John Marchmont's Legacy. Volume 1 of 3

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Braddon Mary Elizabeth. John Marchmont's Legacy. Volume 1 of 3

VOLUME I. CHAPTER I. THE MAN WITH THE BANNER

CHAPTER II. LITTLE MARY

CHAPTER III. ABOUT THE LINCOLNSHIRE PROPERTY

CHAPTER IV. GOING AWAY

CHAPTER V. MARCHMONT TOWERS

CHAPTER VI. THE YOUNG SOLDIER'S RETURN

CHAPTER VII. OLIVIA

CHAPTER VIII "MY LIFE IS COLD, AND DARK, AND DREARY."

CHAPTER IX "WHEN SHALL I CEASE TO BE ALL ALONE?"

CHAPTER X. MARY'S STEPMOTHER

CHAPTER XI. THE DAY OF DESOLATION

CHAPTER XII. PAUL

CHAPTER XIII. OLIVIA'S DESPAIR

CHAPTER XIV. DRIVEN AWAY

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Poor John Marchmont had given his address unwillingly enough to his old pupil. The lodging in Oakley Street was a wretched back-room upon the second-floor of a house whose lower regions were devoted to that species of establishment commonly called a "ladies' wardrobe." The poor gentleman, the teacher of mathematics, the law-writer, the Drury-Lane supernumerary, had shrunk from any exposure of his poverty; but his pupil's imperious good-nature had overridden every objection, and John Marchmont awoke upon the morning after the meeting at Drury-Lane to the rather embarrassing recollection that he was to expect a visitor to breakfast with him.

How was he to entertain this dashing, high-spirited young schoolboy, whose lot was cast in the pleasant pathways of life, and who was no doubt accustomed to see at his matutinal meal such luxuries as John Marchmont had only beheld in the fairy-like realms of comestible beauty exhibited to hungry foot-passengers behind the plate-glass windows of Italian warehouses?

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She had plenty of time before her, so she did not begin at once, but sat upon a stool near the fender, gazing dreamily at the low fire.

"How good and kind he is!" she thought; "just like Cosmo, – only Cosmo was dark; or like Reginald Ravenscroft, – but then he was dark too. I wonder why the people in novels are always dark? How kind he is to papa! Shall we ever go to Dangerfield, I wonder, papa and I? Of course I wouldn't go without papa."

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