”
“I’m all for the vote,” said Teddy. He was
completely, devastatingly handsome. It won't do to knock at the door, and Jonathan
Wild's house is not quite so easy of entrance as Mr. I can never be grateful enough. "
"This is folly," cried Jack, controlling himself by a powerful effort. ‘Major, sir!’
The major appeared so swiftly that Melusine was instantly suspicious. "Aliva, your child perished with its father. "What would my poor mother say to it?"
"I was sorry to see that about your mother, Jack," observed Hogarth. CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
I THE CARPET-KNIGHT AND THE
7
LADY
II THE ADVENTURE OF ANNABEL
15
III ANNA? OR ANNABEL?
20
IV THE TEMPERAMENT OF AN
26
ARTIST
V “ALCIDE”
31
VI A QUESTION OF
36
IDENTIFICATION
VII MISS PELLISSIER’S SUSPICIONS
41
VIII “WHITE’S”
45
IX BRENDON’S LUCK
54
X THE TRAGEDY OF AN
61
APPETITE
XI THE PUZZLEMENT OF NIGEL
66
ENNISON
XII THE POSTER OF “ALCIDE”
70
XIII “HE WILL NOT FORGET!”
76
XIV “THIS IS MY WIFE”
81
XV A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
89
XVI THE DISCOMFITURE OF SIR
96
JOHN
XVII THE CHANGE IN “ALCIDE”
103
XVIII ANNABEL AND “ALCIDE”
109
XIX “THIS IS NOT THE END”
115
XX ANNA’S SURRENDER
121
XXI HER SISTER’S SECRET
126
XXII AN OLD FOOL
134
XXIII MONTAGUE HILL SEES LIGHT
AT LAST
XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE
XXV THE STEEL EDGE OF THE
TRUTH
XXVI ANNABEL IS WARNED
XXVII JOHN FERRINGHAM,
GENTLEMAN
XXVIII THE HISSING OF “ALCIDE”
XXIX MONTAGUE HILL PLAYS THE
GAME
XXX SIR JOHN’S NECKTIE
XXXI ANNA’S TEA PARTY
XXXII SIX MONTHS AFTER
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188
ANNA THE ADVENTURESS
Chapter I
THE CARPET-KNIGHT AND THE LADY
The girl paused and steadied herself for a moment against a field gate. This discovery made, I hastened back to
London to offer you my hand, but found you had married in the mean time a
smock-faced, smooth-tongued carpenter named Sheppard. All at once he recollected the fact that McClintock's copra plantation was down
that way, somewhere in the South Seas; had an island of his own. ”
“No! Well, I just suggested it. ”
“It’s very kind of you—” began Ann Veronica. Ennison’s manner was certainly not one of a
willing host. One day a pall of
blackness encompassed the sick mind of the giant; and when he came to his
senses, they properly functioned: and he saw his wife by his bedside!
An astonishing idea entered Ruth's head one day—when the novel was complete
in the rough—an astonishing idea because it had not developed long ago.
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