The Star-Gazers
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Fenn George Manville. The Star-Gazers
Volume One – Chapter One. Lodestars
Volume One – Chapter Two. Mars on the Horizon
Volume One – Chapter Three. Concerning Virgo and Gemini
Volume One – Chapter Four. Serpens
Volume One – Chapter Five. Virgo Asleep
Volume One – Chapter Six. Dust in the Observatory
Volume One – Chapter Seven. Planets in Opposition
Volume One – Chapter Eight. Mars in the Ascendant
Volume One – Chapter Nine. Attraction and Repulsion
Volume One – Chapter Ten. A Cloudy Sky
Volume One – Chapter Eleven. In a Mist
Volume One – Chapter Twelve. The Professor in Company
Volume One – Chapter Thirteen. Mars Makes a Mistake
Volume One – Chapter Fourteen. Terrestrial Trials
Volume One – Chapter Fifteen. Glynne Looks at the Moon, the Professor at his Heart
Volume Two – Chapter One. After a Lapse
Volume Two – Chapter Two. Attraction
Volume Two – Chapter Three. A Search
Volume Two – Chapter Four. A Collision
Volume Two – Chapter Five. The Setting of a Dog’s Star
Volume Two – Chapter Six. Errant Courses
Volume Two – Chapter Seven. Starlight Doings
Volume Two – Chapter Eight. Why the Slugs Ate Lucy’s Mushrooms
Volume Two – Chapter Nine. The Major Happens to be there
Volume Two – Chapter Ten. Lucy Examines the Examiner
Volume Two – Chapter Eleven. The Doctor Brings Alleyne down
Volume Two – Chapter Twelve. Venus more in the Field of View
Volume Two – Chapter Thirteen. And Retires Behind a Cloud
Volume Three – Chapter One. Gemini, with Mars in View
Volume Three – Chapter Two. The Stars at the Nadir
Volume Three – Chapter Three. A Discovery
Volume Three – Chapter Four. Still in the Clouds
Volume Three – Chapter Five. Perturbations
Volume Three – Chapter Six. Facing the Unknown
Volume Three – Chapter Seven. A Problem of Conjunction
Volume Three – Chapter Eight. The Fallen Star
Volume Three – Chapter Nine. Torn from her Sphere
Volume Three – Chapter Ten. The Little Orb Turns Round
Volume Three – Chapter Eleven. Drawn Together
Volume Three – Chapter Twelve. Re the Focus
Volume Three – Chapter Thirteen. As Through a Glass
Volume Three – Chapter Fourteen. Far Seeing
Volume Three – Chapter Fifteen. The Image Fades
Volume Three – Chapter Sixteen. Celestial Matters
Volume Three – Chapter Seventeen. The Last Look Around
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In the drawing-room at The Warren, Mrs Rolph, a handsome, dignified lady of five-and-forty, was sitting back, with her brows knit, looking frowningly at a young and pretty girl of nineteen, whose eyes were puzzling, for in one light they seemed beautiful, in another shifting. She was a Rosetti-ish style of girl, with too much neck, a tangle of dark red hair, and lips of that peculiar pout seen in the above artist’s pictures, in conjunction with heavily-lidded eyes, and suggesting at one moment infantile retraction from a feeding-bottle, at another parting from the last kiss. There was a want of frankness in her countenance that would have struck a stranger at once, till she spoke, when the soft, winning coo of her voice proved an advocate which made the disingenuous looks and words fade into insignificance.
Her voice sounded very sweet and low now, as she said softly, —
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“Hang poor Madge! Look here, once for all, mother; I’m not a witch in Macbeth. I don’t want three ounces of a red-haired wench – nor seven stone neither.”
“Rob! Shame!”
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