The Tigress
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Warner Anne. The Tigress
CHAPTER I. On a Moonlight Night in Simla
CHAPTER II. A Psychological Contretemps
CHAPTER III. The Cobra in the Corner
CHAPTER IV. A White Slipper and a Red Stain
CHAPTER V. The Question of the Dead Alive
CHAPTER VI. A Hard Man and Bitter
CHAPTER VII. The Cross and the Crown
CHAPTER VIII. In a World Within a World
CHAPTER IX. There's a Lass in Dundee!
CHAPTER X. A Prayer and a Prophecy
CHAPTER XI. Things One Shouldn't Say
CHAPTER XII. The Joy of Interest
CHAPTER XIII. Surprises for the Broken-Hearted
CHAPTER XIV. Truths, Kisses, and Ducal Ennui
CHAPTER XV. A Last Walk and a Last Appeal
CHAPTER XVI. Where Amor Led
CHAPTER XVII. The Intervention of the Unforeseen
CHAPTER XVIII. At Cross Saddle
CHAPTER XIX. Fate's Fearful Ingenuity
CHAPTER XX. Fires of One Kind and Another
CHAPTER XXI. An End to the Gossip
CHAPTER XXII. The Interrupted Honeymoon
CHAPTER XXIII. A Mysterious Widow of Bath
CHAPTER XXIV. The Disinterested Married Man
CHAPTER XXV. The Interested Married Man
CHAPTER XXVI. Three Persons Go Three Ways
CHAPTER XXVII. Reason Tottering on Its Throne
CHAPTER XXVIII. Incarnate or Reincarnate
CHAPTER XXIX. The Mantle of Heroism
CHAPTER XXX. A Letter and a Legacy
CHAPTER XXXI. What They Knew and Thought
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Young Andrews was a sensitive soul, but he was not unmanly. He fought off the tears as long as he was conscious, but his pillow was wet in the morning.
His station was "on the Bombay side," as they say in India. To be exact, it was at Junnar. And he started down the next day, after sending Nina a bouquet of Annandale's loveliest roses. But when he alighted from the little branch railway line at Umballa, he halted.
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Even when he appeared at the Darling bungalow, the next day, the thing got him by the throat, as it were, at every turn. For the trophies of the sportsman and the all-too-feminine evidences of the chatelaine clashed side by side; every clash echoing in young Andrews's soul.
Again and again he found his attention straying, for instance, from an especially fine tiger-skin or the mounted head of a curiously horned markhor to a dainty writing-desk that he knew at a glance must be Nina's, or to a framed photograph of a group on an English lawn, in which, instinctively, he detected Nina in the tall, girlish figure in the white frock.
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