The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival

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Braddon Mary Elizabeth. The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival

CHAPTER I. GRUB-STREET SCRIBBLERS

CHAPTER II. MISS LESTER, OF THE PATENT THEATRES

CHAPTER III. AT MRS. MANDALAY'S ROOMS

CHAPTER IV. A MORNING CALL

CHAPTER V. A SERIOUS FAMILY

CHAPTER VI. A WOMAN WHO COULD SAY NO

CHAPTER VII. PRIDE CONQUERS LOVE

CHAPTER VIII. THE LOVE THAT FOLLOWS THE DEAD

CHAPTER IX. THE SANDS RUN DOWN

CHAPTER X. A DUTY VISIT

CHAPTER XI. ANTONIA'S INITIATION

CHAPTER XII "SO RUN THAT YE MAY OBTAIN."

CHAPTER XIII. IN ST. JAMES'S SQUARE

CHAPTER XIV "ONE THREAD IN LIFE WORTH SPINNING."

CHAPTER XV "MY LADY AND MY LOVE."

CHAPTER XVI. DEATH AND VICTORY

CHAPTER XVII. SWORD AND BIBLE

CHAPTER XVIII "AS A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED."

CHAPTER XIX "CHOOSE OF TWO LOVES."

CHAPTER XX "AND CLEAVE UNTO THE BEST."

EPILOGUE

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Besides Mrs. Potter, to whom she was warmly attached, Antonia had one friend, an actress at Drury Lane, who had acted in Mr. Thornton's comedy of How to please her, and who had made his daughter's acquaintance at the wings while his play was in progress. Patty Lester was, perhaps, hardly the kind of person a careful father would have chosen for his youthful daughter's bosom friend, for Patty was of the world worldly, and had somewhat lax notions of morality, though there was nothing to be said against her personally. No nobleman's name had ever been bracketed with hers in the newspapers, nor had her character suffered from any intrigue with a brother actor. But she gave herself no airs of superiority over her less virtuous sisters, nor was she averse to the frivolous attentions and the trifling gifts of those ancient beaux and juvenile macaronis who fluttered at the side-scenes and got in the way of the stage-carpenters.

Thornton had not reared his daughter in Arcadian ignorance of evil, and he had no fear of her being influenced by Miss Lester's easy views of conduct.

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"I hate books. 'Twas as much as I could do to learn to read. But there's one matter in which your father has been unkind to you."

"No, no – in nothing."

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