Amethyst: The Story of a Beauty
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Coleridge Christabel Rose. Amethyst: The Story of a Beauty
Chapter One. A Champagne Luncheon
Chapter Two. In the Shade
Chapter Three. Neighbours
Chapter Four. The Home Circle
Chapter Five. Sisters
Chapter Six. Historical Types
Chapter Seven. No Cunning to be Strange
Chapter Eight. The Earthly Paradise
Chapter Nine. Tony
Chapter Ten. Eden’s Gate
Chapter Eleven. As it Looked
Chapter Twelve. As it was
Chapter Thirteen. Is it True?
Chapter Fourteen. The Wickedness of the World
Chapter Fifteen. All Over
Chapter Sixteen. Better
Chapter Seventeen “Iris.”
Chapter Eighteen. Glimpses of Heaven
Chapter Nineteen. Marshalling the Company
Chapter Twenty. The Beauty
Chapter Twenty One. At the End of the Rainbow
Chapter Twenty Two. The Flaming Sword
Chapter Twenty Three. Reparation
Chapter Twenty Four. The Dead Past
Chapter Twenty Five. Tempted of the Devil
Chapter Twenty Six. According to his Light
Chapter Twenty Seven. A Faithful Servant
Chapter Twenty Eight. Escaped
Chapter Twenty Nine. The Wide, Wide World
Chapter Thirty “Ayont the Isle of Skye.”
Chapter Thirty One. Commonplace
Chapter Thirty Two. An Interest in Life
Chapter Thirty Three. Twisting the Threads of Fate
Chapter Thirty Four. All these things have ceased to be with my Desire of Life
Chapter Thirty Five. The Power of the Past
Chapter Thirty Six. Out of the Deep
Chapter Thirty Seven. Peace
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Two days later, Miss Haredale came back from her visit to Cleverley, and reached her pretty cottage at Silverfold with a sad heart and many misgivings.
And Amethyst, who had been at her school during her aunt’s absence, had still to be told of what had happened, of the new life in store for her. How could the fond aunt bring herself to tell her darling that their life together must end?
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“I don’t look like a child,” she said to herself, “and I know so much more of the world than the girls who are always shut up in school, and never see a newspaper or read a novel. I should be fit for a teacher, I might go home for one season and be presented, if mother likes, and then come back and help auntie. I should like to know my sisters. It strikes me I do know very little about them all. Yes, I should like to go home.”
Amethyst’s eyes filled with tears, as a sudden yearning for the home circle from which she had been shut out possessed her. The affections of a child taken out of its natural place cannot flow in one smooth unbroken stream, and Amethyst felt that there was a contention within her. Her heart went out to the unknown home, and though she went down-stairs again, prepared to urge her scheme of self-help upon her aunt, it was already with a conscious sense of self-conquest that she did so.
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