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The young lady spoke first. “Mr. Goldenheart,” she said, with the coldest possible politeness, “perhaps you will be good enough to explain what this means?” She turned back into the dining-room. Am…
Returning to his hotel, he found three letters waiting for him on the sitting-room table. The first letter that he opened was from his landlord, and contained his bill for the past week. As he looke…
In an interval of no more than three weeks what events may not present themselves? what changes may not take place? Behold Amelius, on the first drizzling day of November, established in respectable …
The rain that had begun with the morning still poured on steadily in the afternoon. After one look out of the window, Regina decided on passing the rest of the day luxuriously, in the company of a no…
Rufus found his friend at the lodgings, prostrate on the sofa, smoking furiously. Before a word had passed between them, it was plain to the New Englander that something had gone wrong. “Well,” he a…
The medium of correspondence between Amelius and Regina’s maid was an old woman who kept a shop for the sale of newspapers and periodicals, in a by-street not far from Mr. Farnaby’s house. From this …
Late that night Amelius sat alone in his room, making notes for the lecture which he had now formally engaged himself to deliver in a week’s time. Thanks to his American education (as Rufus had supp…
Mrs. Farnaby stood at the door of her own room, and looked at her niece with an air of contemptuous curiosity. “Well? You and your lover have had a fine time of it together, I suppose? What do you w…
Entering the hall, Mr. Farnaby discovered without difficulty the position of modest retirement of which he was in search. The cheap seats were situated, as usual, on that part of the floor of the bu…
“Three dozen oysters, bread-and-butter, and bottled stout; a private room and a good fire.” Issuing these instructions, on his arrival at the tavern, Jervy was surprised by a sudden act of interferen…
