Lover and Husband

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Mrs. Molesworth. Lover and Husband

Lover and Husband

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

ANTECEDENTS

CHAPTER II

ACROSS THE CHANNEL

CHAPTER III

BLUE SKIES

CHAPTER IV

A FRIEND IN NEED

CHAPTER V

AU LION D’OR

CHAPTER VI

FLORENCE

CHAPTER VII

THE LITTLE GOVERNESS

CHAPTER VIII

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

CHAPTER IX

“DE CAP A TU SOY MARION”

CHAPTER X

A SUDDEN RECALL

CHAPTER XI

THE LAST AFTERNOON ON THE TERRACE

CHAPTER I

AN EVENTFUL RAMBLE

CHAPTER II

MORE THAN HALF WAY

CHAPTER III

“FROM WANDERING ON A FOREIGN STRAND.”

CHAPTER IV

THE END OF SEPTEMBER

CHAPTER V

ORPHANED

CHAPTER VI

MALLINGFORD AND AUNT TREMLETT

CHAPTER VII

GREY DAYS

CHAPTER VIII

AND RALPH?

CHAPTER IX

RALPH (continued.)

CHAPTER X

THE BEGINNING OF THE END

CHAPTER XI

VERONICA’S COUNSEL

CHAPTER I

THE GARDEN AT THE “PEACOCK.”

CHAPTER II

THE BITTERNESS OF DEATH

CHAPTER III

THE END OF THE HONEYMOON

CHAPTER IV

“AT HOME.”

CHAPTER V

A WIFELY WELCOME

CHAPTER VI

A CRISIS

CHAPTER VII

A FRIEND IN DISGUISE

CHAPTER VIII

COTTON CHEZ SOI

CHAPTER IX

“GOOD-BYE AND A KISS.”

CHAPTER X

LITTLE MARY’S ADVENT

CHAPTER XI

MARION’S DREAM

CHAPTER XII

GEOFFREY’S WIDOW

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Mrs. Molesworth

A Novel

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“I had one or two introductions,” Mrs. Archer replied, “but I know no one personally, except old Major and Mrs. Berwick, who are residents there. They used to live at Clifton, and one of the daughters was at school with me. She can’t be very young now, for she was some years older than I.”

The country for some distance was fertile, and here and there, when one got rid of the poplars, even picturesque. But halfway to Altes on the last day, it altogether changed in character, becoming utterly waste and sterile. Now, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen on either side of the road, but long stretches of bleak, barren moorland. Hardly, indeed, correctly described by that word, for our northern moors have a decided, though peculiar, beauty of their own, wholly wanting in the great, dead-looking wastes of this part of France, known as “les landes.” To add to the gloomy effect of the scene, a close drizzling rain began to fall, and continued without the slightest break, the whole of that dreary afternoon.

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