Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Social classes -- England -- Fiction
CHALLIS'S VISIT TO THE RECTORY. A VISIT TO JIM AT THE WELL.
HOW LIZARANN WAS AT THE SEASIDE. ST. AUGUSTIN'S SUMMER. HOW
THEY MET SALADIN. HOW CHALLIS TOLD ALL 543
CHAPTER XLIV
THE RECTOR'S OPINION, AND WHY IT CARRIED NO WEIGHT. OF THE
EFFICACY OF PRAYER, AND WHY CHALLIS DOUBTED IT. YET THE
RECTOR TOLERATED HIS IMPIETY 552
CHAPTER XLV
HOW CHALLIS AND JUDITH MET AGAIN AT TROUT BEND, AND TALKED
IT OVER. HOW SHE CRIED OFF, FEELING SECURE. AND OF THE
ARRANGEMENT THEY MADE. OF A CENTENARIAN WHO GOT HALF-A-SOVEREIGN 563
CHAPTER XLVI
HOW LIZARANN SAW THE SEA, AND A CHINESE LADY WROTE A BAD
ACCOUNT OF HER TO HER FRIENDS. HOW IT NEVER REACHED
JIM, AND MISS FOSSETT WAS WIRED FOR. HOW THE RECTOR
HAD TO GO TO CHIPPING CHESTER 574
CHAPTER XLVII
OF THE APPROACH OF LIZARANN'S RETURN, AND HOW JIM'S HOPES
WERE FED BY OLD DAVID. HOW JIM DID NOT CURSE A MOTOR-CAR.
HOW LIZARANN DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS 585
CHAPTER XLVIII
HOW JIM ADDED STORIES TO HIS AIR-CASTLE, AND SMOKED HIS LAST
PIPE. HOW HE KNEW CHALLIS'S VOICE AGAIN. WHO HAD TO
BE AT THE PARK GATE BY NINE. HOW JIM HEARD THE MOTOR
COMING BACK, AND LIZARANN'S VOICE. HOW ATHELSTAN TAYLOR
ARRIVED WITHOUT HER. OF JIM'S DEATH, AND HERS 599
CHAPTER XLIX
JUDITH'S VAGARIES. HOW SHE BROUGHT SIR ALFRED CHALLIS,
INSENSIBLE, TO ROYD HALL IN A MOTOR. A MESSAGE PER
MR. BROWNRIGG TO THE RECTOR. HOW TO PROBE THE MYSTERY.
JUDITH'S RESERVE. PUBLIC IMPATIENCE. THE CHAUFFEUR'S
TESTIMONY 614
CHAPTER L
OF MARIANNE AT BROADSTAIRS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A
"DREADNOUGHT." AND HOW SHE READ OF HER HUSBAND'S
ACCIDENT ON ITS ARMOUR-PLATES, AND AT ONCE STARTED
FOR ROYD. BUT SUPPOSE THEY CALLED HER "LADY CHALLIS"! 628
CHAPTER LI
HOW CHALLIS CAME TO, AND SPOKE. BUT HE ASKED FOR MARIANNE,
AND DIDN'T KNOW JUDITH FROM ADAM. HOW THE LATTER
PROMISED TO TELL HER FATHER. THE WORLD'S GUESSES,
MEANWHILE. HOW THE DUCHESS SAID WHAT THE POINT WAS,
AND CHALLIS RELAPSED 643
CHAPTER LII
OF JUDITH'S STATE OF MIND, AND HOW SHE TOLD HER FATHER.
BUT DID NOT IMPRESS HIM AS HE WOULD HAVE WISHED. WHO
KNOWS WHAT JUDITH WAS? OF A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR TO THE
HALL. HOW NO ONE RECOGNIZED MARIANNE. IS MY HUSBAND
DYING? A SCENE ON THE BIG STAIRCASE, AND HOW TWO TOFFS
WERE FAR FROM ODIOUS. HOW THE NURSE RECOGNIZED ATHELSTAN
TAYLOR. HOW JUDITH SAID GOOD-BYE TO CHALLIS. HOW
IT CAME OUT WHO MR. KEITH HORNE'S FRIEND WAS 652
CHAPTER LIII
A POSTSCRIPT. MR. AND MRS. ATHELSTAN TAYLOR. MR. AND
MRS. BROWNRIGG. ODDS AND ENDS OF SEQUELS. THE DREAM
VANISHES, READABLE BITS AND ALL! 674
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