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Sergeant Adeline. Under False Pretences
Under False Pretences
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
Prologue to the Story
In Two Parts
I
II
END OF THE PROLOGUE. CHAPTER II
BY THE LOCH
CHAPTER III
HUGO LUTTRELL
CHAPTER IV
IN THE TWILIGHT
CHAPTER V
THE DEAD MAN'S TESTIMONY
CHAPTER VI
MOTHER AND SON
CHAPTER VII
A FAREWELL
CHAPTER VIII
IN GOWER-STREET
CHAPTER IX
ELIZABETH'S WOOING
CHAPTER X
BROTHER DINO
CHAPTER XI
ON A MOUNTAIN-SIDE
CHAPTER XII
THE HEIRESS OF STRATHLECKIE
CHAPTER XIII
SAN STEFANO
CHAPTER XIV
THE PRIOR'S OPINION
CHAPTER XV
THE VILLA VENTURI
CHAPTER XVI
"WITHOUT A REFERENCE."
CHAPTER XVII
PERCIVAL'S HOLIDAY
CHAPTER XVIII
THE MISTRESS OF NETHERGLEN
CHAPTER XIX
A LOST LETTER
CHAPTER XX
"MISCHIEF, THOU ART AFOOT."
CHAPTER XXI
A FLASK OF ITALIAN WINE
CHAPTER XXII
BRIAN'S WELCOME
CHAPTER XXIII
THE WISHING WELL
CHAPTER XXIV
"GOOD-BYE."
CHAPTER XXV
A COVENANT
CHAPTER XXVI
ELIZABETH'S CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXVII
PERCIVAL'S OWN WAY
CHAPTER XXVIII
A REVELATION
CHAPTER XXIX
DINO'S PROPOSITION
CHAPTER XXX
FRIENDS AND BROTHERS
CHAPTER XXXI
ACCUSER AND ACCUSED
CHAPTER XXXII
RETRIBUTION
CHAPTER XXXIII
WHAT PERCIVAL KNEW
CHAPTER XXXIV
PERCIVAL'S ATONEMENT
CHAPTER XXXV
DINO'S HOME-COMING
CHAPTER XXXVI
BY LAND AND SEA
CHAPTER XXXVII
WRECKED
CHAPTER XXXVIII
ON THE ROCAS REEF
CHAPTER XXXIX
BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
CHAPTER XL
KITTY
CHAPTER XLI
KITTY'S FRIENDS
CHAPTER XLII
A FALSE ALARM
CHAPTER XLIII
TRAPPED
CHAPTER XLIV
HUGO'S VICTORY
CHAPTER XLV
TOO LATE!
CHAPTER XLVI
A MERE CHANCE
CHAPTER XLVII
FOUND
CHAPTER XLVIII
ANGELA
CHAPTER XLIX
KITTY'S WARNING
CHAPTER L
MRS. LUTTRELL'S ROOM
CHAPTER LI
A LAST CONFESSION
CHAPTER LII
"THE END CROWNS ALL, AND THAT IS YET TO COME."
THE END
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Adeline Sergeant
A Novel
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She knelt down beside him and placed one hand soothingly upon his ruffled, black locks. For a few minutes she also did not speak. She knew that he could not hear.
The world was not wrong when it called Angela Vivian a beautiful woman, although superfine critics objected that her features were not perfect, and that her hair, her eyes, her complexion, were all too colourless for beauty. But her great charm lay in the harmonious character of her appearance. To deepen the tint of that soft, pale hair—almost ash-coloured, with a touch of gold in the heavy coils—to redden her beautifully-shaped mouth, and her narrow, oval face, to imagine those sweet, calm, grey eyes of any more definite shade would have been to make her no longer the Angela Vivian that so many people knew and loved. But if fault were found with her face, no exception could be taken to her figure and the grace with which she moved. There, at least, she was perfect.
