Produced by David Edwards, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) A STRANGE WORLD A Novel BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET’ ETC. ETC. ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. II. [Illustration: Publisher’s Logo] LONDON JOHN MAXWELL AND CO. 4, SHOE LANE, FLEET STREET 1875 [All rights reserved.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS TO VOL. II. ------- CHAP. PAGE I. ‘FAREWELL,’ QUOTH SHE, ‘AND COME 1 AGAIN TO-MORROW’ II. ‘O’ER ALL THERE HUNG A SHADOW AND A 16 FEAR’ III. ‘HE COMETH NOT,’ SHE SAID 26 IV. ‘AND I SHALL BE ALONE UNTIL I DIE’ 53 V. ‘SURELY, MOST BITTER OF ALL SWEET 67 THINGS THOU ART’ VI. ‘WE ARE PAST THE SEASON OF DIVIDED 83 ILLS’ VII. ‘THE DROWSY NIGHT GROWS ON THE 100 WORLD’ VIII. ‘GOOD NIGHT, GOOD REST. AH! NEITHER 107 BE MY SHARE’ IX. ‘SUCH A LORD IS LOVE’ 121 X. ‘THEN STREAMED LIFE’S FUTURE ON THE 134 FADING PAST’ XI. ‘A MERRIER HOUR WAS NEVER WASTED 158 THERE’ XII. ‘IT WAS THE HOUR WHEN WOODS ARE 165 COLD’ XIII. ‘NOW HALF TO THE SETTING MOON HAVE 182 GONE, AND HALF TO THE RISING DAY’ XIV. ‘O HEAVEN! THAT ONE MIGHT READ THE 201 BOOK OF FATE!’ XV. ‘QUI PEUT SOUS LE SOLEIL TROMPER SA 209 DESTINEE?’ XVI. ‘THIS IS MORE STRANGE THAN SUCH A 225 MURDER IS’ XVII. ‘AH, LOVE, THERE IS NO BETTER LIFE 235 THAN THIS’ XVIII. ‘LOVE IS A THING TO WHICH WE SOON 251 CONSENT’ XIX. SORROW AUGMENTETH THE MALADY 265 XX. ‘BUT OH! THE THORNS WE STAND UPON!’ 281 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A STRANGE WORLD CHAPTER I