The Moonlit Way: A Novel

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Chambers Robert William. The Moonlit Way: A Novel

PROLOGUE. CLAIRE-DE-LUNE

I. A SHADOW DANCE

II. SUNRISE

III. SUNSET

IV. DUSK

V. IN DRAGON COURT

VI. DULCIE

VII. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

VIII. DULCIE ANSWERS

IX. HER DAY

X. HER EVENING

XI. HER NIGHT

XII. THE LAST MAIL

XIII. A MIDNIGHT TÊTE-À-TÊTE

XIV. PROBLEMS

XV. BLACKMAIL

XVI. THE WATCHER

XVII. A CONFERENCE

XVIII. THE BABBLER

XIX. A CHANCE ENCOUNTER

XX. GROGAN’S

XXI. THE WHITE BLACKBIRD

XXII. FORELAND FARMS

XXIII. A LION IN THE PATH

XXIV. A SILENT HOUSE

XXV. STARLIGHT

XXVI ’BE-N EIRINN I!

XXVII. THE MOONLIT WAY

XXVIII. GREEN JACKETS

XXIX. ASTHORE

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Three years later Destiny still wore a rosy face for Nihla Quellen. And, for a young American of whom Nihla had never even heard, Destiny still remained the laughing jade he had always known, beckoning him ever nearer, with the coquettish promise of her curved forefinger, to fame and wealth immeasurable.

Seated now on a moonlit lawn, before his sketching easel, this optimistic young man, whose name was Barres, continued to observe the movements of a dim white figure which had emerged from the villa opposite, and was now stealing toward him across the dew-drenched grass.

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He went down to the river, where the gaily painted row-boats and punts lay, and scanned the silvered 26 flood, tortured by indefinite apprehensions. About dawn he started toward the weed-grown, slippery river-stairs for the last time, still crowned with his tinsel cap; and there in the darkness he found his aged boat-man, fishing for gudgeon with a four-cornered net suspended to the end of a bamboo pole.

“Have you see anything of Mademoiselle Nihla?” he demanded, in a heavy, unsteady voice, tremulous with indefinable fears.

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