In a Glass Darkly. Volume 2/3

In a Glass Darkly. Volume 2/3
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Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan. In a Glass Darkly. Volume 2/3

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER I. ON THE ROAD

CHAPTER II. THE INN-YARD OF THE BELLE ETOILE

CHAPTER III. DEATH AND LOVE TOGETHER MATED

CHAPTER IV. MONSIEUR DROQVILLE

CHAPTER V. SUPPER AT THE BELLE ETOILE

CHAPTER VI. THE NAKED SWORD

CHAPTER VII. THE WHITE ROSE

CHAPTER VIII. A THREE MINUTES' VISIT

CHAPTER IX. GOSSIP AND COUNSEL

CHAPTER X. THE BLACK VEIL

CHAPTER XI. THE DRAGON VOLANT

CHAPTER XII. THE MAGICIAN

CHAPTER XIII. THE ORACLE TELLS ME WONDERS

CHAPTER XIV. MADEMOISELLE DE LA VALLIÈRE

CHAPTER XV. STRANGE STORY OF THE DRAGON VOLANT

CHAPTER XVI. THE PARC OF THE CHATEAU DE LA CARQUE

CHAPTER XVII. THE TENANT OF THE PALANQUIN

CHAPTER XVIII. THE CHURCH-YARD

CHAPTER XIX. THE KEY

CHAPTER XX. A HIGH-CAULD CAP

CHAPTER XXI. I SEE THREE MEN IN A MIRROR

CHAPTER XXII. RAPTURE

CHAPTER XXIII. A CUP OF COFFEE

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In the eventful year, 1815, I was exactly three-and-twenty, and had just succeeded to a very large sum in consols, and other securities. The first fall of Napoleon had thrown the continent open to English excursionists, anxious, let us suppose, to improve their minds by foreign travel; and I – the slight check of the 'hundred days' removed, by the genius of Wellington, on the field of Waterloo – was now added to the philosophic throng.

I was posting up to Paris from Bruxelles, following, I presume, the route that the allied army had pursued but a few weeks before – more carriages than you could believe were pursuing the same line. You could not look back or forward, without seeing into far perspective the clouds of dust which marked the line of the long series of vehicles. We were, perpetually, passing relays of return-horses, on their way, jaded and dusty, to the inns from which they had been taken. They were arduous times for those patient public servants. The whole world seemed posting up to Paris.

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The servant looked at me, for a moment, as he placed the little key in his pocket, and said with a slightly sarcastic bow and smile, "Monsieur is at liberty to conjecture."

Nothing daunted, I forthwith administered that laxative which, on occasion, acts so happily upon the tongue – I mean a "tip."

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