Sir Hilton's Sin
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Fenn George Manville. Sir Hilton's Sin
Chapter One. Auntie and her Darling
Chapter Two. A Most Trustworthy Person
Chapter Three. Four People’s Skeletons
Chapter Four. The Tempter’s Call
Chapter Five. A Lamentable Case
Chapter Six. The Lady in the Case
Chapter Seven. A Diabolical Business
Chapter Eight. The Other Woman in the Case
Chapter Nine. Syd Plays Trumps – and Wins
Chapter Ten. How Jane Listened and Told
Chapter Eleven. Busy Times at Tilborough
Chapter Twelve. The Floating Cloud
Chapter Thirteen “My Daughter and my Son-in-Law.”
Chapter Fourteen. The Trainer’s Tips
Chapter Fifteen. Mephistopheles at Work
Chapter Sixteen. Rather Equivocal
Chapter Seventeen. La Sylphide’s Health
Chapter Eighteen. How the Bees Swarmed
Chapter Nineteen. While Time was on the Wing
Chapter Twenty. Where the Moonbeams Played
Chapter Twenty One. The Coming Home
Chapter Twenty Two. In the Fog
Chapter Twenty Three. Further In
Chapter Twenty Four. The Tout’s Final
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“Ah, good-morning, Mr Trimmer,” said Lady Lisle. “Don’t go, Sydney, my dear. It is as well that you should be present. You cannot do better than begin to learn the duties of a person of position – the connection between the owner of property and his, or her, dependants.”
“All right, auntie,” said Syd, returning, with a quick nod and a keen look, the obsequious bow of the gaunt-looking man in white cravat and pepper-and-salt garb.
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“‘We understand that Mr Watcombe, the well-known London brewer – ’” Her ladyship stopped and frowned.
“Yes, auntie; I hear,” cried the boy – “brewer – ?”
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