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Lucia Chamberlain. The Coast of Chance
The Coast of Chance
Table of Contents
THE VANISHING MYSTERY
Yes, he was magnificent, she thought
II
A NAME GOES ROUND A TABLE
III
ENCOUNTERS ON PARADE
IV
FLOWERS BY THE WAY
He took the lilies up daintily, and returned to her
V
ON GUARD
VI
BLACK MAGIC
VII
A SPELL IS CAST
VIII
A SPARK OF HORROR
IX
ILLUMINATION
X
A LADY UNVEILED
XI
THE MYSTERY TAKES HUMAN FORM
XII
DISENCHANTMENT
XIII
THRUST AND PARRY
XIV
COMEDY CONVEYS A WARNING
XV
A LADY IN DISTRESS
"Forgive me, I followed you."
XVI
THE HEART OF THE DILEMMA
XVII
THE DEMIGOD
XVIII
GOBLIN TACTICS
XIX
THE FACE IN THE GARDEN
XX
FLIGHT
XXI
THE HOUSE OF QUIET
XXII
CLARA'S MARKET
XXIII
TOUCHE
XXIV
THE COMIC MASK
XXV
THE LAST ENCHANTMENT
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Esther Chamberlain, Lucia Chamberlain
Published by Good Press, 2019
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She herself was but three years old in San Francisco, and to her new eyes Harry had seemed an old resident thoroughly established. So firmly established was he in his bachelor quarters, in his clubs, in the demands made upon him by the city's society, that it had never occurred to her he had ever lived anywhere else. Nor had he happened to mention anything of his previous life until to-night, when he had given her, in that mention of a London ball, one flashing glimpse of former experiences.
Fatherless, motherless, alone upon the pinnacle of her fortune, she had known that such an extraordinary entrance, even at this rather wide social portal, would only be acceptable if toned down, glossed over, and drawn out by a personality sufficiently neutral, sufficiently potent, and sufficiently in need of what she had to give. The successive flickers of the gas-lamps through the carriage window made of Clara's profile so hard and fine a little medallion that it was impossible to conceive it in need of anything. And yet it was just their mutual need that had drawn these two women together, and after three years it was still the only thing that held them. As much of a fight as she had put up with the rest—the people who had taken her in—she had put up the hardest with Clara. Yet of them all Clara was the only one she had failed to capture. Clara was always there in the middle of her affairs, but surveying them from a distance, and Flora's struggle with her had resolved itself into the attempt to keep her from seeing too much, from seeing more than she herself saw. Clara's seeing, thus far, had always been to help, but Flora sometimes wondered whether in an emergency this help could be depended on—whether Clara could give anything without exacting a price.
