Hard Cash

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Charles Reade Reade. Hard Cash

Hard Cash

Table of Contents

PREFACE

HARD CASH

PROLOGUE

“'EDWARD DODD.'”

CHAPTER I

“ALFRED HARDIE”

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

FOR MISS DODD

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FOR MISS DODD

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FOR MISS DODD

FOR MISS DODD

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CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

JULIA took Mr. Hardie's note and read it:—

“RICHARD HARDIE.”

“LUCY DODD.”

“ALFRED HARDIE.”

“LUCY DODD.”

“ALFRED HARDIE.”

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CRASH!

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

“WHAT will ye give me, and I'll tell ye?” said Maxley to Alfred Hardie

CHAPTER XXI

“HARDIE! VILLAIN!”

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

“R. H.”

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

“'LOUISA BERESFORD.'”

“LUCY DODD.”

CHAPTER XXVII

CHAPTER XXVIII

ALFRED.'

CHAPTER XXIX

CHAPTER XXX

CHAPTER XXXI

“MARGARET BLACK

CHAPTER XXXII

CHAPTER XXXIII

CHAPTER XXXIV

CHAPTER XXXV

CHAPTER XXXVI

CHAPTER XXXVII

CHAPTER XXXVIII

“RICHARD HARDIE”

CHAPTER XXXIX

CHAPTER XL

CHAPTER XLI

CHAPTER XLI

CHAPTER XLII

CHAPTER XLIII

IF we could always know at the time what we are doing

CHAPTER XLIV

“LUCY DODD.”

CHAPTER XLV

CHAPTER XLVI

“JOHN COMPTON.”

“LUCY DODD”

CHAPTER XLVII

CHAPTER XLVIII

CHAPTER XLIX

CHAPTER L

LAW

CHAPTER LI

CHAPTER LII

CHAPTER LIII

NOAH SKINNER

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CHAPTER LIV

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Charles Reade

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Julia sighed again. But it sounded now half like a sigh of relief—the final sigh, with which the fair consent to be consoled.

And indeed this improvement in the music did not escape Hardie. He felt he was on the right tack: he enumerated fluently, and by name, many good men, besides Dean Swift, who had been ploughed, yet had cultivated the field of letters in their turn; and, in short, he was so earnest and plausible, that something like a smile hovered about his hearer's lips, and she glanced askant at him with furtive gratitude from under her silky lashes. But it soon recurred to her that this was rather a long interview to accord to “a stranger,” and under the moon; so she said a little stiffly, “And was this what you were good enough to wish to say to me, Mr. Hardie?”

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