The Heart of a Woman
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Emma Orczy. The Heart of a Woman
CHAPTER I. WHICH TELLS OF A VERY COMMONPLACE INCIDENT
CHAPTER II. ONCE MORE THE OBVIOUS
CHAPTER III. AND NOW ALMOST LIKE A DREAM
CHAPTER IV. NOTHING REALLY TANGIBLE
CHAPTER V. JUST AN OBVIOUS DUTY
CHAPTER VI. JUST A DISAGREEABLE OLD MAN
CHAPTER VII. THE PART PLAYED BY A FIVE-POUND NOTE
CHAPTER VIII. AND THUS THE SHADOW DESCENDED
CHAPTER IX. WHICH TELLS OF THE INEVITABLE RESULT
CHAPTER X. LIFE MUST GO ON JUST THE SAME
CHAPTER XI. AND THERE ARE SOCIAL DUTIES TO PERFORM
CHAPTER XII. SHALL A MAN ESCAPE HIS FATE?
CHAPTER XIII. THEY HAVE NO HEART
CHAPTER XIV. THE TALE HAD TO BE TOLD
CHAPTER XV. AND MANY MUST BE QUESTIONED
CHAPTER XVI. AND THE PUPPETS DANCED
CHAPTER XVII. AND WHAT OF THE SECRET?
CHAPTER XVIII. IT WOULD NOT DO, YOU KNOW
CHAPTER XIX. NOT ALL ABOUT IT
CHAPTER XX. AND THAT'S THE TRUTH
CHAPTER XXI. HAVE ANOTHER CIGAR
CHAPTER XXII. THEN THE MIRACLE WAS WROUGHT
CHAPTER XXIII. WHY ALL THIS MYSTERY?
CHAPTER XXIV. A HERD OF CACKLING GEESE
CHAPTER XXV. THE FOG WAS DENSE, I COULDN'T RIGHTLY SEE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE NEXT WITNESS PLEASE
CHAPTER XXVII. AND PEOPLE WENT OUT TO LUNCHEON
CHAPTER XXVIII. WHICH TELLS OF AN UNEXPECTED TURN OF EVENTS
CHAPTER XXIX. THE WORLD IS SO LARGE
CHAPTER XXX. AND THEN EVERY ONE WENT HOME
CHAPTER XXXI. AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT CARE
CHAPTER XXXII. A MAN MUST ACT AS HE THINKS BEST
CHAPTER XXXIII. IF YOU WOULD ONLY LET YOURSELF GO
CHAPTER XXXIV. WHICH SPEAKS ONLY OF FAREWELLS
CHAPTER XXXV. WHICH TELLS OF PICTURES IN THE FIRE
CHAPTER XXXVI. PEOPLE DON'T DO THAT SORT OF THING
CHAPTER XXXVII. IT IS ONE HUMAN LIFE AGAINST THE OTHER
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE HAND OF DEATH WAS ON HIM TOO
CHAPTER XXXIX. A MERE WOMAN FIGHTING FOR THE THING SHE LOVED
CHAPTER XL. AND THUS HER HOUR HAD COME
CHAPTER XLI. WHICH TELLS OF THE CONTENTS OF THE NOTE BOOK
CHAPTER XLII. WHICH TELLS ONCE MORE OF COMMONPLACE INCIDENTS
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You don't suppose for a moment, I hope, that a girl like Louisa would allow her mind to dwell on such horrors. Mysterious crimes in strange cities – and in London, too, for a matter of that – are, alas! of far too frequent occurrence to be quite as startling as they should be.
A day or two later, Louisa Harris and her aunt, Lady Ryder, crossed over to England. They had spent five weeks in Italy and one in Brussels, not with a view to dreaming over the beauties of the Italian Lakes, or over the art treasures collected in the museums of Brussels, but because Lady Ryder had had a bronchial catarrh which she could not shake off and so her doctor had ordered her a thorough change. Bellaggio was selected, and Louisa accompanied her. They stayed at the best hotels both in Bellaggio and in Brussels, where Lady Ryder had several friends whom she wished to visit before she went home.
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"Twenty-four years ago," said Louisa thoughtfully, "and he only claims kinship with Lord Radclyffe now?"
"That's just," rejoined Luke, "where the curious part of the story comes in. This Philip de Mountford – I don't know how else to call him – said in his first letter that his mother never knew that Mr. Arthur de Mountford was anything more than a private English gentleman travelling either for profit or pleasure, but in any case not possessed of either wealth or social position. Between you and me, dear, I suppose that this Adeline Petit was just a half-caste girl, without much knowledge of what goes on in the world, and why she should have married Uncle Arthur I can't think."
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