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L. G. Moberly. Christina
Christina
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
"THE LITTLE PRACTICAL JOKE."
CHAPTER II
"MUMMY'S BABA—DAT'S ALL."
CHAPTER III
"ONE OF THE BEST THINGS LEFT."
CHAPTER IV
"I SUPPOSE IT WAS AN HOUR."
CHAPTER V
"I KNOW THIS IS WORTH A LOT OF MONEY."
CHAPTER VI
"BABA LOVES YOU VERY MUCH."
CHAPTER VII
"A VERY BEAUTIFUL PENDANT, WITH THE INITIALS 'A.V.C.'"
CHAPTER VIII
"IT IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH."
CHAPTER IX
"A VERY BEAUTIFUL LADY."
CHAPTER X
"IT IS ONLY HE WHO MATTERS!"
CHAPTER XI
"YOU CAN TRUST DR. FERGUSSON."
CHAPTER XII
"YOU ARE JUST 'ZACKLY LIKE THE PRINCE."
CHAPTER XIII
"YOU HAVE BEEN A FRIEND TO ME TO-DAY."
CHAPTER XIV
"I AM QUITE SURE YOU NEED NOT BE AFRAID."
CHAPTER XV
"I DO TRUST, CICELY, YOU KEEP HER IN HER PLACE."
CHAPTER XVI
"MY MOTHER GAVE IT TO ME."
CHAPTER XVII
"WHO DO YOU MEAN BY SIR ARTHUR?"
CHAPTER XVIII
"YOU ARE MY OWN SISTER'S CHILD."
CHAPTER XIX
"PER INCERTAS, CERTA AMOR."
CHAPTER XX
"SHE HAS A SWEET, STRONG SOUL."
CHAPTER XXI
"IF YOU GO ACROSS THE SEA!"
CHAPTER XXII
"I CAME TO-DAY, TO TELL YOU SO."
CHAPTER XXIII
"THE KING OF MY KINGDOM."
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L. G. Moberly
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Courtfield noiselessly left the room, but his master's coffee remained in the pot, and his breakfast untasted, whilst he sat and stared with a petrified stare at the pile of unopened letters, with their extraordinarily unfamiliar address. A dusky flush mounted to his forehead, and he turned over one of the letters distastefully, as though its very touch were odious to him.
"I am not in the habit of being addressed by initials only," he muttered, "nor of corresponding through newspapers; the wretched things are probably not meant for me at all—unless it's some confounded hoax," he added, after a pause, at the same moment tearing open the top letter of the pile, one addressed in an untidy, uneducated handwriting.
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