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Fergus Hume. The White Prior
The White Prior
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Tutor
Chapter 2 First Impressions
Chapter 3 Tresham’s Diary—Suspicion
Chapter 4 The Pupils
Chapter 5 Monkish Tales
Chapter 6 Tresham’s Diary—A Midnight Episode
Chapter 7 An Interesting Conversation
Chapter 8 A Round of Pleasure
Chapter 9 Exit Mr. Harley
Chapter 10 Tresham’s Diary—The White Prior
Chapter 11 A Terrible Discovery
Chapter 12 Fate
Chapter 13 Gilbert is Dismissed
Chapter 14 Amateur Detectives
Chapter 15 The Revelations of Miss Carr
Chapter 16 Tresham’s Diary—The Lovers
Chapter 17 Strange News
Chapter 18 In the Crypt
Chapter 19 The Truth
Chapter 20 Tresham’s Diary—Wedding Bells
THE END
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Fergus Hume
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The lad put out a thin hand and weakly pressed that extended to him by Gilbert. He was by no means shy, nor was he on the other hand forward: his listless nature seemed incapable of asserting itself either way. He simply greeted his tutor with languid indifference, and afterwards returned to the end of the library, where he buried himself in a big book. There was something painful in the lifelessness of so young a child.
“You must change all that,” said Harley, indicating his son’s occupation; “the lad is killing himself through his brains.”
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