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Castle Egerton. The Light of Scarthey
The Light of Scarthey
Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
PART I
SIR ADRIAN LANDALE, LIGHT-KEEPER OF SCARTHEY
THE LIGHT OF SCARTHEY
CHAPTER I
THE PEEL OF SCARTHEY
CHAPTER II
THE LIGHT-KEEPER
CHAPTER III
DAY DREAMS: A PHILOSOPHER'S FATE
CHAPTER IV
DAY DREAMS: A FAIR EMISSARY
CHAPTER V
THE AWAKENING
CHAPTER VI
THE WHEEL OF TIME
CHAPTER VII
FOREBODINGS OF GLADNESS
CHAPTER VIII
THE PATH OF WASTED YEARS
CHAPTER IX
A GENEALOGICAL EPISTLE
PART II
"MURTHERING MOLL THE SECOND"
CHAPTER X
THE THRESHOLD OF WOMANHOOD
CHAPTER XI
A MASTERFUL OLD MAID
CHAPTER XII
A RECORD AND A PRESENTMENT
CHAPTER XIII
THE DISTANT LIGHT
CHAPTER XIV
THE TOWER OF LIVERPOOL: MASTER AND MAN
CHAPTER XV
UNDER THE LIGHT
CHAPTER XVI
THE RECLUSE AND THE SQUIRE
PART III
"CAPTAIN JACK," THE GOLD SMUGGLER
CHAPTER XVII
THE GOLD SMUGGLER AND THE PHILOSOPHER
CHAPTER XVIII
"LOVE GILDS THE SCENE AND WOMAN GUIDES THE PLOT"
CHAPTER XIX
A JUNIOR'S OPINION
CHAPTER XX
TWO MONTHS LATER: THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
CHAPTER XXI
THE DAWN OF AN EVENTFUL DAY
CHAPTER XXII
THE DAY: MORNING
CHAPTER XXIII
THE DAY: NOON
CHAPTER XXIV
THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XXV
THE FIGHT FOR THE OPEN
CHAPTER XXVI
THE THREE COLOURS
CHAPTER XXVII
THE LIGHT AGAIN—THE LADY AND THE CARGO
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE END OF THE THREAD
CHAPTER XXIX
THE LIGHT GOES OUT
CHAPTER XXX
HUSBAND AND WIFE
CHAPTER XXXI
IN LANCASTER CASTLE
CHAPTER XXXII
THE ONE HE LOVED AND THE ONE WHO LOVED HIM
CHAPTER XXXIII
LAUNCHED ON THE GREAT WAVE
CHAPTER XXXIV
THE GIBBET ON THE SANDS
CHAPTER XXXV
THE LIGHT REKINDLED
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Egerton Castle
A Romance
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"Oh, we are going to have a squall, say you," interpreted the master, rising to inspect the weather-glass, which in truth had fallen deep with much suddenness. "More than a squall, I think; this looks like a hurricane coming. But since you are safe home, all's well; we are secure and sound here, and the fishing fleet are drawing in, I see," peering through the seaward window. "And now," continued Adrian, laying down his napkin, and brushing away a few crumbs from the folds of a faultless silk stock, "what have you for me there—and what news?"
"News, your honour! Oh, for that I have news this time," said Mr. Renny Potter, with an emphatic nod, "but if your honour will permit, I shall say them last. I have brought the clothes and the linen, the wine, the brandy, and the books. Brandy and wine, your honour, I heard, out of the last prize brought into Liverpool, and a Nantes ship it was, too"—this in a pathetically philosophical tone. Then after a pause: "Also provisions and bulbs for the devil's pot, as Margery will call it. But there is no saying, your honour eats more when I have brought him back onions, eschalot, and ail; now do I lie, your honour? May I?" added the speaker, and forthwith took his answer from his master's smile; "may I respectfully see what the old one has kitchened for you when I was not there?"
