The Finger of Fate: A Romance
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Reid Mayne. The Finger of Fate: A Romance
Chapter One. The Half-Brothers
Chapter Two. Doggy Dick
Chapter Three. The Archery Fête
Chapter Four. A Coquette
Chapter Five. Two Strings to the Bow
Chapter Six. The Gathering Cloud
Chapter Seven. Plotters for Fortune
Chapter Eight. Father and Son
Chapter Nine. The Checkmate
Chapter Ten. The Bait Taken
Chapter Eleven. Awaiting the Proposal
Chapter Twelve. Self-Exiled
Chapter Thirteen. London Thugs
Chapter Fourteen. Turned Artist
Chapter Fifteen. A Sketcher Surprised
Chapter Sixteen. Empty Pockets
Chapter Seventeen. An Unlucky Recognition
Chapter Eighteen. A Sympathiser
Chapter Nineteen. On the March
Chapter Twenty. Writing to Dictation
Chapter Twenty One. Under the Cedar
Chapter Twenty Two. A Queer Traveller
Chapter Twenty Three. Dissimulation
Chapter Twenty Four. A Strange Visitor
Chapter Twenty Five. An Uncourteous Reception
Chapter Twenty Six. An Unceremonious Dismissal
Chapter Twenty Seven. Brigand Domestic Life
Chapter Twenty Eight. Unpleasant Information
Chapter Twenty Nine. Painful Conjecturing
Chapter Thirty. Brigandage and its Cause
Chapter Thirty One. The Torreanis
Chapter Thirty Two. Captain Count Guardioli
Chapter Thirty Three. Improved Prison Fare
Chapter Thirty Four. Popetta
Chapter Thirty Five. Writing under Difficulties
Chapter Thirty Six. A Short Trial
Chapter Thirty Seven. A Tough Amputation
Chapter Thirty Eight. The Family Solicitor
Chapter Thirty Nine. The Call Book
Chapter Forty. A Furniture Picture
Chapter Forty One. A Terrible Threat
Chapter Forty Two. An Unknown Correspondent
Chapter Forty Three. Cutting a Way Skyward
Chapter Forty Four. Again in Prison
Chapter Forty Five. Consequential Swagger
Chapter Forty Six. Alone with Lucetta Torreani
Chapter Forty Seven. Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
Chapter Forty Eight. Four to One
Chapter Forty Nine. Evviva Ella Republica!
Chapter Fifty. The Abduction
Chapter Fifty One. On the Trail
Chapter Fifty Two. A Suffocating Drink
Chapter Fifty Three. Courtship with a Captive
Chapter Fifty Four. A Terrible Tableau
Chapter Fifty Five. The Roman Republic
Chapter Fifty Six. Number Nine, Strada Volturno
Chapter Fifty Seven. A Fruitless Search
Chapter Fifty Eight. The New Squire of Beechwood
Chapter Fifty Nine. In the Campo
Chapter Sixty. Pleasant Hospitality
Chapter Sixty One. An Unknown Host
Chapter Sixty Two. A Lost Legatee
Chapter Sixty Three “Something to his Advantage.”
Chapter Sixty Four. A Hundred Thousand Pounds
Chapter Sixty Five. The Finger of Fate
Chapter Sixty Six. What Became of Them
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Between the old officer and the newcomer there was no cordiality; on the contrary, some coolness. General Harding had an instinctive contempt for the vulgar ostentation usually exhibited by these social upstarts, who must needs ride to the parish church in a carriage and pair, though their residence be but three hundred yards from the churchyard gate. Of this class was the gentleman in question.
In addition to the dissimilarity of tastes between a retired officer and a retired stockbroker, a dispute had early occurred between them, about rights of game belonging to a strip of waste that stretched triangularly between their respective properties.
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As was expected, Doggy took his way across the open expanse, where several nests had been “noted.” He still kept to his cat-like tread – crouching, and now and then looking suspiciously around him.
This did not hinder him from flushing a pheasant. One rose with a sonorous whirr; while another went fluttering along the sward as if both its wings had been broken.
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