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Walter Besant. The Changeling
The Changeling
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. WAS IT SUBSTITUTION?
CHAPTER II. THE ONLY WITNESS GONE
CHAPTER III. THE THREE COUSINS
CHAPTER IV. THE CONSULTING-ROOM
CHAPTER V. GUEST NIGHT
CHAPTER VI. THE OLD LOVER
CHAPTER VII. THE MASTER OF THE SITUATION
CHAPTER VIII. THE COUSINS
CHAPTER IX. ONE MORE
CHAPTER X. COUSIN ALFRED'S SECRET
CHAPTER XI. THE DOCTOR'S DINNER
CHAPTER XII. THE OTHER CHILD OF DESERTION
CHAPTER XIII. A MIDNIGHT WALK
CHAPTER XIV. THE FIRST MOVE
CHAPTER XV. TWO JUMPS AND A CONCLUSION
CHAPTER XVI. A WRETCH
CHAPTER XVII. THE SECOND BLOW
CHAPTER XVIII. A GRACIOUS LADY
CHAPTER XIX. A CABINET COUNCIL
CHAPTER XX. JOHN HAVERIL CLEARS UP THINGS
CHAPTER XXI "TO BE OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE."
CHAPTER XXII. THE CLAN AGAIN
CHAPTER XXIII. ONE MORE ATTEMPT
CHAPTER XXIV. A HORRID NIGHT
CHAPTER XXV. THE FIRST MOTHER
CHAPTER XXVI. THE SECOND MOTHER
CHAPTER THE LAST. FORGIVENESS
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Walter Besant
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"No clue," the doctor continued. "She is quite safe, unless she were to meet me. No other clue. Nobody else knows." He took up the envelope, and observed that it had part of an address upon it. All he could read, however, was one word—"Lady." "Oho!" he said; "there is a title, after all. It looks as if the latter half were a 'W.' There's a conspiracy, and I'm a conspirator! Humph! She's a beautiful creature!"
He fell into meditation on that subject which is always interesting to mere man—the face of a woman. Then his thoughts naturally wandered off to the conversation he had held with that memorable face.
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