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Chapter 5 THE ROAD HOME

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exhaustion in one of them for a while. With tingling fingers and aching arms they came out of the alcove into the long and deserted apartment, now pervaded by a dry haze. The lig

nd now, peeping through a crevice in the window curtains, he sai

d. The brilliant disc fired all the waves that lay between it and the shore at the bottom of the grounds, where the water tossed the ruddy light from one undulation to another in glares as large and clear as mir

w that whilst we were all shut in here with our puny illumination such an exhibition

clammy and cadaverous as the fingers of a corpse. The leaves and flowers which had appeared so very green and blooming by the artificial light were now seen to be faded and dusty. Only the gilding of the

ook no more than ghosts.' She turned up her weary face to her brother's, which the incoming rays smo

aid. 'Such a heavy night's work h

Faith. 'But I could not hav

y of them towards the morning; but, luckily, people do

orked, but that you should be so situated as to need such

little about pov

thus l

thoroughfare

they had all gone to bed, and wouldn't get up again for days.' She indicated to him a figure on

tinued Faith. 'Yes, I see the blue f

rrel-coloured hair,

red the active faculties; she went on, with no abundance of love, to theorize upon this gratuitously charming woman, who, striking freakishly into her brother's path, seemed likely to do him no good in

a lady of many romantic expe

was just of the kind which may be imagined of a sombre man

n Christopher's system, might soon become more-an indestructible fascination-to drag him about, turn his soul i

opening of a door. A servan

Christopher's hand. 'Some breakfast will be ready for you in a moment if you like to

ropped the two pounds and two shillings singly into his pocket, and looking listlessly at the

s with blue flow

O, that's the young widow, Mrs-what'

d Faith uttering a private ejaculation of thanks that after all no commandments were l

idow, for there is not time for her ever to have been made one. However, she's

he live

r a few days with her mother-in-law. They ar

e a po

ast as sticks a-breaking. They will run off her tongue like cotton from a reel, and if she can ever be got in the mind of telling a story she will bring it out that serious and awful that it makes your flesh creep upon your bones; if she's only got to say that she walked out of one door into another, she'll tell it s

oing?' inquired Christopher,

miles out of Sandbourne, in t

Christoph

makes no difference to us,

all inlet below them, the sands of this nook being sheltered by crumbling cliffs. Here at once they

She has walked along the shore from

or body she meets. You see she had been out for a morning walk instead of going t

not prefer some res

the sea were no longer within view from the carriage,

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Contents

Chapter 1 A HEATH NEAR IT-INSIDE THE 'RED LION' INN Chapter 2 SANDBOURNE TOWN-SANDBOURNE MOOR Chapter 3 SANDBOURNE MOOR (continued) Chapter 4 ROAD TO WYNDWAY-BALL-ROOM IN WYNDWAY HOUSE Chapter 5 THE ROAD HOME Chapter 6 THE SHORE BY WYNDWAY Chapter 7 ROOM OF A TOWN HOUSE-THE BUTLER'S PANTRY Chapter 8 THE GROUNDS ABOUT ROOKINGTON Chapter 9 ROOMS-ETHELBERTA'S DRESSING-ROOM Chapter 10 LADY PETHERWIN'S HOUSE Chapter 11 SOME LONDON STREETS
Chapter 12 ARROWTHORNE PARK AND LODGE
Chapter 13 THE COPSE BEHIND
Chapter 14 A TURNPIKE ROAD
Chapter 15 AN INNER ROOM AT THE LODGE
Chapter 16 A LARGE PUBLIC HALL
Chapter 17 ETHELBERTA'S HOUSE
Chapter 18 LONDON STREETS-ETHELBERTA'S
Chapter 19 ROOM
Chapter 20 THE ROAD HOME No.20
Chapter 21 NEIGH'S ROOMS-CHRISTOPHER'S ROOMS
Chapter 22 ETHELBERTA'S HOUSE No.22
Chapter 23 ETHELBERTA'S HOUSE (continued)
Chapter 24 THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Chapter 25 THE FARNFIELD ESTATE
Chapter 26 ROOM No.26
Chapter 27 BELMAINE'S-CRIPPLEGATE CHURCH
Chapter 28 MR. CHICKEREL'S ROOM
Chapter 29 ROOM-MR. DONCASTLE'S HOUSE
Chapter 30 ON THE HOUSETOP
Chapter 31 A LOFTY DOWN-A RUINED CASTLE
Chapter 32 A ROOM IN ENCKWORTH COURT
Chapter 33 NORMANDY
Chapter 34 THE H TEL BEAU SéJOUR AND SPOTS NEAR IT
Chapter 35 THE HOTEL (continued), AND THE QUAY IN FRONT
Chapter 36 THE HOUSE IN TOWN
Chapter 37 AN ORNAMENTAL VILLA
Chapter 38 ENCKWORTH COURT
Chapter 39 MELCHESTER
Chapter 40 MELCHESTER (continued)
Chapter 41 AN INN-THE STREET
Chapter 42 THE DONCASTLES' RESIDENCE, AND OUTSIDE THE SAME
Chapter 43 THE SEA-THE SHORE BEYOND
Chapter 44 A LONELY HEATH-THE 'RED LION'-THE HIGHWAY
Chapter 45 THE ROAD THENCE-ENCKWORTH
Chapter 46 THE ANGLEBURY HIGHWAY
Chapter 47 MELCHESTER No.47
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