Hester. Volume 3 of 3

Hester. Volume 3 of 3
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Oliphant Margaret. Hester. Volume 3 of 3

CHAPTER I. BUSINESS AND LOVE

CHAPTER II. A SPECULATOR

CHAPTER III. A LATE VISITOR

CHAPTER IV. DOUBTS AND FEARS

CHAPTER V. A DISCOVERY

CHAPTER VI. IN THE LABYRINTH

CHAPTER VII. ALARMS

CHAPTER VIII. THE CRISIS

CHAPTER IX. UNDER THE HOLLY

CHAPTER X. THE HOUR OF NEED

CHAPTER XI. A NIGHT'S VIGIL

CHAPTER XII. AFTERWARDS

CHAPTER XIII. AN INTERRUPTION

CHAPTER XIV. THE SETTLEMENT

CHAPTER XV. THE END

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Roland had but a few days to spend at Redborough, where he came on the footing of an intimate friend and relation, sought and courted on all hands. His time was already portioned out among the Vernons before he came to pay his respects to Mrs. John and her daughter, though that was on the morning after his arrival. At a still earlier hour Emma had rushed in very tearful and dejected to beg Hester to intercede for her that she might not go away.

"If I go now he may never speak at all," Emma said. "I am sure I did everything I could last night to bring it on. I told him Roland had come for me, that he couldn't do without me any longer; and if you could only have seen him, Hester! he grew quite white, poor fellow, and his eyes as big as saucers! I don't believe it is his fault. It must be his people; so often, when things are going just as you wish, their people will interfere. I am sure he is quite miserable. And if he doesn't speak now, I dare say he will never speak."

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"Why should he not be hot and eager?" cried Hester; "I understand that very well. Everything is quiet here. A man, when he gets out of this still atmosphere, wants a little excitement, and to fling himself into it."

"Ah!" said Mrs. John, "that is what your poor father always said."

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