...	{ "id": "7174" }
72	KNOTTED STRANDS	Lady Clementina had to return to England to see her lawyers, and arrange her affairs. Before she went, she would gladly have gone with Malcolm over every spot where had passed any portion of his history, and at each heard its own chapter or paragraph; but Malcolm obstinately refused to begin such a narration before Cle...	{ "id": "7174" }
1	A PRETTY WOMAN LAYS A PLOT, AND HIRES A GARDENER.	"By Jove! I have missed her; you are a very Circe, Mrs. Tompkins." The speaker, one of the handsomest men I have ever seen, started to his feet as a beautiful Italian mantel clock rang in silver chimes the hour of midnight. "Sit down again my dear Captain, I have not told you all, and am a wilful woman and must hav...	{ "id": "7184" }
2	A RARE SOCIETY BOUQUET.	Come now and unroll with me one corner of the still, the silent past, and I shall read you a few pictures in the old time life at Haughton Hall, County Surrey, England. This one, a twelvth night scene of 1854, will interest us: Scene is one of the drawing-rooms at the fine old stately mansion of grey stone, Elizabeth...	{ "id": "7184" }
3	THE FATES SPIN WITH THREADS OF BLACK.	We now return to Captain Trevalyon, as he leaves the residence of Mrs. Tompkins, No. ---- Eaton Square. He quickly seats himself in his dogcart, still standing at the door. When grasping the reins from his servant drives rapidly to Park Lane and the town house of his friend, the Lady Esmondet, who loves him well, as al...	{ "id": "7184" }
4	OF MADAME.	At eleven o'clock the following day Mrs. Tompkins leisurely sips her cocoa as she breaks her fast in the pretty morning room at No. ---- Eaton Square, her step-daughter, an American born and bred, is her companion, a tiny young woman all pale tints, colourless face, sharp features, sharp little eyes always watery, alwa...	{ "id": "7184" }
5	MADAME SHUFFLES THE CARDS.	The following morning the weather perfect, with not a cloud in the sky, the party, after her own heart and all accepting, while dining at Eaton square, the previous night, in a robe _a la derniere mode_, Mrs. Tompkins is content and in her gayest spirits; two large hampers containing choice wines and dishes to tempt th...	{ "id": "7184" }
6	LOVE AND LOVE-MAKING.	"This just too lovely; you are not going to weep over the exit of the Colonel?" said Mrs. Tompkins rapturously. And the sleeve of her jersey brushed Trevalyon's arm as she whispered above, glancing sideways. "Enforced exit, you mean; with so seductive a neighbour one cannot but pity the absent." But Mrs. Marchmon...	{ "id": "7184" }
7	ORESTES AND PYLADES.	"And how glad I am you did, dear old friend," said Trevalyon warmly, as they took the dog-cart for home, talking by the way long and earnestly as they drove slowly and absently. After dinner they stretched their limbs on rugs on the lawn under the peaceful June sky; they had not been here many minutes when their mutual...	{ "id": "7184" }
8	MADAME AND HER GARDENER.	One word of Mrs. Tompkins, on the up trip to the city, a few hours previous, as she cares for her little plot digging with smiles as sunbeams; frowns as showers. On the guard locking the door, she was astonished to find, besides the strawberries and Sir Peter, her head gardener, who smiled as he stroked his beard in sa...	{ "id": "7184" }
9	VAURA IN A MEDLEY.	The mighty god, Society, having descended from his London throne, and with a despotic wave of the hand bid his slaves forth to some resort where fashion reigned; as a matter of course, you and I, _mon ami_, must go with the stream if we would not be ostracised altogether; we should dearly love to take a lazy summer jau...	{ "id": "7184" }
10	VELVET PAWS CONCEAL CLAWS.	"Eric, I have a favour to ask of you," said his friend; "I am going to Rome for a few weeks, and want Vaura with me." "I had rather you had made any other request of me, Alice; when, and why do you go?" "On to-morrow, after I have had an interview with Huntingdon, my lawyer (you will know him), who comes from Londo...	{ "id": "7184" }
11	ON THE WING.	The god of slumber did not long hold sway over the senses of our friends, but even so, time, the relentless, striding ever along, did not leave them any spare minutes. Breakfasting at nine, with the exception of Lady Esmondet, and Mrs. Haughton, who partook of their first meal in their own apartments, the one being rat...	{ "id": "7184" }
12	SOARING!--THENCE TO THINGS OF EARTH.	"By the way, Roland, _cher garcon_ have your people yet returned to Surrey?" enquired Vaura. "The first detachment, consisting of the governor, with mother, now delight the flock with their presence; and the paters, pipe, flock and sermons again occupy his attention. The damsel Isabel is still at Paris, whither yours...	{ "id": "7184" }
13	ADAM.	Our friends being safely in the rail coach _en route_ for the city of cities, a word of Roland Douglas; he is eldest son of the Rector of Haughton (whose acquaintance we made in earlier days on the lawn at Haughton, in chat with Col. Haughton and Trevalyon); his father is a Scotchman, who had accepted an English living...	{ "id": "7184" }
14	OF LIONEL TREVALYON.	Meanwhile our friends are rapidly nearing Paris, and, even as we speak, their train is at the depot. "Ah, here we are, and our pleasant journeying _pour le present_ a thing of the past," said Lady Esmondet. "How long a stay do you make here?" asked Bertram, giving her his arm to a _carrosse_. "The Fates only know...	{ "id": "7184" }
15	HEART-STIRS.	As our friends followed the servant, a child's cry proceeded from one of the salons as they passed; the page had a comedy face, and Vaura thinking his reply might amuse, asked: "Do the babies take care of each other?" With a farcical expression, the man answered unlocking the doors: "_Oui_, Mademoiselle." "Women ...	{ "id": "7184" }
16	LIFTING THE VAIL.	The following morn the sun arose and smiled his greeting on gay Paris--methinks Old Sol weeps, when clouds come between his beams and the gayest of cities. Lady Esmondet and Vaura enjoyed their drive through the beautiful boulevards out into the suburbs, and to one of the largest public conservatories; the gardens were...	{ "id": "7184" }
17	CHIC AUJOURD'HUI.	Captain Trevalyon assisted his friends to alight in front of a handsome house in a fashionable avenue. "Can this be the right address," said Lady Esmondet. "It is a private residence _et regardez_, by the gas-light in the entrance one can see the arms of a noble house cut in the stone." "Yes," answered Trevalyon, "...	{ "id": "7184" }
18	THEATRE FRANCAIS.	They found the theatre crowded from pit to dome. And the advent of our little party, as they took possession of their box, caused no little sensation even in that galaxy of beauty and fashion. "By the lilies of France," said a Parisian, putting up his glass; "though not the three graces, one of them is there." "Yes...	{ "id": "7184" }
19	FOR A FAIR WOMAN FACE.	"What an irrepressible fellow Everly is," thought Trevalyon, as he sauntered along the avenue towards his hotel; having heard his question to Vaura (as to the ball), "he manages to get a card for everything. I should not regret his departure for anywhere; our little _coterie_ was perfect without him. Vaura is extremely...	{ "id": "7184" }
20	QUICKENED HEART-BEATS.	On the morning of the de Hauteville ball, Trevalyon broke his fast somewhat earlier than usual, purposing to indulge in a long ride. In passing the salon of Lady Esmondet and Vaura, the door of which had been pushed open by his dog Mars half an hour previously. Trevalyon made a momentary pause, he could not see Lady Es...	{ "id": "7184" }
21	LA BELLE VERNON.	The suite of apartments at the de Hauteville mansion in which the family received, were a scene of almost unrivalled splendour. The host, Monsieur Henri Eau Clair de Hauteville, as he stood beside Madame, receiving and welcoming their guests, being a very small and very pale, quiet-mannered man, was almost lost beside ...	{ "id": "7184" }
22	THE BLIND GOD TAKES SURE AIM.	After leaving Trevalyon, Vaura, with her attendant cavaliers, bent their steps in the direction of the ball-room, the sweet sounds of distant music sounding louder and yet louder as they moved. "Woe be to that incarnation of selfishness in yonder boudoir," exclaimed Everly; "if he be the means of my losing this dance...	{ "id": "7184" }
23	THE WEB OF DIFFICULTY.	The morning after the de Hauteville ball Lady Esmondet and Vaura met at the breakfast-table, at noon, Lady Esmondet not looking paler than usual. Vaura was pale for she had slept none, her eyes looking larger and her dainty and flexible lips a deep red. She was quite like her own sweet self though, in spite of fatigue,...	{ "id": "7184" }
24	SLAIN BY A WOMAN.	Our travellers having a carriage to themselves made each other as comfortable as it is possible for human nature of to-day to be, accustomed to the cushion, footstool, and lounge of life. "Farewell, once more, charming Paris," said Lady Esmondet, "was there no England with its loved associations and many friends, the...	{ "id": "7184" }
25	IN THE SUNBEAMS.	Our friends having reached Lyons, where they had business, and would rest for the night, we shall leave them and meet them again on the mountains. Suffice it to say they enjoyed the varied grandeur, beauty and magnificence of the scenes through which they passed, as natures alive to the beauties of natural scenery alon...	{ "id": "7184" }
26	A MOUNTAIN IDYL, OR AN ALPINE ROMANCE.	"About eight months ago at last Easter-tide, and while the ladies of Sainte Marie were attending mass in their little chapel, situated about a quarter of a mile east from the road by which you descend to Italia, a traveller was carried into their midst more dead than alive, in a faint, having been struck down by the fe...	{ "id": "7184" }
27	GRUNDY'S LASH CAUSES HEART-ACHE.	On the evening of the sixth day, our friends leisurely arrived in the city of the Caesars; on coming in at the depot, Trevalyon, hiring a landau, they, with Sims and the maids following, proceeded to the villa Iberia. They learned that the noble owner had been there three days previously, and had then given his own ser...	{ "id": "7184" }
28	HEART-STIRS TO DIVINE MUSIC.	At break of day, springing from bed, and after a cold plunge bath, feeling more like himself, he went out into the half slumbering city; but the sunbeams give their roseate kiss and mists roll up the great mountain slopes, and the lazy Italian rubs his black eyes not seeing the beauties in nature that surround him--the...	{ "id": "7184" }
29	THE UNRULY MEMBER IS HEARD.	The following morn is bright and glorious, the mountains, ah! the grandeur of them, their peaks in changing hues as the sun's breath grows warmer, cut the azure of the heavens, and rest there; one involuntarily feels on a morning like this one cannot love nature intensely enough; and now, Old Sol, giving his brightest ...	{ "id": "7184" }
30	WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN.	They had been luxuriating for about four weeks in the art treasures collected in the Eternal City. Their eyes feasted on so much of loveliness in gazing upon living marbles and speaking forms on canvas that Vaura was often moved to a feeling akin to pain as she thought: "Oh, the pity of it; the pity of it, that the go...	{ "id": "7184" }
31	SOCIETY'S VOTARIES SMILE THOUGH THEY DIE.	"Here are some roses, Mademoiselle; the Captain cut them before he went out and bid me keep them fresh for you." "Very well, Saunders, I shall wear them this evening; that is, the yellow ones; put the others in a vase, or give them to me, I shall, while you get out my ruby velvet; I am pale; it is high waist and no s...	{ "id": "7184" }
32	TREVALYON GONE, VAURA KILLS TIME.	Christmas Day, the birth-day of Christ, dawned fair, beautiful, and bright, and was ushered in by many a peal of sweet sounding bells. The heavenly east was so gloriously bright as old Sol mounted upwards, as to cause many a devout Roman (as he wended his steps to worship the Creator, at the altar, in one or other te...	{ "id": "7184" }
33	WARM WORDS BRIDGE CRUEL DISTANCE.	Lady Esmondet, Vaura, and Robert Douglas ate their Christmas dinner quietly together. "I shall feel lonely when you leave Rome," said the priest, as he bade them a warm goodnight. "Naturally, you will miss us; we are almost a part of your old home," said Lady Esmondet. "I have no doubt, Roberto, that the Marchmonts...	{ "id": "7184" }
34	BRIC-A-BRAC.	The morrow dawned, fair and bright, and Vaura looked as bright and fresh as a goddess of day, as she stepped, from the door of the villa, robed in a gown of blue velvet, tight jacket of same, and a small bonnet of a lighter shade, with long tan kid gloves; her cheek was warm with the colour her quickened heart-beats ga...	{ "id": "7184" }
35	HEART TO HEART.	We shall not accompany our friends on their home-bound journey. Time will fly with greater speed if we relate not the talks and incidents by the way, but simply meet them at London, whither Lady Esmondet had telegraphed Trevalyon of their arrival. Accordingly, on their coming in at the station at 9 p.m., on the evening...	{ "id": "7184" }
36	KNAVES ARE TRUMPS.	Vaura spent the night of the fifth in dreamy wakefulness; Lionel's looks, caresses, and loving words seeming hers still; and to-morrow eve; the glad joy of his presence would be again felt; and her sympathy and love for him were so tender and heartfelt, that she lost herself in an intoxicating sense of languor, sweet b...	{ "id": "7184" }
37	WEE WHITE MOUSE WINS A POINT.	But the reverie and wagging of tongue is over and ceases, to give place to society's mask, for the picturesque lodge with its gabled roof and climbing vines is in sight, and in the twinkling of an eye the great gates are reached, which are wide open, for 'tis the entrance to Liberty Hall under the present _regime_. Lea...	{ "id": "7184" }
38	MADAME IN A FELINE MOOD.	A window in the library looked out upon the avenue, and a carriage approaching could be distinctly seen. Vaura, in the long ago, had frequently sat in this window, to watch the return of her uncle; aye, and of the man whom she now loved better than life itself. She was sure she could distinguish a conveyance from the v...	{ "id": "7184" }
39	TREVALYON THROWS DOWN THE GLOVE.	The dinner on this Twelfth-night, fraught as it was with so much of the effervescence of the champagne of life to so many, was a dinner fit for an emperor. The gold plate, the glassware, each piece a gem. Sweet flowers looked up from their delicate design in moss beside each person, or from elegant vases. The hostess w...	{ "id": "7184" }

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