A Day's Ride
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Charles James Lever. A Day's Ride
A Day's Ride
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A LIFE'S ROMANCE
CHAPTER I. I PREPARE TO SEEK ADVENTURES
CHAPTER II. BLONDEL AND I SET OUT
CHAPTER III. TRUTH NOT ALWAYS IN WINE
CHAPTER IV. PLEASANT REFLECTIONS ON AWAKING
CHAPTER V. THE ROSARY AT INISTIOGE
CHAPTER VI. MY SELF-EXAMINATION
CHAPTER VII. FATHER DYKE'S LETTER
CHAPTER VIII. IMAGINATION STIMULATED BY BRANDY AND WATER
CHAPTER IX. HIS INTEREST IN A LADY FELLOW-TRAVELLER
CHAPTER X. THE PERILS OF MY JOURNEY TO OSTEND
CHAPTER XI. A JEALOUS HUSBAND
CHAPTER XII. THE DUCHY OF HESSE-KALBBRATONSTADT
CHAPTER XIII. I CALL AT THE BRITISH LEGATION
CHAPTER XIV. SHAMEFUL NEGLECT OF A PUBLIC SERVANT
CHAPTER XV. I LECTURE THE AMBASSADOR'S SISTER
CHAPTER XVI. UNPLEASANT TURN TO AN AGREEABLE CONVERSE
CHAPTER XVII. MRS. KEATS MOVES MY INDIGNATION
CHAPTER XVIII. AN IMPATIENT SUMMONS
CHAPTER XIX. MRS. KEATS'S MYSTERIOUS COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER XX. THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED
CHAPTER XXI. HOW I PLAY THE PRINCE
CHAPTER XXII. INCIDENTS OF THE SECOND DAY'S JOURNEY
CHAPTER XXIII. JEALOUSY UNSUPPORTED BY COURAGE
CHAPTER XXIV. MY CANDOR AS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHER
CHAPTER XXV. I MAINTAIN A DIGNIFIED RESERVE
CHAPTER XXVI. VATERCHEN AND TINTEFLECK
CHAPTER XXVII. I ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW SOCIAL PREJUDICES
CHAPTER XXVIII. RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENT
CHAPTER XXIX. ON FOOT AND IN LOW COMPANY
CHAPTER XXX. VATERCHEN'S NARRATIVE
I give the old man's story, as nearly as I can, the way he told it
CHAPTER XXXI. A GENIUS FOR CARICATURE
CHAPTER XXXII. I RELIEVE MYSELF OF MY PURSE
CHAPTER XXXIII. MY ELOQUENCE BEFORE THE CONSTANCE MAGISTRATES
CHAPTER XXXIV. A SUMPTUOUS DINNER AND AN EMPTY POCKET
CHAPTER XXXV. HART CROFTON'S COMMISSION
CHAPTER XXXVI. FURTHER INTERCOURSE WITH HARPAR
CHAPTER XXXVII. MY EXPLOSION AT THE TABLE D'HÔTE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE DUEL WITH PRINCE MAX
CHAPTER XXXIX. ON THE EDGE OF A TORRENT
CHAPTER XL. I AM DRAGGED AS A PRISONER TO FELDKIRCH
CHAPTER XLI. THE ACT OF ACCUSATION
CHAPTER XLII. A GLIMPSE OF AN OLD FRIEND
CHAPTER XLIII. I AM CONFINED IN THE AMBRAS SCHLOSS
CHAPTER XLIV. A VISIT FROM THE HON. GREY BULLER
CHAPTER XLV. MY CANDID AVOWAL TO KATE HERBERT
CHAPTER XLVI. CAPTAIN ROGERS STANDS MY FRIEND
CHAPTER XLVII. MY DUELLING AMBITION AGAIN DISAPPOINTED
CHAPTER XLVIII. FINAL ADVENTURES AND SETTLEMENT
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Charles James Lever
A Life's Romance
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“What an artful villain my counterpart must be!” I said. I stared in the glass to see if I could discover the sheepish-ness they laid such stress on. I was pale, to be sure, and my hair a light brown, but so was Shelley's; indeed, there was a wild, but soft expression in my eyes that resembled his, and I could recognize many things in our natures that seemed to correspond. It was the poetic dreaminess, the lofty abstractedness from all the petty cares of every-day life which vulgar people set down as simplicity; and thus—
“Well, then,” resumed I, “some day or other it may chance that you will be called on to remember and recall this conversation between us; if so, it will be important that you should have a clear and distinct memory of the fact that when I awoke in the morning, and asked for my horse, the answer you made me was—What was the answer you made me?”
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