A Vanished Hand

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Sarah Doudney. A Vanished Hand

CHAPTER I. IN A BACK ROOM

CHAPTER II. WHAT WAS WRITTEN

CHAPTER III. TAKING COUNSEL

CHAPTER IV. MRS. TRYON

CHAPTER V. MRS. BEATON

CHAPTER VI. HAROLD AND META

CHAPTER VII. MRS. PENN

CHAPTER VIII. LOOKING AT PICTURES

CHAPTER IX. MEETINGS

CHAPTER X. LONELINESS

CHAPTER XI. MRS. VERDON

CHAPTER XII. HIS FIRST VISIT

CHAPTER XIII. IN PORTMAN SQUARE

CHAPTER XIV. RUSHBROOK

CHAPTER XV. WAYNE'S COURT

CHAPTER XVI. GOING TO CHURCH

CHAPTER XVII. THE PICNIC

CHAPTER XVIII. THE ISLAND

CHAPTER XIX. CONCLUSION

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"Every one said that it was a hopeless thing to get engaged to a poor curate," the writer went on, "and I was only a poor teacher, so the folly was not all on one side. We were wonderfully happy in our folly, so happy that we were full of pity for Mr. Worldly Wiseman when he happened to cross our path with his contemptuous smile. Even Harold's sister Ellen, with her cold blue eyes, had no power to chill us in those days. Frigid as Ellen was, I liked her better than James, her husband, who always pretended to be fond of me. He was a man of the 'good fellow' type – burly, and loud of voice. But Jamie, dear little lad, bore no resemblance to his father at all, and was only like his mother in her best moods. Oh, poor little Jamie!

"I am not writing a novel; I am only telling of things that really came to pass.

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"Not at all, ma'am. Glad to have been of use to you."

Elsie came away gaily from the broker's door, in the belief that she was going to walk straight to the goal. But Miss Saxon was less sanguine. Moreover, she had no great faith in the manuscript, and seemed disposed to think that it was written by some one who wanted to make a story.

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