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Walter Besant. The inner house
The inner house
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE SUPPER-BELL
CHAPTER II. GROUT, SUFFRAGAN
CHAPTER III. CHRISTINE AT HOME
CHAPTER IV. WHAT IS LOVE?
CHAPTER V. THE OPEN DOOR
CHAPTER VI. THE ARCH PHYSICIAN
CHAPTER VII. THE FIDELITY OF JOHN LAX
CHAPTER VIII. THE ARCH TRAITOR
CHAPTER IX. IN THE INNER HOUSE
CHAPTER X. THE COUNCIL IN THE HOUSE
CHAPTER XI. THE TRIAL AND SENTENCE
CHAPTER XII. THE REBELS
CHAPTER XIII. THE EXECUTION
CHAPTER XIV. PRISONERS
CHAPTER XV. THE RECRUITING SERGEANT
CHAPTER XVI. A MOST UNEXPECTED CONCLUSION
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Walter Besant
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"Come, grandad," she said, as we passed her, "take my arm. You will be better after your dinner. Lean on me."
There was in her face so remarkable a light that I wonder now that no suspicion or distrust possessed us. I call it light, for I can compare it to nothing else. The easy, comfortable life our people led, and the absence of all exciting work, the decay of reading, and the abandonment of art, had left their faces placid to look upon, but dull. They were certainly dull. They moved heavily; if they lifted their eyes, they wanted the light that flashed from Christine's. It was a childish face still—full of softness. No one would ever believe that a creature so slight in form, so gentle to look upon, whose eyes were so soft, whose cheeks were like the untouched bloom of a ripe peach, whose half-parted lips were so rosy, was already harboring thoughts so abominable and already conceiving an enterprise so wicked.
