Leonore Stubbs

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Lucy Bethia Walford. Leonore Stubbs

CHAPTER I "SHE HAS NO SETTLEMENT, DAMN IT."

CHAPTER II. ON THE STATION PLATFORM

CHAPTER III. SPECULATIONS

CHAPTER IV. A DULL BREAKFAST-TABLE

CHAPTER V. OLD PLAYMATES MEET

CHAPTER VI. A REVELATION

CHAPTER VII "I HAVE LOST SOMETHING THAT I NEVER HAD."

CHAPTER VIII. A CAT AND MOUSE GAME

CHAPTER IX "I'D LIKE TO HAVE THINGS ON A SOUNDER BASIS."

CHAPTER X. THE THIRD CASE

CHAPTER XI. DR. CRAIG'S WISDOM

CHAPTER XII. THE PHOTOGRAPH AND THE ORIGINAL

CHAPTER XIII "I AM TO GIVE YOU A WIDE BERTH, ALWAYS."

CHAPTER XIV. PAUL GOES—AND RETURNS

CHAPTER XV "YOU'VE BROKEN MY HEART, I THINK."

CHAPTER XVI. TEMPTATION

CHAPTER XVII. A KNIGHT TO THE RESCUE

CHAPTER XVIII "A TURN OF THE WHEEL."

CHAPTER XIX. EPILOGUE

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"Is that the widow?"

A couple of common-looking men with their hats and greatcoats on, were standing, notebooks in hand, in the centre of a handsomely appointed room, and the eye of experience would have seen at once what they were doing there. They were taking an inventory of the furniture.

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Every one had been told beforehand what took the general to the station on the occasion.

In the interval which had elapsed between the present moment and his reluctant tender of the shelter of his hearth towards his unfortunate daughter, he had had time to think. Since he must have her and there was no help for it, he would brave out the situation. His neighbours were not in the least likely to have heard anything of Godfrey Stubbs' affairs, which had never got into the papers and which he himself only knew of by personal communication. They could still be made to believe in the wealth of his late son-in-law; and by his continued deference towards Godfrey's memory and Godfrey's widow, he would still be envied and applauded for the match whose advantages he had so assiduously vaunted. It would be intolerable to have the truth known, wherefore the truth should not be known.

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