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Cobwebs and Cables By: Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) |
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AND CABLES. BY HESBA STRETTON, AUTHOR OF "THROUGH A NEEDLE'S EYE," "IN PRISON AND OUT," "BEDE'S CHARITY," ETC. NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. AUTHOR'S CARD. It is my wish that Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Company alone should publish this story in the United States, and I appeal to the generosity and courtesy of other Publishers, to allow me to gain some benefit from my work on the American as well as English side of the Atlantic. HESBA STRETTON. CONTENTS. PART I. CHAPTER I. ABSCONDED II. PHEBE MARLOWE III. FELICITA IV. UPFOLD FARM V. A CONFESSION VI. THE OLD BANK VII. AN INTERRUPTED DAY DREAM VIII. THE SENIOR PARTNER IX. FAST BOUND X. LEAVING RIVERSBOROUGH XI. OLD MARLOWE XII. RECKLESS OF LIFE XIII. SUSPENSE XIV. ON THE ALTAR STEPS XV. A SECOND FRAUD XVI. PARTING WORDS XVII. WAITING FOR THE NEWS XVIII. THE DEAD ARE FORGIVEN XIX. AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER XX. A DUMB MAN'S GRIEF XXI. PLATO AND PAUL XXII. A REJECTED SUITOR XXIII. ANOTHER OFFER XXIV. AT HOME IN LONDON XXV. DEAD TO THE WORLD PART II. CHAPTER I. AFTER MANY YEARS II. CANON PASCAL III. FELICITA'S REFUSAL IV. TAKING ORDERS V. A LONDON CURACY VI. OTHER PEOPLE'S SINS VII. AN OLD MAN'S PARDON VIII. THE GRAVE AT ENGELBERG IX. THE LOWEST DEEPS X. ALICE PASCAL XI. COMING TO HIMSELF XII. A GLIMPSE INTO PARADISE XIII. A LONDON GARRET XIV. HIS FATHER'S SIN XV. HAUNTING MEMORIES XVI. THE VOICE OF THE DEAD XVII. NO PLACE FOR REPENTANCE XVIII. WITHIN AND WITHOUT XIX. IN HIS FATHER'S HOUSE XX. AS A HIRED SERVANT XXI. PHEBE'S SECRET XXII. NEAR THE END XXIII. THE MOST MISERABLE XXIV. FOR ONE MOMENT XXV. THE FINAL RESOLVE XXVI. IN LUCERNE XXVII. HIS OWN CHILDREN XXVIII. AN EMIGRATION SCHEME XXIX. FAREWELL XXX. QUITE ALONE XXXI. LAST WORDS COBWEBS AND CABLES PART I. CHAPTER I. ABSCONDED. Late as it was, though the handsome office clock on the chimney piece had already struck eleven, Roland Sefton did not move. He had not stirred hand or foot for a long while now; no more than if he had been bound fast by many strong cords, which no effort could break or untie. His confidential clerk had left him two hours ago, and the undisturbed stillness of night had surrounded him ever since he had listened to his retreating footsteps. "Poor Acton!" he had said half aloud, and with a heavy sigh. As he sat there, his clasped hands resting on his desk and his face hidden on them, all his life seemed to unfold itself before him; not in painful memories of the past only, but in terrified prevision of the black future. How dear his native town was to him! He had always loved it from his very babyhood. The wide old streets, with ancient houses still standing here and there, rising or falling in gentle slopes, and called by quaint old names such as he never heard elsewhere; the fine old churches crowning the hills, and lifting up delicate tall spires, visible a score of miles away; the grammar school where he had spent the happiest days of his boyhood; the rapid river, brown and swirling, which swept past the town, and came back again as if it could not leave it; the ancient bridges spanning it, and the sharp cornered recesses on them where he had spent many an idle hour, watching the boats row in and out under the arches; he saw every familiar nook and corner of his native town vividly and suddenly, as if he caught glimpses of them by the capricious play of lightning. And this pleasant home of his; these walls which inclosed his birth place, and the birth place of his children! He could not imagine himself finding true rest and a peaceful shelter elsewhere. The spacious old rooms, with brown wainscoted walls and carved ceilings; the tall and narrow windows, with deep window sills, where as a child he had so often knelt, gazing out on the wide green landscape and the far distant, almost level line of the horizon... Continue reading book >>
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