The Forlorn Hope: A Novel (Vol. 2 of 2)

· 1894

CHAPTER I. Nothing like Wilmot. II. Another Turn of the Screw. III. A Coup manqué. IV. Madeleine awakes. V. At our Minister's. VI. The Gulf fixed. VII. Henrietta. VIII. Mrs. Ramsay Caird at Home. IX. Inquisitorial. X. Against the Grain. XI. Iconoclastic. XII. Too Late. XIII. Quand même! XIV. Forlorn. Mr. Foljambe did not easily throw off the painful impression which his interview with Chudleigh Wilmot had made upon him. The old gentleman had always found Wilmot, though not an expansive, a singularly frank person; he had not indeed ever spoken much to him concerning his wife or his domestic affairs generally; but men do not do so habitually; and the men to whom their wives are most dear and …

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