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George Gissing. The Nether World
The Nether World
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A THRALL OF THRALLS
CHAPTER II. A FRIEND IN REQUEST
CHAPTER III. A SUPERFLUOUS FAMILY
CHAPTER IV. CLARA AND JANE
CHAPTER V. JANE IS VISITED
CHAPTER VI. GLIMPSES OF THE PAST
CHAPTER VII. MRS. BYASS'S LODGINGS
CHAPTER VIII. PENNYLOAF CANDY
CHAPTER IX. PATHOLOGICAL
CHAPTER X. THE LAST COMBAT
CHAPTER XI. A DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XII 'IO SATURNALIA!'
CHAPTER XIII. THE BRINGER OF ILL NEWS
CHAPTER XIV. A WELCOME GUEST
CHAPTER XV. SUNLIGHT IN DREARY PLACES
CHAPTER XVI. DIALOGUE AND COMMENT
CHAPTER XVII. CLEM MAKES A DISCLOSURE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE JOKE IS COMPLETED
CHAPTER XIX. A RETREAT
CHAPTER XX. A VISION OF NOBLE THINGS
CHAPTER XXI. DEATH THE RECONCILER
CHAPTER XXII. WATCHING FROM AMBUSH
CHAPTER XXIII. ON THE EVE OF TRIUMPH
CHAPTER XXIV. THE FAMILY HISTORY PROGRESSES
CHAPTER XXV. A DOUBLE CONSECRATION
CHAPTER XXVI. SIDNEY'S STRUGGLE
CHAPTER XXVII. CLARA'S RETURN
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SOUP-KITCHEN
CHAPTER XXIX. PHANTOMS
CHAPTER XXX. ON A BARREN SHORE
CHAPTER XXXI. WOMAN AND ACTRESS
CHAPTER XXXII. A HAVEN
CHAPTER XXXIII. A FALL FROM THE IDEAL
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE DEBT REPAID
CHAPTER XXXV. THE TREASURY UNLOCKED
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE HEIR
CHAPTER XXXVII. MAD JACK'S DREAM
CHAPTER XXXVIII. JOSEPH TRANSACTS MUCH BUSINESS
CHAPTER XXXIX. SIDNEY
CHAPTER XL. JANE
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George Gissing
Published by Good Press, 2021
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'Oh, you did? Well, look 'ere; you'll just remember in future that all you get from the lodgers belongs to me, an' not to mother. It's a new arrangement, understand. An' if you dare to give up a 'apenny to mother, I'll lick you till you're nothin' but a bag o' bones. Understand?'
Having on the spur of the moment devised this ingenious difficulty for the child, who was sure to suffer in many ways from such a conflict of authorities, Clem began to consider how she should spend her evening. After all, Jane was too poor-spirited a victim to afford long entertainment. Clem would have liked dealing with some one who showed fight—some one with whom she could try savage issue in real tooth-and-claw conflict. She had in mind a really exquisite piece of cruelty, but it was a joy necessarily postponed to a late hour of the night. In the meantime, it would perhaps be as well to take a stroll, with a view of meeting a few friends as they came away from the work-rooms. She was pondering the invention of some long and hard task to be executed by Jane in her absence, when a knocking at the house-door made itself heard. Clem at once went up to see who the visitor was.
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