The Long Night

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Stanley John Weyman. The Long Night

The Long Night

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

A STUDENT OF THEOLOGY

CHAPTER II

THE HOUSE ON THE RAMPARTS

CHAPTER III

THE QUINTESSENTIAL STONE

CHAPTER IV

CÆSAR BASTERGA

CHAPTER V

THE ELIXIR VITÆ

CHAPTER VI

TO TAKE OR LEAVE

CHAPTER VII

A SECOND TISSOT

CHAPTER VIII

ON THE THRESHOLD

CHAPTER IX

MELUSINA

CHAPTER X

AUCTIO FIT: VENIT VITA

CHAPTER XI

BY THIS OR THAT

CHAPTER XII

THE CUP AND THE LIP

CHAPTER XIII

A MYSTERY SOLVED

CHAPTER XIV

"AND ONLY ONE DOSE IN ALL THE WORLD!"

CHAPTER XV

ON THE BRIDGE

CHAPTER XVI

A GLOVE AND WHAT CAME OF IT

CHAPTER XVII

THE REMEDIUM

CHAPTER XVIII

THE BARGAIN STRUCK

CHAPTER XIX

THE DEPARTURE OF THE RATS

CHAPTER XX

IN THE DARKENED ROOM

CHAPTER XXI

THE REMEDIUM

CHAPTER XXII

TWO NAILS IN THE WALL

CHAPTER XXIII

IN TWO CHARACTERS

CHAPTER XXIV

ARMES! ARMES!

CHAPTER XXV

BASTERGA AT ARGOS

CHAPTER XXVI

THE DAWN

The End

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Stanley John Weyman

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Whether, do what he would, his feelings made themselves known—for the shoulders can speak, and eloquently, on occasion—or the reverse was the case, and his failure to rise to the bait disappointed the tormentor, the big man, Basterga, presently resumed the attack.

"Tissotius pereat, Tissotianus adest!" he muttered with a sneer. "But perhaps, young sir, Latinity is not one of your subjects. The tongue of the immortal Cicero——"

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