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Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915

"Charlotte's Inheritance"

VALENTINE'S SKELETON
V. AT HAROLD'S HILL
VI. DESPERATE MEASURES

Book the Eighth.
A FIGHT AGAINST TIME.
I. A DREAD REVELATION
II. PHOENICIANS ARE RISING
III. THE SORTES VIRGILIANAE

Book the Ninth.
THROUGH THE FURNACE.
I. SOMETHING TOO MUCH
II. DR. JEDD'S OPINION
III. NON DORMIT JUDAS
IV. COUNTING THE COST
V. THE BEGINNING OF THE END
VI. CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED
VII. THERE IS A WORD WILL PRIAM TURN TO STONE

Book the Tenth.
HARBOUR, AFTER MANY SHIPWRECKS.
I. OUT OF THE DARK VALLEY
II. AFTER THE WEDDING
III. GREEK AGAINST GREEK
IV. ONLY A DREAM
V. BOHEMIAN INDEPENDENCE
VI. BEYOND THE VEIL
VII. BETTER THAN GOLD
VIII. LOST SIGHT OF
IX. ETEOCLES AND POLYNICES
X. "ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS."


CHARLOTTE'S INHERITANCE

Book the first.

DE PROFUNDIS.

CHAPTER I.

LENOBLE OF BEAUBOCAGE.
In the days when the Bourbon reigned over Gaul, before the "simple,
sensuous, passionate" verse of Alfred de Musset had succeeded the
_debonnaire_ Muse of Beranger in the affections of young France,--in days
when the site of the Trocadero was a remote and undiscovered country, and
the word "exposition" unknown in the Academic dictionary, and the Gallic
Augustus destined to rebuild the city yet an exile,--a young law-student
boarded, in common with other students, in a big dreary-looking house at
the corner of the Rue Grande-Mademoiselle, abutting on the Place Lauzun,
and within some ten minutes walk of the Luxembourg.


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