Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II.
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Lever Charles James. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II.
CHAPTER I. A LEVANTER
CHAPTER II. BY THE MINE AT LA VANNA
CHAPTER III. UP AT THE MINE
CHAPTER IV. PARTING COUNSELS
CHAPTER V. ON THE ISLAND
CHAPTER VI. HOW CHANGED
CHAPTER VII. HOW TO MEET A SCANDAL
CHAPTER VIII. TWO MEN WELL MET
CHAPTER IX. A SURPRISE
CHAPTER X. THE CHIEF AND HIS FRIEND
CHAPTER XI. A LEAP IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XII. SOME OF SEWELL’S OPINIONS
CHAPTER XIII. THE VISIT TO THE JAIL
CHAPTER XIV. A GRAND DINNER AT THE PRIORY
CHAPTER XV. CHIEF SECRETARY BALFOUR
CHAPTER XVI. A STARLIT NIGHT
CHAPTER XVII. AN UNGRACIOUS ADIEU
CHAPTER XVIII. A PLEASANT MEETING
CHAPTER XIX. MAN TO MAN
CHAPTER XX. ON THE DOOR-STEPS AT NIGHT
CHAPTER XXI. GOING OUT
CHAPTER XXII. AT HOWTH
CHAPTER XXIII. TO REPORT
CHAPTER XXIV. A MOMENT OF CONFIDENCE
CHAPTER XXV. THE TELEGRAM
CHAPTER XXVI. A FAMILY PARTY
CHAPTER XXVII. PROJECTS
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE END OF ALL
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The mine of Lavanna, on which Sir Brook had placed all his hopes of future fortune, was distant from the town of Cagliari about eighteen miles. It was an old, a very old shaft; Livy had mentioned it, and Pliny, in one of his letters, compares people of sanguine and hopeful temperament with men who believe in the silver ore of Lavanna. There had therefore been a traditionary character of failure attached to the spot, and not impossibly this very circumstance had given it a greater value in Fossbrooke’s estimation; for he loved a tough contest with fortune, and his experiences had given him many such.
Popular opinion certainly set down the mine as a disastrous enterprise, and the list of those who had been ruined by the speculation was a long one. Nothing daunted by all he had heard, and fully convinced in his own mind that his predecessors had earned their failures by their own mistakes, Fossbrooke had purchased the property many years before, and there it had remained, like many of his other acquisitions, uncared for and unthought of, till the sudden idea had struck him that he wanted to be rich, and to be rich instantaneously.
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“I ‘m not sure. I mean, he might have some reserve on one point, and that is the very point on which his candor would be most important. There have been letters, it would seem, that Sewell has got hold of, and threatens exposure, if some enormous demand be not complied with.”
“What! Is the scoundrel so devoid of devices that he has to go back on an old exploded villany? Why, he played that game at Rangoon, and got five thousand pounds out of poor Beresford.”
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