Chetwynd Calverley

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Ainsworth William Harrison. Chetwynd Calverley

INTRODUCTION. – THE YOUNG STEPMOTHER

I. OUSELCROFT

II. TERESA

III. MR. CALVERLEY

IV. FATHER AND SON

V. THE OLD BUTLER

VI. SELF-EXAMINATION

VII. TERRIBLE SUSPICIONS

VIII. DEATH OF MR. CALVERLEY

BOOK THE FIRST – MILDRED

I. SUITORS

II. SIR BRIDGNORTH CHARLTON

III. INQUIRIES

IV. PORTRAITS

V. THE POCKET-BOOK

VI. BRACKLEY HEATH

VII. CAPTAIN DANVERS

VIII. BRACKLEY HALL

IX. LADY BARFLEUR

X. THE GALLERY

XI. WHAT PASSED IN THE GARDEN

XII. BRACKLEY MERE

XIII. PURSUIT OF THE GIPSIES

XIV. THE BLOODHOUND

XV. THE DEERHOUNDS

BOOK THE SECOND – THE HEIRESS OF BRACKLEY HALL

I. THE LAST OF THE OLD CHESHIRE SQUIRES

II. A CONSULTATION

III. CHETWYND’S LETTER

IV. HOW THE DIREFUL NEWS WAS RECEIVED BY MRS. CALVERLEY; AND HOW SIR BRIDGNORTH VOLUNTEERED TO MAKE INQUIRIES AS TO ITS TRUTH

BOOK THE THIRD – WALTER LIDDEL

I. ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE

II. THE HOUSE IN SPENCER’S KENTS

III. INTRODUCES MR. TANKARD, MR. LAEKINS, AND MR. PLEDGER DAPP

IV. SIGEBERT SMART

V. ROMNEY

VI. ROSE HARTLEY

VII. TOM TANKARD

VIII. AS A FOOTMAN

IX. IN WHICH MISS CLOTILDE TRIPP AND MISS FLORA SICKLE-MORE MAKE THEIR APPEARANCE

X. SUPPER

BOOK THE FOURTH – PROBATION

I. THE FIRST STEP

II. THE SECOND ORDEAL

III. THE RETURN TO OUSELCROFT

IV. WHICH OF THE TWO?

V. HOW CAPTAIN DANVERS WAS THROWN OVER BY BOTH LADIES

VI. MRS. CALVERLEY RENDERS CHETWYND AN IMPORTANT SERVICE

VII. HOW CHETWYND AND EMMELINE PLIGHTED THEIR FAITH IN THE OLD CHAPEL

VIII. THE HAUNTED BOOM

IX. WHAT PASSED BETWEEN CAPTAIN DANVERS AND MRS. CALVERLEY IN THE GARDEN

X. AN INVITATION TO TOWN

BOOK THE FIFTH – LADY THICKNESSE

I. IN WHICH CHETWYND LEARNS HOW A QUARREL HAS TAKEN PLACE BETWEEN ROSE AND HARRY NETTERVILLE

II. HARRY NETTERVILLE’S JEALOUS RAGE

III. LORD COURLAND

IV. A VIEW OF THE RING ROAD

V. LORD COURLAND CONTINUES UNDECIDED

VI. LADY THICKNESSE HAS A CONFERENCE WITH SCROPE

VII. THE VISIT TO MRS. HARTLEY’S

VIII. HOW HARRY NETTERVILLE FOUND ROMNEY

IX. CAPTAIN DANVERS ARRIVES IN BELGRAVE SQUARE

X. MRS. CALVERLEY MAKES AN IMPORTANT CONQUEST

XI. LADY THICKNESSE CONSULTS SIR BRIDGNORTH

XII. ANOTHER EXPLANATION

XIII. A SOIREE DANSANTE

XIV. AN UNPLEASANT INQUIRY

XV. EVIDENCE IN CHETWYND’s FAVOUR

XVI. LORD COURLAND PROPOSES TO MRS. CALVERLEY

BOOK THE SIXTH – THE CLAUSE IN MR. CALVERLEY’S WILL

I. OLD NOBBIS QUESTIONS LAURA

II. THE CABINET

III. HOW THE WILL WAS FOUND

IV. A LETTER PROM LORD COURLAND

V. SHOWING WHAT MRS. CALVERLEY’S DRESSING-BOX CONTAINED

VI. POISON IN THE CUP

VII. PANGS OP REMORSE

VIII. HARRY NETTERVILLE AND TOM TANKARD APPEAR AT OUSELCROFT

IX. THE ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION

X. HOW MILDRED RECOVERED

XI. MORE LETTERS

XII. LORD COURLAND ARRIVES AT OUSELCROFT

XIII. A DANCE ON THE LAWN

XIV. HOW MRS. CALVERLEY PASSED THE NIGHT

XV. HOW DOCTOR SPENCER WAS SENT FOR

XVI. CHETWYND MAKES COMMUNICATION TO SIR BRIDGNORTH

XVII, DOCTOR SPENCER

XVIII. DOCTOR SPENCER HAS AN INTERVIEW WITH CHETWYND

XIX. WHAT PASSED BETWEEN LORD COURLAND AND MR. CARTERET

XX. THE PARTING BETWEEN TERESA AND LORD COURLAND

XXI. HOW MRS. CALVERLEY MADE HER WILL

XXII. CHETWYND IS SUMMONED TO HIS SISTER’S ROOM, AND IS SENT BY HER TO TERESA. – THEIR INTERVIEW

XXIII. SIR BRIDGNORTH PROPOSES TO LADY THICKNESSE, AND IS ACCEPTED

XXIV. THE RACE BETWEEN ZEPHYRUS AND TOM TANKARD

XXV. CAPTAIN DANVERS BRINGS DISTRESSING NEWS

XXVI. TERESA’S CONFESSION

XXVII. A MONTH LATER

XXVIII. ALL IS SETTLED

XXIX. CONCLUSION

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One summer evening, Mildred Calverley, accounted the prettiest girl in Cheshire, who had been seated in the drawing-room of her father’s house, Ouselcroft, near Daresbury, vainly trying to read, passed out from the open French window, and made her way towards two magnificent cedars of Lebanon, at the farther end of the lawn.

She was still pacing the lawn with distracted steps, when a well-known voice called out to her, and a tall figure emerged from the shade of the cedars, and Mildred uttered a cry of mingled surprise and delight.

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“If you really are going on this gipsy-hunt, my dear uncle, I’ll go with you,” said Captain Danvers.

“No, no; I don’t want you, Charles,” rejoined Sir Leycester. “Remain with the ladies. You must stay till I return, my dear Mrs. Calverley.”

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