A Vanished Hand. Sarah Doudney

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066239480

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       IN A BACK ROOM

       CHAPTER II

       WHAT WAS WRITTEN

       CHAPTER III

       TAKING COUNSEL

       CHAPTER IV

       MRS. TRYON

       CHAPTER V

       MRS. BEATON

       CHAPTER VI

       HAROLD AND META

       CHAPTER VII

       MRS. PENN

       CHAPTER VIII

       LOOKING AT PICTURES

       CHAPTER IX

       MEETINGS

       CHAPTER X

       LONELINESS

       CHAPTER XI

       MRS. VERDON

       CHAPTER XII

       HIS FIRST VISIT

       CHAPTER XIII

       IN PORTMAN SQUARE

       CHAPTER XIV

       RUSHBROOK

       "IT WAS A GOOD SPOT FOR A REVERIE."

       CHAPTER XV

       WAYNE'S COURT

       CHAPTER XVI

       GOING TO CHURCH

       CHAPTER XVII

       THE PICNIC

       CHAPTER XVIII

       THE ISLAND

       CHAPTER XIX

       CONCLUSION

CHAPTER I

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IN A BACK ROOM

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      "For one shall grasp, and one resign,

       One drink life's rue, and one its wine,

       And God shall make the balance good."

      —Whittier.

      Elsie Kilner had a battle to fight, and it must be fought after her own fashion. It was the kind of battle which is fought every day and every hour; but the battlefield is always a silent place, and there is neither broken weapon nor crimson stain to tell us where the strife has been.

      Elsie's battle was fought in a back room in All Saints' Street on an afternoon in March. It was not a gloomy room; although the window looked out upon walls and roofs and chimneys, she had a good clear view of the sky. Some pigeons occupied a little house outside one of the neighbouring windows, and there was a roof covered with red tiles on СКАЧАТЬ