The Spider and the Fly
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Garvice Charles. The Spider and the Fly
CHAPTER I. A SWIM FOR LIFE
CHAPTER II. THE WOLF AND THE LAMB
CHAPTER III. THE RETURNED CAPTIVE
CHAPTER IV. STRANGE TACKLE
CHAPTER V. IN DIFFICULTIES
CHAPTER VI "LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG."
CHAPTER VII. IMPRESSIONS
CHAPTER VIII. SYMPATHY OR ANTIPATHY?
CHAPTER IX. THE PATH OF THE GHOST
CHAPTER X. A DISQUIETING RUMOR
CHAPTER XI. THE LITTLE OLD MAN
CHAPTER XII. UNDER THE EVIL EYE
CHAPTER XIII "WHEN ROGUES LIE AWAKE."
CHAPTER XIV. A SUMMER STORM
CHAPTER XV. THE SERPENT'S STING
CHAPTER XVI. THE PART OF A FLIRT
CHAPTER XVII. THE LOCKET
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SMUGGLERS
CHAPTER XIX. A BITTER PARTING
CHAPTER XX. LURED TO HIS DOOM
CHAPTER XXI. WILLFUL MURDER
CHAPTER XXII. THE FADED PARCHMENT
CHAPTER XXIII. THE EARL'S SECRET
CHAPTER XXIV. A TRYING INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XXV "MAN OVERBOARD."
CHAPTER XXVI. A PARDONABLE TREACHERY
CHAPTER XXVII. IN THE WEB
CHAPTER XXVIII. AN EX-CONVICT'S STORY
CHAPTER XXIX. THE COMING WEDDING
CHAPTER XXX. UNDER ARREST
CHAPTER XXXI. CLOSING IN
CHAPTER XXXII. THE PLOT FAILS
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In the drawing-room at Mildmay Park was seated, in her own particular easy-chair, Mrs. Henry Mildmay.
Mrs. Henry Mildmay was a lady of that good old sort of whom our modern demoiselles are rather tired of receiving as models for imitation. Herself ladylike and distingué in feature, dress and manner, slight of figure, delicate of hand and more delicate of nerve, she was deeply imbued with a love of good birth, elegant manners and a large income, all of which she possessed in a fair and comfortable degree.
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Violet, looking down after him until his bare head had dropped slowly out of sight, then said, audibly:
"Well, that is pride now; but it is proper pride, I think," smiled rather sadly, and returned homeward.
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