The Moonlit Way

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Robert W. Chambers. The Moonlit Way

The Moonlit Way

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE. CLAIRE-DE-LUNE

I. A SHADOW DANCE

II. SUNRISE

III. SUNSET

IV. DUSK

V. IN DRAGON COURT

VI. DULCIE

VII. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

VIII. DULCIE ANSWERS

IX. HER DAY

X. HER EVENING

XI. HER NIGHT

XII. THE LAST MAIL

XIII. A MIDNIGHT TÊTE-À-TÊTE

XIV. PROBLEMS

XV. BLACKMAIL

XVI. THE WATCHER

XVII. A CONFERENCE

XVIII. THE BABBLER

XIX. A CHANCE ENCOUNTER

XX. GROGAN’S

XXI. THE WHITE BLACKBIRD

XXII. FORELAND FARMS

XXIII. A LION IN THE PATH

XXIV. A SILENT HOUSE

XXV. STARLIGHT

XXVI ’BE-N EIRINN I!

XXVII. THE MOONLIT WAY

XXVIII. GREEN JACKETS

XXIX. ASTHORE

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Robert W. Chambers

A Novel

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She stood laughing at him, swathed in her white wool, looming like some mocking spectre in the misty moonlight of the after-deck.

“Oh, Ferez,” she said in her sweet, malicious voice, “there was a curse on Midas, too! You play at high finance; you sell what you never had to sell, and you are paid for it. All your life you have been busy selling, re-selling, bargaining, betraying, seeking always gain where only loss is possible—loss of all that justifies a man in daring to stand alive before the God that made him!... And yet—that which you call love—that shadowy emotion which you have also sold to-night—I think you really feel for me.... Yes, I believe it.... But it, too, has its price.... What was that price, Ferez?”

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