What's Bred in the Bone
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Allen Grant. What's Bred in the Bone
CHAPTER I. ELMA'S STRANGER
CHAPTER II. TWO'S COMPANY
CHAPTER III. CYRIL WARING'S BROTHER
CHAPTER IV. INSIDE THE TUNNEL
CHAPTER V. GRATITUDE
CHAPTER VI. TWO STRANGE MEETINGS
CHAPTER VII. KELMSCOTT OF TILGATE
CHAPTER VIII. ELMA BREAKS OUT
CHAPTER IX. AND AFTER?
CHAPTER X. COLONEL KELMSCOTT'S REPENTANCE
CHAPTER XI. A FAMILY JAR
CHAPTER XII. IN SILENCE AND TEARS
CHAPTER XIII. BUSINESS FIRST
CHAPTER XIV. MUSIC HATH POWER
CHAPTER XV. THE PATH OF DUTY
CHAPTER XVI. STRUGGLE AND VICTORY
CHAPTER XVII. VISIONS OF WEALTH
CHAPTER XVIII. GENTLE WOOER
CHAPTER XIX. SELF OR BEARER
CHAPTER XX. MONTAGUE NEVITT FINESSES
CHAPTER XXI. COLONEL KELMSCOTT'S PUNISHMENT
CHAPTER XXII. CROSS PURPOSES
CHAPTER XXIII. GUY IN LUCK
CHAPTER XXIV. A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER XXV. LEAD TRUMPS
CHAPTER XXVI. A CHANCE MEETING
CHAPTER XXVII. SOMETHING TO THEIR ADVANTAGE
CHAPTER XXVIII. MISTAKEN IDENTITY
CHAPTER XXIX. WOMAN'S INTUITION
CHAPTER XXX. FRESH DISCOVERIES
CHAPTER XXXI "GOLDEN JOYS."
CHAPTER XXXII. A NEW DEPARTURE
CHAPTER XXXIII. TIME FLIES
CHAPTER XXXIV. A STROKE FOR FREEDOM
CHAPTER XXXV. PERILS BY THE WAY
CHAPTER XXXVI. DESERTED
CHAPTER XXXVII. AUX ARMES!
CHAPTER XXXVIII. NEWS FROM THE CAPE
CHAPTER XXXIX. A GLEAM OF LIGHT
CHAPTER XL. THE BOLT FALLS
CHAPTER XLI. WHAT JUDGE?
CHAPTER XLII. UNEXPECTED EVIDENCE
CHAPTER XLIII. SIR GILBERT'S TEMPTATION
CHAPTER XLIV. AT BAY
CHAPTER XLV. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
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Elma was just engaged in debating with herself internally how a young lady of perfect manners and impeccable breeding, travelling without a chaperon, ought to behave under such trying circumstances, after having allowed herself to be drawn unawares into familiar conversation with a most attractive young artist, when all of a sudden a rapid jerk of the carriage succeeded in extricating her perforce, and against her will, from this awkward dilemma. Something sharp pulled up their train unexpectedly. She was aware of a loud noise and a crash in front, almost instantaneously followed by a thrilling jar—a low dull thud—a sound of broken glass—a quick blank stoppage. Next instant she found herself flung wildly forward into her neighbour's arms, while the artist, for his part, with outstretched hands, was vainly endeavouring to break the force of the fall for her.
All she knew for the first few minutes was merely that there had been an accident to the train, and they were standing still now in the darkness of the tunnel.
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Elma glanced up at him with a sudden rush of gratitude. By the dim light of the oil lamp that still flickered feebly in the carriage overhead, she could see his face; and she knew by the look in those truthful eyes that he really meant it. He really meant he was glad he'd come on and exposed himself to this risk, which he might otherwise have avoided, because he would be sorry to think a helpless woman should be left alone by herself in the dark to face it. And, frightened as she was, she was glad of it too. To be alone would be awful. This was pre-eminently one of those many positions in life in which a woman prefers to have a man beside her.
And yet most men, she knew, would have thought to themselves at once, "What a fool I was to come on beyond my proper station, and let myself in for this beastly scrape, just because I'd go a few miles further with a pretty girl I never saw in my life before, and will probably never see in my life again, if I once get well out of this precious predicament."
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