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H. Rider Haggard. Beatrice
Beatrice
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
A MIST WRAITH
CHAPTER II
AT THE BELL ROCK
CHAPTER III
A CONFESSION OF FAITH
CHAPTER IV
THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR
CHAPTER V
ELIZABETH IS THANKFUL
CHAPTER VI
OWEN DAVIES AT HOME
CHAPTER VII
A MATRIMONIAL TALE
CHAPTER VIII
EXPLANATORY
CHAPTER IX
WHAT BEATRICE DREAMED
CHAPTER X
LADY HONORIA MAKES ARRANGEMENTS
CHAPTER XI
BEATRICE MAKES AN APPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XII
THE WRITING ON THE SAND
CHAPTER XIII
GEOFFREY LECTURES
CHAPTER XIV
DRIFTING
CHAPTER XV
ONLY GOOD-NIGHT
CHAPTER XVI
THE FLAT NEAR THE EDGWARE ROAD
CHAPTER XVII
GEOFFREY WINS HIS CASE
CHAPTER XVIII
THE RISING STAR
CHAPTER XIX
GEOFFREY HAS A VISITOR
CHAPTER XX
BACK AT BRYNGELLY
CHAPTER XXI
THE THIRD APPEAL
CHAPTER XXII
A NIGHT OF STORM
CHAPTER XXIII
A DAWN OF RAIN
CHAPTER XXIV
LADY HONORIA TAKES THE FIELD
CHAPTER XXV
ELIZABETH SHOWS HER TEETH
CHAPTER XXVI
WHAT BEATRICE SWORE
CHAPTER XXVII
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
CHAPTER XXVIII
I WILL WAIT FOR YOU
CHAPTER XXIX
A WOMAN’S LAST WORD
CHAPTER XXX
AVE ATQUE VALE
CHAPTER XXXI
THE DUCHESS’S BALL
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H. Rider Haggard
Published by Good Press, 2021
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He obeyed her, and they neither of them spoke any more for some time. Indeed the rising wind made conversation difficult, and so far as Geoffrey was concerned he had little breath left to spare for words. He was a strong man, but the unaccustomed labour was beginning to tell on him, and his hands were blistering. For ten minutes or so he paddled on through a darkness which was now almost total, wondering where on earth he was wending, for it was quite impossible to see. For all he knew to the contrary, he might be circling round and round. He had only one thing to direct him, the sweep of the continually rising wind and the wash of the gathering waves. So long as these struck the canoe, which now began to roll ominously, on the starboard side, he must, he thought, be keeping a right course. But in the turmoil of the rising gale and the confusion of the night, this was no very satisfactory guide. At length, however, a broad and brilliant flash sprung out across the sea, almost straight ahead of him. It was the Poise light.
He altered his course a little and paddled steadily on. And now the squall was breaking. Fortunately, it was not a very heavy one, or their frail craft must have sunk and they with it. But it was quite serious enough to put them in great danger. The canoe rose to the waves like a feather, but she was broadside on, and rise as she would they began to ship a little water. And they had not seen the worst of it. The weather was still thickening.
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