The Little Red Foot
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Chambers Robert William. The Little Red Foot
CHAPTER I. SIR WILLIAM PASSES
CHAPTER II. TWO PEERS SANS PEERAGE
CHAPTER III. THE POT BOILS
CHAPTER IV. TWO COUNTRY MICE
CHAPTER V. A SUPPER
CHAPTER VI. RUSTIC GALLANTRY
CHAPTER VII. BEFORE THE STORM
CHAPTER VIII. SHEEP AND GOATS
CHAPTER IX. STOLE AWAY
CHAPTER X. A NIGHT MARCH
CHAPTER XI. SUMMER HOUSE POINT
CHAPTER XII. THE SHAPE IN WHITE
CHAPTER XIII. THE DROWNED LANDS
CHAPTER XIV. THE LITTLE RED FOOT
CHAPTER XV. WEST RIVER
CHAPTER XVI. A TROUBLED MIND
CHAPTER XVII. DEEPER TROUBLE
CHAPTER XVIII. FIRELIGHT
CHAPTER XIX. OUT OF THE NORTH
CHAPTER XX. IN SHADOW-LAND
CHAPTER XXI. THE DEMON
CHAPTER XXII. HAG-RIDDEN
CHAPTER XXIII. WINTER AND SPRING
CHAPTER XXIV. GREEN-COATS
CHAPTER XXV. BURKE'S TAVERN
CHAPTER XXVI. ORDERS
CHAPTER XXVII. FIRE-FLIES
CHAPTER XXVIII. OYANEH!
CHAPTER XXIX. THE WOOD OF BRAKABEEN
CHAPTER XXX. A LONG GOOD-BYE
CHAPTER XXXI "IN THE VALLEY"
AFTERMATH
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Sir John had arrived and I caught sight of his heavy, expressionless face, which seemed more colourless than ever in the candle light.
Consternation reigned in the Hall, – a vast tumult of whispering and guarded gabble among servants, checked by sobs, – and I saw officers come and go, and the tall forms of Mohawks still as pines on a summer night.
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Claudia turned from Billy Alexander and came toward me. Her face was serious, but I saw the devil looking out of her blue eyes.
Nature had given this maid most lovely proportions – that charming slenderness which is plumply moulded – and she stood straight, and tall enough, too, to meet on a level the love-sick gaze of any stout young man she had bedevilled; and she wore a most bewitching countenance – short-nosed, red-lipped, a skin as white as a water-lily, and thick soft hair as black as night, which she wore unpowdered – the dangerous jade!
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