Nobody's Child

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Dejeans Elizabeth. Nobody's Child

I. ANN

II. THREE MEN AND A GIRL

III. PENNIMAN AND WESTMORE

IV. BUT IF HE FAILED HER?

V. IN COLONIAL FASHION

VI. BAIRD RECONNOITERS

VII. THE WESTMORES OF WESTMORE

VIII. THE COLONEL IS SUSPICIOUS

IX. A FEMININE PROCEDURE

X. THE INFINITELY PAINFUL THING

XI. KEPT IN THE DARK

XII. A VENDETTA

XIII. INERADICABLY BRANDED

XIV. THE MISFITS

XV. AS WITH A CHILD

XVI "IT WAS BORN IN HER"

XVII. COMPLEXITIES

XVIII "YOU'RE ALL I HAVE"

XIX. A BARGAIN

XX. MARRY? YES

XXI. A LOT OF PLANNING

XXII. IMPRESSIONS

XXIII. CHAOTIC UNCERTAINTY

XXIV. A DEFINITION OF LOVE

XXV. BECAUSE SHE LOVED TOO MUCH

XXVI. THE ETERNAL ATTRACTION

XXVII. THE THING

XXVIII. THE HELL-HOLE OF THE WESTMORES

XXIX "WHAT'S NOT KNOWN"

XXX. CONTENT

XXXI. THE FAMILY NAME

XXXII. THE DEATH-TRAP

XXXIII. FROM DESPAIR TO HOPE

XXXIV. BEN BROKAW EXPLAINS

XXXV. WAITING

XXXVI "IT LIES WITH ANN"

XXXVII. COLD CASH

XXXVIII. THE REVELATION

XXXIX "WILL YOU GO WITH ME?"

CONCLUSION

Отрывок из книги

Ann had crossed the creek and reached the prostrate man before the other horseman had time to dismount. She was bending over Garvin Westmore when the other stood over her.

"Hurt?" he asked tersely.

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"You shall in a minute – but not like this." In her run down to the creek her hood had slipped off, and he tried now to draw it up over her fallen hair. She lifted shaking hands and began hurriedly to coil the dark mass about her head.

Baird watched them curiously. The girl was something more than pretty. The brown cape with hood attached had concealed her, but when she lifted her arms he saw that she was slim and rounded, very perfectly so, and not too tall. Her hair was noticeably black, a dense black, heavy and with a tendency to curl. As she gathered it up, Baird noticed how beautifully it grew about her low forehead – that her features were regular, and that, contrasted with black hair and brows and lashes, her skin was very white, luminously white. She was certainly very young; her cheeks and chin were as softly rounded as a baby's. And Garvin was a particularly good-looking man, of the unmistakably inbred type, tall, slender, dark, with clear-cut features, well-marked brows and fine eyes. His were the Westmore features refined into nervousness by inbreeding, the features of his great-great-grandfather, colonial aristocrat and owner of the Mine Banks.

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