The Prophet's Mantle
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Эдит Несбит. The Prophet's Mantle
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I. FATHER AND SONS
CHAPTER II. A NARROW ESCAPE
CHAPTER III. THE NEW MASTERS
CHAPTER IV. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
CHAPTER V. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER VI. BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS
CHAPTER VII. SUNDAY EVENING IN SOHO
CHAPTER VIII 'YOU LIE!'
CHAPTER IX. AT SPRAY'S BUILDINGS
CHAPTER X. A SOCIALIST
CHAPTER XI. COUNT LITVINOFF IS SYMPATHETIC
CHAPTER XII. SUCCESSFUL ANGLING
CHAPTER XIII. A FAIR MORNING'S WORK
CHAPTER XIV. A PEACEMAKER
CHAPTER XV. THE CLEON
CHAPTER XVI. GOING HOME
CHAPTER XVII. AN UNEXPECTED ADHERENT
CHAPTER XVIII. A MIXED ASSEMBLY
CHAPTER XIX. AN HONEST MAN AND A BRAVE ONE
CHAPTER XX. IMPROVING PROSPECTS
CHAPTER XXI. FRIENDS IN COUNCIL
CHAPTER XXII. A FORLORN HOPE
CHAPTER XXIII. FIRE!
CHAPTER XXIV. AFTER THE FIRE
CHAPTER XXV. AT MARLBOROUGH VILLA
CHAPTER XXVI. ALL A MISTAKE
CHAPTER XXVII. MAKING IT UP
CHAPTER XXVIII. VENGEANCE ASTRAY
CHAPTER XXIX. BACK FROM THE DEAD
CHAPTER XXX. TALKING THINGS OVER
CHAPTER XXXI 'MY LITTLE GIRL.'
CHAPTER XXXII 'HAND IN HAND.'
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THE light was fading among the Derbyshire hills. The trees, now almost bare, were stirred by the fretful wind into what seemed like a passionate wail for their own lost loveliness, and on the wide bare stretch of moorland behind the house the strange weird cry of the plovers sounded like a dirge over the dead summer. The sharp, intermittent rain had beaten all the beauty out of the few late autumn flowers in the garden, and it was tender of the twilight to hasten to deepen into a darkness heavy enough to hide such a grey desolate picture.
Inside Thornsett Edge another and a deeper darkness was falling. Old Richard Ferrier was sick unto death, and he alone of all the household knew it. He knew it, and he was not sorry. Yet he sighed.
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'Tell him Mr Ferrier wishes to see him at once.'
'Miss Ferrier told him, sir, directly he came in.'
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