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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