Braddon Mary Elizabeth. Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3
CHAPTER I "YOU CALLED ME, AND I CAME HOME TO YOUR HEART."
CHAPTER II "O, TO WHAT END, EXCEPT A JEALOUS ONE?"
CHAPTER III "AND ALL YOUR HONOUR IN A WHISPER LOST."
CHAPTER IV "SMITE HIS HARD HEART, AND SHAKE HIS REPTILE SOUL."
CHAPTER V "I'LL JOIN WITH THEE IN A MOST JUST REVENGE."
CHAPTER VI "WHEN SCREECH-OWLS CROAK UPON THE CHIMNEY-TOPS."
CHAPTER VII. THE SMILES OF NATURE AND THE CHARMS OF ART
CHAPTER VIII "STILL THE PALE DEAD REVIVES, AND LIVES TO ME."
CHAPTER IX "THE DEVIL'S DEAD, THE FURIES NOW MAY LAUGH."
CHAPTER X "THE LITTLE HEARTS WHERE LIGHT-WINGED PASSION REIGNS."
CHAPTER XI "THERE IS ANOTHER AND A BETTER WORLD."
CHAPTER XII "AND THE LAST PANG SHALL TEAR THEE FROM HIS HEART."
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The married lovers were startled at their breakfast next morning by the arrival of Mdlle. Latour in a hackney chair. She had travelled up from Fairmile to the Hercules Pillars in Piccadilly by the heavy night coach, and had come from the inn in a chair. She looked worn and haggard with fatigue and anxiety.
"I knew where I should find my runaway," she said, clasping Irene in her arms, and covering her fair young face with tearful kisses. "I went first to Mr. Durnford's lodgings, where the woman told me he was staying at Lord Lavendale's house in Bloomsbury, and the same chair brought me here. O Irene, what a trick you have played us!"
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He dashed out of the room and along the corridor with the rapid movements of a madman, and they followed him to Mrs. Layburne's room.
She who had once been the delight of crowded playhouses, the admired of bucks and wits in the days of the Godolphin ministry, now presented the saddest spectacle of hopeless decay.
