Название: Cast Adrift
Автор: T. S. Arthur
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066234478
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T. S. Arthur
Cast Adrift
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066234478
Table of Contents
DETAILED CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. The unwelcome babe—The defrauded young mother—The struggle
between life and death—“Your baby is in heaven”—A brief retrospect—A
marriage for social position—An ambitious wife and a disappointed
husband—The young daughter—The matrimonial market—The Circassian
slaves of modern society—The highest bidder—Disappearance—The old sad
story—Secret marriage—The letters—Disappointed ambition—Interview
between the parents—The mother's purpose—“Baffled, but not
defeated”—The father's surprise—The returned daughter—Forgiven—“I am
not going away again, father dear”—Insecurity and distrust
CHAPTER II. The hatred of a bad woman—Mrs. Dinneford's plans for the
destruction of Granger—Starting in business—Plots of Mrs. Dinneford
and Freeling—The discounted notes—The trap—Granger's suspicions
aroused—Forgery—Mrs. Dinneford relentless—The arrest—Fresh evidence
of crime upon Granger's person—The shock to Edith—“That night her baby
was born”
CHAPTER III. “It is a splendid boy”—A convenient, non-interfering
family doctor—Cast adrift—Into the world in a basket, unnamed
and disowned—Edith's second struggle back to life—Her mind a
blank—Granger convicted of forgery—Seeks to gain knowledge of his
child—The doctor's evasion and ignorance—An insane asylum instead of
State's prison—Edith's slow return to intelligence—“There's something
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