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Excerpt: ""Le jour viendra—it is the motto of our family—given to us by Henry VI. 'The day will come,'" said old Lord Lamorna, proudly, as he lay back in his easy chair, with his elbows resting on the arms thereof, and the tips of his upraised fingers placed together, as if he was about to pray; "and most applicable is that motto to you, nephew Richard, for I am sure that when you are my age you will regret not having taken my advice." Richard Trevelyan smiled, but looked somewhat uneasily at his younger brother Downie. "You are too rich to throw yourself away, and too well-born even for the most highly accomplished daughter of a cotton-lord, or knighted mill-owner," resumed his stately old uncle, sententiously; "a fellow knighted too probably for dirty ministerial work; but assume a virtue if you have it not, and let us see you——" "Excuse me, my lord—excuse me, my dear uncle. I have no desire to—to marry; why you—yourself——" "Don't cite me, Richard. You are only forty-three, if so much" (and here, for the information of our young lady readers, we may mention that Richard is not the hero of these pages). "I am past seventy, yet I may marry yet, and do you all out of the title," added Lamorna, with a laugh like a cackle."
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Length21 hrs 26 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2021
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Table of contents
1PREFACE.
2CHAPTER I. THE TIME WILL COME.
3CHAPTER II. RHOSCADZHEL.
4CHAPTER III. THE ALARM BELL.
5CHAPTER IV. POWDERED WITH TEARS.
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6CHAPTER V. PORTHELLICK VILLA.
7CHAPTER VI. RICHARD'S MYSTERY.
8CHAPTER VII. LADY LAMORNA.
9CHAPTER VIII. THE BROKEN CIRCLE.
10CHAPTER IX. FOREBODINGS.
11CHAPTER X. THE LONELY TARN.
12CHAPTER XI. CONCERNING FLIRTATION.
13CHAPTER XII. THE PIXIES' HOLE.
14CHAPTER XIII. THE TIDE IN!
15CHAPTER XIV. LOST.
16CHAPTER XV. THE SEARCH.
17CHAPTER XVI. INTELLIGENCE AT LAST.
18CHAPTER XVII. THE TRECARRELS.
19CHAPTER XVIII. HE LOVES ME, TRULY!
20CHAPTER XIX. THE GREATER SORROW.
21CHAPTER XX. A FAMILY GROUP.
22CHAPTER XXI. HUMILIATION.
23CHAPTER XXII. "MRS. GRUNDY."
24CHAPTER XXIII. A LEGAL "FRIEND."
25CHAPTER XXIV. THE DOCTRINE OF CHANCES.
26CHAPTER XXV. MISCONCEPTION.
27CHAPTER XXVI. REVERSES.
28CHAPTER XXVII. ALONE!
29Volume 2
30CHAPTER I. BEYOND THE LAND OF THE SUN.
31CHAPTER II. IN THE AFGHAN FORT.
32CHAPTER III. THE WARNING.
33CHAPTER IV. WHAT TOOK US THERE.
34CHAPTER V. TIFFIN WITH THE TRECARRELS.
35CHAPTER VI. THE APPOINTMENT.
36CHAPTER VII. "THE BAND PLAYS AT TWO."
37CHAPTER VIII. THE DRIVE.
38CHAPTER IX. ADVENTURE IN CABUL.
39CHAPTER X. THE MOSQUE OF BABER.
40CHAPTER XI. "ONLY AN ENSIGN."
41CHAPTER XII. ASSASSINATION.
42CHAPTER XIII. HOME IN THE SPIRIT.
43CHAPTER XIV. IN THE FORTIFIED CAMP.
44CHAPTER XV. CHRISTMAS AT CABUL.
45CHAPTER XVI. THE MORNING OF THE RETREAT.
46CHAPTER XVII. THE HALT BY THE LOGHUR RIVER.
47CHAPTER XVIII. SPIRITED AWAY!
48CHAPTER XIX. THE SKIRMISH.
49CHAPTER XX. IN THE KHYBER PASS.
50CHAPTER XXI. WALLER'S ADVENTURES.
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