The God in the Car: A Novel
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Hope Anthony. The God in the Car: A Novel
CHAPTER I. AN INSOLENT MEMORY
CHAPTER II. THE COINING OF A NICKNAME
CHAPTER III. MRS. DENNISON'S ORDERS
CHAPTER IV. TWO YOUNG GENTLEMEN
CHAPTER V. A TELEGRAM TO FRANKFORT
CHAPTER VI. WHOSE SHALL IT BE?
CHAPTER VII. AN ATTEMPT TO STOP THE WHEELS
CHAPTER VIII. CONVERTS AND HERETICS
CHAPTER IX. AN OPPRESSIVE ATMOSPHERE
CHAPTER X. A LADY'S BIT OF WORK
CHAPTER XI. AGAINST HIS COMING
CHAPTER XII. IT CAN WAIT
CHAPTER XIII. A SPASM OF PENITENCE
CHAPTER XIV. THE THING OR THE MAN
CHAPTER XV. THE WORK OF A WEEK
CHAPTER XVI. THE LAST BARRIERS
CHAPTER XVII. A SOUND IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XVIII. ON THE MATTER OF A RAILWAY
CHAPTER XIX. PAST PRAYING FOR
CHAPTER XX. THE BARON'S CONTRIBUTION
CHAPTER XXI. A JOINT IN HIS ARMOUR
CHAPTER XXII. A TOAST IN CHAMPAGNE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE CUTTING OF THE KNOT
CHAPTER XXIV. THE RETURN OF A FRIEND
CHAPTER XXV. THE MOVING CAR
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It chanced that Miss Ferrars arrived early at the Seminghams, and she talked with her host on the hearth-rug, while Lady Semingham was elaborately surveying her small but comely person in a mirror at the other end of the long room. Lord Semingham was rather short and rather stout; he hardly looked as if his ancestors had fought at Hastings – perhaps they had not, though the peerage said they had. He wore close-cut black whiskers, and the blue of his jowl witnessed a suppressed beard of great vitality. His single eye-glass reflected answering twinkles to Adela's pince-nez, and his mouth was puckered at the world's constant entertainment; men said that he found his wife alone a sufficient and inexhaustible amusement.
"The Heathers are coming," he said, "and Lady Val and Marjory, and young Haselden, and Ruston."
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"Please do, though. She'll be going soon, and you mayn't get another chance."
"Well, I will then," he answered simply, accompanying the remark with a nod of approval for her sensible reminder. And he went at once.
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