Miracle Gold: A Novel (Vol. 1 of 3)

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Dowling Richard. Miracle Gold: A Novel (Vol. 1 of 3)

CHAPTER I. TOO LATE

CHAPTER II. VOICES OF THE UNSEEN

CHAPTER III. AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE

CHAPTER IV. ON THE WING

CHAPTER V. MR. LEIGH'S DEPUTY

CHAPTER VI. OSCAR LEIGH'S CAVE OF MAGIC

CHAPTER VII. THE NEGRO JUGGLER

CHAPTER VIII. THE JUGGLER'S LAST FEAT

CHAPTER IX "ONLY A WOMAN."

CHAPTER X. LEIGH PROMISES ONE VISIT AND PAYS ANOTHER

CHAPTER XI. STRANGER THAN MIRACLE GOLD

CHAPTER XII. AN OMEN

CHAPTER XIII. IN CURZON STREET

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Edith Grace gathered her cloak around her and began walking once more. The road, under the heavy trees, was now blindly dark. She had taken nothing out of that house but the clothes she wore, not even her dressing bag. In the first place, she had not cared to encumber herself; and, in the second place, if she by chance met Mrs. Brown or Oscar Leigh, she would not appear to be contemplating flight. She could write for her trunk and bag when she found herself safely at home once more.

She was new to the world and affairs. She did not know or care whether her action in leaving Eltham House was legal or not. The question did not arise in her mind. If she had been told she had incurred a penalty, she would have said: "All I own on earth is in that house; but I would forego it all, I would die rather than stay there." If she were asked why, she would have said: "Because that odious, insolent man lied when he said I should see little of him. He was the first person I met. Because he dared-had the intolerable impudence to try and kiss me. Because, having failed in his attempt, he pursued me through the house with his hateful attentions. I am very poor. I am obliged to do something for a living. I am not a cook or a dairymaid. My father was a gentleman, and my mother was a lady. We come of an old Derbyshire family. I am a lady, and you can kill me, but you cannot make me bow my head or shame my blood. If, when he tried to kiss me in the hall, I had had a weapon, I should have stabbed him or shot him. If I had a father or a brother he should be chastised. I know nothing of the law, care nothing for it."

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"Just now, Oscar. Do you mean here?"

"No, not here. In London. You do not believe in magic, mother?"

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