A Rent In A Cloud
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Lever Charles James. A Rent In A Cloud
CHAPTER I. THE WHITE HORSE AT COBLENTZ
CHAPTER II. THE PASSENGERS ON THE STEAMBOAT
CHAPTER III. FELLOW-TRAVELLERS’ LIFE
CHAPTER IV. THE “LAGO D’ORTA.”
CHAPTER V. OLD MEMORIES
CHAPTER VI. SOPHY’S LETTER
CHAPTER VII. DISSENSION
CHAPTER VIII. GROWING DARKER
CHAPTER IX. ON THE ROAD
CHAPTER X. A DAYBREAK BESIDE THE RHINE
CHAPTER XI. THE LIFE AT THE VILLA
CHAPTER XII. DARKER AND DARKER
CHAPTER XIII. AGAIN TO MILAN
CHAPTER XIV. THE LAST WALK IN THE GARDEN
CHAPTER XV. SISTERS’ CONFIDENCES
CHAPTER XVI. A LOVERS’ QUARREL
CHAPTER XVII. PARTING SORROWS
CHAPTER XVIII. TIDINGS FROM BENGAL
CHAPTER XIX. A SHOCK
CHAPTER XX. AGAIN AT ORTA
CHAPTER XXI. THE RETURN
CHAPTER XXII. A LETTER OF CONFESSIONS
CHAPTER XXIII. A STORM
CHAPTER XXIV. THE LAST AND THE SHORTEST
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THE table d’hôte room was empty as the two Englishmen entered it at supper-time, and they took their places, moodily enough, at one end of a table laid for nigh thirty guests. “All gone to Lahnech, Franz?” asked Calvert of the waiter.
“Yes, Sir, but they’ll be sorry for it, for there’s thunder in the air, and we are sure to have a deluge before nightfall.”
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“Some of us come for health,” said Loyd, sorrowfully.
“And was there ever such a blunder? Why the very vicissitudes of a continental climate are more trying than any severity in our own. Imagine the room we are now sitting in, of a winter’s evening, with a stove heated to ninety-five, and the door opening every five minutes to a draught of air eleven degrees below zero! You pass out of this furnace to your bed-room, by a stair and corridor like the Arctic regions, to gain an uncarpeted room, with something like a knife-tray for a bed, and a poultice of feathers for a coverlet!”
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