The Sapphire Cross

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Fenn George Manville. The Sapphire Cross

In the Old Fen-Land

Under the Shadow

A Glance at the Substance

The Happy Pair

Too Late

Amidst the Pines

Balm

What Followed

Ada’s Promise

Sir Murray’s Gentleman

Husbands and Wives

Food for Suspicion

Brooding

Man and Maid

The Sapphire Cross

An Encounter

Jane’s Heart

Beneath the Shadow

Not Yet

Sir Murray’s Library

The Gentle Passion

Jane’s Lovers – Number 1

A False Step

Rescue

Sir Murray’s Thoughts

Nocturnal

The Burglary

A Rival Embrace

The Helping Hand

Gurdon’s Lot

Under Orders

What Sandy did not See

Jane’s Suspicions

Not at Home

A Storm at Merland

Jane Declares

Sir Murray Declares

Changes at Hand

Mr Chunt’s Toast

After Twenty Years

The Wreck Ashore

Another Encounter

Dread

On the Bygone

Right Honourable

In Peril

Rescue

How Doctors Rule

Mother and Son

A Discovery

Rivalry

“One-Two!”

Magnanimity

McCray Scents Mischief

The Meeting

Tangled

Lover and Father

Against Hope

A Visitor to his Lordship

A Night’s Adventure

“That’s it at Last.”

The Cross

The Doctor’s Answer

Crushed Down

Why Isa Gernon Avoided Brace

With Trouble Looming

Preparations

“They’re Bringing My Lady Hame.”

At Last

At One

After a Lapse

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Ada Lee was right: there was a good deal of the Spanish grandee in the aspect of Sir Murray Gernon, who traced back his pedigree to the old Norman days, when, as a recompense for the service of the stout knight, Sir Piers Gernon, his squire, and so many men-at-arms, William gave him the pleasant lands whereon he built his castle, overlooking many an acre of Lincolnshire fen-land – a castle that gave place, in Tudor days, to the fine, square, massive, and roomy building, which still retained the name as well as the broad moat. Sir Murray entered the rectory drawing-room, tall, swarthy, and haughty of bearing, and was chatting graciously to the parents of his intended bride, when she entered the apartment.

To a careless observer the morning’s sadness had all departed, and courtly lover could not have been better satisfied with his greeting as Marion crossed the room to meet him, placing both her hands in his, and looking up in his proud face as much as to say, “I am soon to be yours – be gentle with me.”

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“Nay, not often,” said the other. “But it’s open house up there to-day, and there’s to be fine doings after the squire’s gone with his lady.”

“Where are they going, lad?”

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