The Great Amulet

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Diver Maud. The Great Amulet

The Great Amulet

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PROLOGUE. BOOK I. AFTER FIVE YEARS. BOOK II. JUST IMPEDIMENT. BOOK III. THE TENTS OF ISHMAEL. BOOK IV. THE VALLEY OF DECISION. THE GREAT AMULET

PROLOGUE. I

II

BOOK I.—AFTER FIVE YEARS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

BOOK II.-JUST IMPEDIMENT

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

"HONOR M. DESMOND."

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

"'ELSIE MAYHEW.'"

BOOK III.-THE TENTS OF ISHMAEL

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER XXVII

CHAPTER XXVIII

CHAPTER XXIX

CHAPTER XXX

CHAPTER XXXI

CHAPTER XXXII

CHAPTER XXXIII

CHAPTER XXXIV

CHAPTER XXXV

CHAPTER XXXVI

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Maud Diver

Published by Good Press, 2019

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"Eldred, … you have no right to speak like that. I won't hear you."

"I have every right; and you shall hear me. It was one thing to know that you could not give me all I wanted at the start. One hoped to set that right, in time. But to accept me because another man's defection had piqued your vanity, … God knows how you could dare to do it! I see now why you found me unlike an ordinary lover. No doubt that other fellow—curse him—took full advantage of his privileged position: while to me you seemed a thing so sacred that I hardly dared lay a hand on you. I might have known that a man who is fool enough to put a woman on a pedestal, is bound to pay a long price for his folly."

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