Mount Royal: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3

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Braddon Mary Elizabeth. Mount Royal: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3

CHAPTER I "WITH SUCH REMORSELESS SPEED STILL COME NEW WOES."

CHAPTER II "YOURS ON MONDAY, GOD'S TO-DAY."

CHAPTER III. DUEL OR MURDER?

CHAPTER IV "DUST TO DUST."

CHAPTER V "PAIN FOR THY GIRDLE, AND SORROW UPON THY HEAD."

CHAPTER VI "I WILL HAVE NO MERCY ON HIM."

CHAPTER VII "GAI DONC; LA VOYAGEUSE, AU COUP DU PÈLERIN!"

CHAPTER VIII "TIME TURNS THE OLD DAYS TO DERISION."

CHAPTER IX "THOU SHOULDST COME LIKE A FURY CROWNED WITH SNAKES."

CHAPTER X "HIS LADY SMILES; DELIGHT IS IN HER FACE."

CHAPTER XI "LOVE BORE SUCH BITTER AND SUCH DEADLY FRUIT."

CHAPTER XII "SHE STOOD UP IN BITTER CASE, WITH A PALE YET STEADY FACE."

CHAPTER XIII. WE HAVE DONE WITH TEARS AND TREASONS

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The warning gong sounded at half-past seven as usual, and at eight the butler announced dinner. Captain Vandeleur and Mr. Montagu had returned from Bodmin, and they were grouped in front of the fire talking in undertones with Mr. Tregonell, while Christabel and the younger Miss Vandeleur sat on a sofa, silent, after a few murmured expressions of grief on the part of the latter lady.

"It is like a dream," sighed Mopsy, this being the one remark which a young person of her calibre inevitably makes upon such an occasion. "It is like a dreadful dream – playing billiards last night, and now – dead! It is too awful."

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"Where should I have been? Surely you can guess! I have been to see him."

"To the farm – alone – at night?"

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