On the Brink of a Chasm: A record of plot and passionMeade, L. T.
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On the Brink of a Chasm: A record of plot and passion
Meade, L. T.
Conspiracies -- Fiction; Husband and wife -- Fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Mesmerism -- Fiction; Revenge -- Fiction
David Christie Murray has written an amusing tale of two unworthies in
“A Rogue’s Conscience.” “If you want to enlighten a rogue’s conscience,
serve him as he served other people—rob him,” observes the “hero,” who
has acquired the “sixth sense of honesty.” How he arrived at this sage
conclusion, and how he put the principle into effect, all tend toward
the live human interest of a story which shows no sign of lagging from
beginning to end. The tale is not free from tragedy, but even the sombre
parts are handled easily and lightly, as though the author believed them
necessary, but yet felt freer in the atmosphere of almost light-hearted
roguery which pervades most of the volume. The book is capital reading
for a summer afternoon, and action lurks on every page.—_American_,
August 31, 1899.
Two rogues, who figure in the novel as James Mortimer and Alexander
Ross, in alliance with a third scamp, forged an issue of the Bank of
England. The nameless third paid the penalty of his crime, but Mortimer
and Ross, through the clever scheming of Mortimer, escaped to British
Columbia after having added to their ill-gotten gains. Mortimer,
apparently the most unscrupulous, makes the singular atonement which
transforms him into a hero.
—_Publishers’ Weekly_, July 22, 1899.
_A Man’s Undoing_
_By Mrs. H. LOVETT CAMERON_
_333 Pages, size 7½ x 5 cloth, 3 stampings, $1.00_
A retired English officer, returned to his widowed mother’s quiet home
in the country, finds his undoing in idleness, which leads him into a
flirtation with a girl socially and intellectually his inferior, but who
is clever enough to force marriage upon him. Then complications thicken,
as the man discovers the full meaning of his fatal mistake.
—_The Mail and Express_, August 10, 1889.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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