A Woman's Burden: A Novel
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Hume Fergus. A Woman's Burden: A Novel
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I. A QUEER ADVENTURE
CHAPTER II. A STRANGE ARRANGEMENT
PART I
CHAPTER I. MRS. DACRE DARROW
CHAPTER II. A RED RAG TO A BULL
CHAPTER III. POVERTY HALL
CHAPTER IV. MR. BARTON'S VISITOR
CHAPTER V. BEHIND THE SCENES
CHAPTER VI. MRS. DARROW'S BOMBSHELL
CHAPTER VII. IN THE WOODS
CHAPTER VIII. SHORTY
CHAPTER IX. THE SHADOW
CHAPTER X. THE SQUIRE'S SECRET
CHAPTER XI. UNMASKED
CHAPTER XII. MIRIAM KEEPS AN APPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XIII. MRS. DARROW BECOMES REFRACTORY
CHAPTER XIV. ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT
CHAPTER XV. A NINE DAYS' WONDER
CHAPTER XVI. A LITTLE FEMININE DIPLOMACY
CHAPTER XVII. A ROMAN FATHER
CHAPTER XVIII. THE REWARD OF MIRIAM
PART II
CHAPTER I. 5A, ROSARY MANSIONS
CHAPTER II. JABEZ REDIVIVUS
CHAPTER III. MRS. PARSLEY'S PROTÉGÉ
CHAPTER IV. DICKY'S DISCOVERY
CHAPTER V. JUST IN TIME
CHAPTER VI. SOME MUTUAL COMPLIMENTS AND A CONFESSION
CHAPTER VII. MRS. DARROW SYMPATHISES
CHAPTER VIII. MRS. PARSLEY SEES A GHOST
CHAPTER IX. MORE TROUBLE
CHAPTER X. THE MAJOR'S POINT OF VIEW
CHAPTER XI. IN THE DEPTHS
CHAPTER XII. JABEZ SEEKS AN OLD FRIEND
CHAPTER XIII. THE END OF GERALD ARKEL
CHAPTER XIV. A QUEER STORY QUEERLY TOLD
EPILOGUE
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It was midnight – midnight on Waterloo Bridge. A plague was over the city – the concentrated vomit of a million and more chimneys wrapped all in an Egyptian darkness.
The miracle of Moses could not have produced a deeper gloom – an atmosphere more impenetrable. It clung to the skin, it even pressed against the eyeballs. It might in truth have been that very outer darkness which we are taught is reserved for those amongst us who are sinners.
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"Now don't you bother, ma. Leave the governess to me. If you talk you'll spoil all."
"All what?" cried Mrs. Marsh, frantic with curiosity.
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