The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals. Ann S. Stephens
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Название: The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals
Автор: Ann S. Stephens
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066191207
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Ann S. Stephens
The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066191207
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. LOVE-LIGHTS IN TWO HEARTS.
CHAPTER II. CLARA APPEALS TO HER STEPMOTHER.
CHAPTER IV. THE ITALIAN TEACHER.
CHAPTER V. THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER IN OPPOSITION.
CHAPTER VI. SOME OLD ACQUAINTANCES GET INTO A CONJUGAL DIFFICULTY.
CHAPTER VII. THE OPERATIC SUPPER.
CHAPTER VIII. BEHIND THE SCENES.
CHAPTER IX. THE FIRST PERFORMANCE.
CHAPTER X. THE TWO FOSTER-CHILDREN MEET.
CHAPTER XI. LADY CLARA QUARRELS WITH HER STEPMOTHER.
CHAPTER XII. THE OLD PRISONER.
CHAPTER XIII. THE OLD COUNTESS.
CHAPTER XIV. THE OLD COUNTESS AND HER SERVANT.
CHAPTER XV. THE EARL'S RETURN.
CHAPTER XVI. THE WIFE AND THE DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER XVII. HUSBAND AND WIFE.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE STORMY NIGHT AND SUNSHINY MORNING.
CHAPTER XIX. AFTER THE FAILURE.
CHAPTER XX. LORD HILTON TAKES SUPPER WITH OLYMPIA.
CHAPTER XXI. ON THE WAY TO HOUGHTON CASTLE.
CHAPTER XXII. THE OLD COUNTESS.
CHAPTER XXIII. EXPLANATIONS AND CONCESSIONS.
CHAPTER XXIV. DOWN BY THE BROOK AMONG THE FERNS.
CHAPTER XXV. HOW LADY CLARA GOT HER OWN WAY.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE QUARREL AND THE LETTER.
CHAPTER XXVII. MAGGIE CASEY MEETS HER OLD LOVER.
CHAPTER XXVIII. JUST FIFTY POUNDS.
CHAPTER XXIX. OLYMPIA'S DEFEAT.
CHAPTER XXX. THE FAMILY MEETING AT HOUGHTON.
CHAPTER XXXI. DOWN AMONG THE FERNS AGAIN.
CHAPTER XXXII. OUT AMONG THE TREES.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE BALL AT HOUGHTON.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE OLD WOMAN WANDERS BACK AGAIN.
CHAPTER XXXV. LADY HOPE IN THE CASTLE.
CHAPTER XXXVI. DEATH IN THE TOWER-CHAMBER.
CHAPTER I.
LOVE-LIGHTS IN TWO HEARTS.
During fourteen years Hepworth Closs had been a wanderer over the earth.
When he was carried out from the court-room after Mrs. Yates' confession of a crime which he had shrinkingly believed committed by another, he had fainted from the suddenness with which a terrible load had been lifted from his soul.
In that old woman's guilt he had no share. It swept the blackness from the marriage he had protested against as hideously wicked. The wrong he had done was divested of the awful responsibilities which had seemed СКАЧАТЬ