The Quest: A Romance
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Forman Justus Miles. The Quest: A Romance
CHAPTER I. STE. MARIE HEARS OF A MYSTERY AND MEETS A DARK LADY
CHAPTER II. THE LADDER TO THE STARS
CHAPTER III. STE. MARIE MAKES A VOW, BUT A PAIR OF EYES HAUNT HIM
CHAPTER IV. OLD DAVID STEWART
CHAPTER V. STE. MARIE SETS FORTH UPON THE GREAT ADVENTURE
CHAPTER VI. A BRAVE GENTLEMAN RECEIVES A HURT BUTVOLUNTEERS IN A GOOD CAUSE
CHAPTER VII. CAPTAIN STEWART MAKES A KINDLY OFFER
CHAPTER VIII. STE. MARIE MEETS WITH A MISADVENTURE AND DREAMS A DREAM
CHAPTER IX. STE. MARIE GOES UPON A JOURNEY ANDRICHARD HARTLEY PLEADS FOR HIM
CHAPTER X. CAPTAIN STEWART ENTERTAINS
CHAPTER XI. A GOLDEN LADY ENTERS: THE EYES AGAIN
CHAPTER XII. THE NAME OF THE LADY WITH THE EYES: EVIDENCE HEAPS UP SWIFTLY
CHAPTER XIII. THE ROAD TO CLAMART
CHAPTER XIV. IN THE GARDEN
CHAPTER XV. A CONVERSATION AT LA LIERRE
CHAPTER XVI. THE BLACK CAT
CHAPTER XVII. THOSE WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND
CHAPTER XVIII. A CONVERSATION OVERHEARD
CHAPTER XIX. THE INVALID TAKES THE AIR
CHAPTER XX. THE STONE BENCH AT THE ROND POINT
CHAPTER XXI. A MIST DIMS THE SHINING STAR
CHAPTER XXII. A SETTLEMENT REFUSED
CHAPTER XXIII. THE LAST ARROW – AND A PROMISE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE JOINT IN THE ARMOUR
CHAPTER XXV. COIRA GOES OVER TO THE ENEMY
CHAPTER XXVI "I WON'T GO!"
CHAPTER XXVII. THE NIGHT'S WORK
CHAPTER XXVIII. COIRA'S LITTLE HOUR
CHAPTER XXIX. THE SCALES OF INJUSTICE
CHAPTER XXX. JOURNEY'S END
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Miss Benham was talking wearily to a strange fair youth with an impediment in his speech, and was wondering why the youth had been asked to this house, where in general one was sure of meeting only interesting people, when some one spoke her name, and she turned with a little sigh of relief. It was Baron de Vries, the Belgian First Secretary of Legation, an old friend of her grandfather's, a man made gentle and sweet by infinite sorrow. He bowed civilly to the fair youth and bent over the girl's hand.
"It is very good," he said, "to see you again in the world. We have need of you, nous autres. Madame your mother is well, I hope – and the bear?" He called old Mr. Stewart "the bear" in a sort of grave jest, and that fierce octogenarian rather liked it.
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He did ask Hartley later on and Hartley didn't know either. Miss Benham asked some other people, who were vague about it, and in the end she became convinced that it was an odd and quite inexplicable form of something like endearment. But nobody seemed to have formulated it to himself.
"The name is really 'de Ste. Marie'," he went on, "and there's a title that I don't use, and a string of Christian names that one employs. My people were Bearnais, and there's a heap of ruins on top of a hill in the Pyrenees where they lived. It used to be Ste. Marie de Mont-les-Roses, but afterwards, after the Revolution, they called it Ste. Marie de Mont Perdu. My great-grandfather was killed there, but some old servants smuggled his little son away and saved him."
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