The Tiger Lily
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Оглавление
Fenn George Manville. The Tiger Lily
Chapter One. Modern Skill
Chapter Two. The Certain Person
Chapter Three. A Fair Client
Chapter Four. An Unexpected Scene
Chapter Five. Lady Grayson’s Purse
Chapter Six. What Pacey Saw in the Clouds
Chapter Seven. The Scented Note
Chapter Eight. In the Scales
Chapter Nine. The Model
Chapter Ten. There is Only One Way
Chapter Eleven. Jaggs Makes a Discovery
Chapter Twelve. The New Model
Chapter Thirteen. A Strange Sitting
Chapter Fourteen. Life’s Fever
Chapter Fifteen. After the Lapse
Chapter Sixteen. Job Pacey at Home
Chapter Seventeen. Another’s Love
Chapter Eighteen. Gage of Battle
Chapter Nineteen. Check
Chapter Twenty. The Contretemps
Chapter Twenty One. The Ruse
Chapter Twenty Two. A Last Effort
Chapter Twenty Three. Too Late
Chapter Twenty Four. The Awakening
Chapter Twenty Five. The Second Second
Chapter Twenty Six. The News Spreads
Chapter Twenty Seven. A Potent Drug
Chapter Twenty Eight. Two Women’s Love
Chapter Twenty Nine. Husband and Wife
Chapter Thirty. The Last
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A long-drawn sigh of content, which made Cornelia Thorpe emerge from her chair behind the bed-curtains, and bend over to lay her soft white hand upon the patient’s forehead, but only for it to be taken and held to his lips.
“Well, angel?” he said quietly.
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Cornel winced, and her eyes dilated as these words stung her; but the pang was momentary, and she laughed in the full tide of her happy trust in the man she loved.
“You mark my words, Cornel,” said the old man; “that fellow will throw you over, and then that will set your monkey up, and you’ll come and ask me to marry you, and I will. The folks ’ll all laugh, but let ’em. We shall be all right, little one. I shall have a sweet little nurse and housekeeper to take care of me to the end, and you’ll have an ugly, cantankerous old husband, who won’t live very long, and will die and leave you a million dollars, so that you can laugh at the whole world, and be the prettiest little widow in Boston – bah! in the whole States – and with too much good sense to throw yourself away. – Who’s that?”
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