The Changeling
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Walter Besant. The Changeling
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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One afternoon, about eighteen years later, certain mourning-coaches, returning home from a funeral, drew up before a house in Bryanston Square. There were three coaches. From the first descended a young man of twenty or thereabouts, still slight and boyish in figure. He had been sitting alone in the carriage.
In the third carriage there were two young maid-servants in black, and a boy in buttons. At the halting of the carriage they clapped their handkerchiefs to their eyes, because they knew what was expected on such an occasion; and they kept up this external show of grief until they had mounted the steps and the door was shut. The page, who was with them, had been weeping freely ever since they started; not so much from unavailing grief, as from the blackness of the ceremony, and the dreadful coffin, and the horror and terror and mystery of the thing. He went up the stairs snuffling, and so continued for the rest of the day.
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He laughed. "We went down in the world, and stayed there. Some of us assisted in colonizing Virginia, in the last century, by going out in the transports. There is a tradition of highwaymen; some of us had quarters permanently in the King's Bench. I am a musician, and a mime, and a small dramatist. Yet we have always kept up the memory of the Sheriff."
He shook his head. "There is not so much staying power," he said, "in a Sheriff as in a Lord Mayor."
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