Delilah of the Snows

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Bindloss Harold. Delilah of the Snows

I. INGLEBY FEELS THE BIT

II. INGLEBY STANDS BY HIS OPINIONS

III. CONFLICTING CLAIMS

IV. LEGER'S RESPONSIBILITY

V. THE NEW COUNTRY

VI. HALL SEWELL

VII. HETTY BEARS THE COST

VIII. ON THE TRAIL

IX. HETTY FINDS A WAY

X. UNREST

XI. INGLEBY VENTURES A REMONSTRANCE

XII. THE MAJOR'S BEAR

XIII. ESMOND ACQUIRES INFORMATION

XIV. THE NECESSARY INCENTIVE

XV. INGLEBY STRIKES IT RICH

XVI. AN INVALID RECORD

XVII. TROOPER PROBYN'S MISADVENTURE

XVIII. INGLEBY GOES AWAY

XIX. TROOPER PROBYN COMES BACK

XX. ACCESSORIES

XXI. A DOUBTFUL EXCHANGE

XXII. ALISON'S SAULT

XXIII. INGLEBY LOSES HIS HEAD

XXIV. THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS

XXV. TOMLINSON GETS AWAY

XXVI. THE OBVIOUS THING

XXVII. THE BLOCKADE

XXVIII. SNOWED IN

XXIX. ESMOND'S HANDS ARE TIED

XXX. SEWELL'S DOWNFALL

XXXI. BROKEN IDOLS

XXXII. HIS APPOINTED STATION

Отрывок из книги

It was late on Saturday night, and unpleasantly hot in the little dingy room where Ingleby sat with a companion beneath the slates of a tall, four-story house in a busy cloth-making town. There were several large holes in the threadbare carpet, and a portion of the horsehair stuffing protruded from the dilapidated sofa, while the rickety chairs and discoloured cloth on the table were equally suggestive of severe economy. A very plain bookcase hung on the wall, and the condition of the historical works and treatises on political economy it contained seemed to indicate that they had been purchased secondhand; while an oil lamp burned dimly on the mantel, for the room was almost intolerably stuffy already, and the gas supplied at Hoddam was bad and dear. A confused murmur of voices came up from the narrow street below, with the clatter of heavy shoes and the clamour of the cheap-Jacks in the neighbouring market square.

Ingleby, who had taken off his jacket, lay in a decrepit arm-chair holding a slip of paper in his hand. Opposite him sat another young man with the perspiration beaded on his face, which was sallow and somewhat hollow. He was watching Ingleby with a faint smile in his eyes.

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"If you want the thing put straight, let me try," he said.

Then, to his astonishment, the hand he had laid upon the hat was snatched away, and next moment Hetty, with a red spot in her cheek, stood at least a yard away from him. She had moved so quickly that he was not quite sure how she had got there.

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