Fordham's Feud
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Mitford Bertram. Fordham's Feud
Chapter One. At First Sight
Chapter Two. Two Unlikes
Chapter Three. Breaking the Ice
Chapter Four. Alma
Chapter Five. Fordham Philosophises
Chapter Six. The Fire of the Live Coal
Chapter Seven. The Storm on the Lake
Chapter Eight. An Inopportune Reminder
Chapter Nine “Best to be off with the Old Love, Before…”
Chapter Ten. On the Cape au Moine
Chapter Eleven. Peril
Chapter Twelve. Light
Chapter Thirteen. Shadow
Chapter Fourteen. Fordham Proves Accommodating
Chapter Fifteen. In the Val d’Anniviers
Chapter Sixteen “All in the Blue Unclouded Weather.”
Chapter Seventeen. The Writing on the Wall
Chapter Eighteen. Two Heads Better Than One
Chapter Nineteen. Fighting the Devil with Fire
Chapter Twenty. On The Summit
Chapter Twenty One. The Falling Stone
Chapter Twenty Two. A Weapon to Hand
Chapter Twenty Three. Forging the Link
Chapter Twenty Four. Sir Francis Orlebar
Chapter Twenty Five. Taken at the Rebound
Chapter Twenty Six. One Nail Drives Out Another
Chapter Twenty Seven. The Droop of a Sunshade
Chapter Twenty Eight ”…For His House an Irredeemable Woe.”
Chapter Twenty Nine “The Sins of the Fathers.”
Chapter Thirty. After Fordham’s Visit
Chapter Thirty One. What was Revealed
Chapter Thirty Two “That Sting Each Other Here in the Dust.”
Chapter Thirty Three “For a Brother’s Blood.”
Chapter Thirty Four. At the End of his Life
Chapter Thirty Five. A Day Too Late
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In his eulogy of the beauties of that fairy glen, the Gorge du Chauderon, Fordham was not exaggerating one whit; and while our two friends are pursuing their way along its winding path, under the cool shelter of a wealth of luxuriant greenery meeting overhead, and the roar and rush of the mountain stream leaping through a succession of black, rock-girt caldrons in their ears, we will take the opportunity of improving their acquaintance.
He was the only son of a baronet, who doted on him. But his expectations were not great, for Sir Francis Orlebar, who had been a widower since a year or two after Philip’s birth, had recently endowed himself with a second wife, and taking this with the fact that his income did not exceed by a shilling 2,000 pounds per annum, it follows that a superfluity of spare cash was never a distinguishing feature in the Orlebar household.
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“Oh, dear no. Perfectly safe, they tell me,” answered the old gentleman. “I daresay, though, it’s rather a trying affair for you ladies, finding yourselves let straight down the steep side of a mountain in a thing for all the world like a bucket in a well.”
“But don’t you think it may one of these days come to grief?” pursued the Infliction.
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