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Ada Leverson. Bird of Paradise
Bird of Paradise
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CHAPTER I. EXCUSES
CHAPTER II. LADY KELLYNCH
CHAPTER III. NIGEL
CHAPTER IV. RUPERT AT RUMPELMEYER’S
CHAPTER V. A HAPPY HOME
CHAPTER VI. FUTURISM
CHAPTER VII. RUSSIAN BALLET
CHAPTER VIII. PERCY
CHAPTER IX. AN ANONYMOUS LETTER
CHAPTER X. MASTER CLIFFORD KELLYNCH
CHAPTER XI. A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XII. A LOVE SCENE
CHAPTER XIII. RECONCILIATION
CHAPTER XIV “TANGO”
CHAPTER XV. CLIFFORD’S HISTORICAL PLAY
CHAPTER XVI. A SECOND PROPOSAL
CHAPTER XVII. MORE ABOUT RUPERT
CHAPTER XVIII “A SPECIAL FAVOUR”
CHAPTER XIX. A DEVOTED WIFE
CHAPTER XX. RUPERT AGAIN
CHAPTER XXI. THE HILLIERS’ ENTERTAINMENT
CHAPTER XXII. BERTHA AT HOME
CHAPTER XXIII. NIGEL’S LETTER
CHAPTER XXIV. LADY KELLYNCH AT HOME
CHAPTER XXV. MRS. PICKERING
CHAPTER XXVI. NEWS FROM VENICE
CHAPTER XXVII. ANOTHER ANONYMOUS LETTER
CHAPTER XXVIII. AN INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XXIX. NIGEL AND MARY
CHAPTER XXX. MISS BELVOIR
CHAPTER XXXI. MARY’S PLAN
CHAPTER XXXII. PRIVATE FIREWORKS AT THE PICKERINGS’
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CHAPTER XXXIII. NIGEL ABROAD
CHAPTER XXXIV. MOONA
CHAPTER XXXV. TWO WOMEN
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CHAPTER XXXVI. PLAIN SAILING
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Ada Leverson
Published by Good Press, 2019
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A TALL, stately, handsome woman, slow and quiet in movement, dressed in velvet and furs, came deliberately into the room. The magnificent, imposing Lady Kellynch had that quiet dignity and natural ease and distinction sometimes seen in the widow of a knight, but unknown amongst the old aristocracy. It was generally supposed, or, at all events, stated, that the late Sir Percy Kellynch had been knighted by mistake for somebody else; through a muddle owing to somebody’s deafness. The result was the same, since his demise left her with a handle to her name, but no one to turn it (to quote the mot of a well-known wit), and she looked, at the very least, like a peeress in her own right. Indeed, she was the incarnation of what the romantic lower middle classes imagine a great lady;—a dressmaker’s ideal of a duchess. She had the same high forehead, without much thought behind it, so noticeable in her son Percy, and the same clearly cut features; and it was true, as Bertha had said, that she firmly believed the whole of the world, of the slightest importance, consisted of her late husband, herself, her married son Percy, and her boy Clifford at school; the rest of the universe was merely an audience, or a background, for this unique family.
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