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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