When It Was Dark: The Story of a Great Conspiracy
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Thorne Guy. When It Was Dark: The Story of a Great Conspiracy
BOOK I
CHAPTER I. AN INCIDENT BY WAY OF PROLOGUE
CHAPTER II. IN THE VICAR'S STUDY
CHAPTER III "I THINK HE IS A GOOD MAN"
CHAPTER IV. THE SMOKE CLOUD AT DAWN
CHAPTER V. A LOST SOUL
CHAPTER VI. THE WHISPER
CHAPTER VII. LAST WORDS AT WALKTOWN
CHAPTER VIII. A DINNER AT THE PANNIER D'OR
CHAPTER IX. INAUGURATION
CHAPTER X. THE RESURRECTION SERMON
CHAPTER XI "NEITHER DO I CONDEMN THEE"
CHAPTER XII. POWERS OF GOOD AND EVIL
BOOK II
CHAPTER I. WHILE LONDON WAS SLEEPING
CHAPTER II. AVOIDING THE FLOWER PATTERN ON THE CARPET
CHAPTER III "I, JOSEPH"
CHAPTER IV. THE DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN'S TESTIMONY
CHAPTER V. DEUS, DEUS MEUS, QUARE DERELIQUISTI!
CHAPTER VI. HARNESS THE HORSES; AND GET UP, YE HORSEMEN, AND STAND FORTH WITH YOUR HELMETS; FURBISH THE SPEARS, AND PUT ON THE BRIGANDINES. – JER. XLVI: 4
CHAPTER VII. THE HOUR OF CHAOS
CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST LINKS
CHAPTER IX. PARTICULAR INSTANCES, CONTRASTING THE OLD LADY AND THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
CHAPTER X. THE TRIUMPH OF SIR ROBERT LLWELLYN
CHAPTER XI. PROGRESS
CHAPTER XII. A SOUL ALONE ON THE SEA-SHORE
BOOK III
CHAPTER I. WHAT IT MEANT TO THE WORLD'S WOMEN
CHAPTER II. CYRIL HANDS REDUX
CHAPTER III. all ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains. – isaiah xviii: 3
CHAPTER IV. A LUNCHEON PARTY
CHAPTER V. BY THE TOWER OF HIPPICUS
CHAPTER VI. UNDER THE EASTERN STARS: TOWARDS GERIZIM
CHAPTER VII. THE LAST MEETING
CHAPTER VIII. DEATH COMING WITH ONE GRACE
CHAPTER IX. AT WALKTOWN AGAIN
EPILOGUE. IN THREE PICTURES
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Mr. Hinchcliffe, the sexton, looked up as Mr. Philemon, the clerk, unlocked the great gates of open ironwork which led into the street. Hinchcliffe was cutting the lettering on a tombstone, supported by heavy wooden trestles, under a little shed close to the vestry door of the church.
The clerk, a small, rotund man, clerical in aspect, and wearing a round felt hat, pulled out a large, old-fashioned watch. "Time for the bell, William," he said.
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He was to wait a year and then he would be married. There were no money obstacles in the way and no reason for further delay. Only the vicar looked forward with a sort of horror to his future loneliness, and tried to put the thought from him whenever it came.
After dinner Helena left the two men to smoke alone in the study. There was a concert in the Town Hall to which she was going with Mrs. Pryde, the solicitor's wife, a neighbour. Her friend's carriage called for her about eight, and Gortre settled down for a long talk with the vicar on parochial affairs.
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