Wilkie Collins

The Two Destinies


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      The Two Destinies

      WILKIE COLLINS

      

      

      

      

       The Two Destinies, Wilkie Collins,

       Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck

       86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9

       Deutschland

      

       ISBN: 9783849658397

      

       www.jazzybee-verlag.de

       [email protected]

      

      

      CONTENTS:

       THE PRELUDE. 1

       THE NARRATIVE. 7

       CHAPTER I. GREENWATER BROAD... 7

       CHAPTER II. TWO YOUNG HEARTS. 10

       CHAPTER III. SWEDENBORG AND THE SIBYL. 17

       CHAPTER IV. THE CURTAIN FALLS. 24

       CHAPTER V. MY STORY. 26

       CHAPTER VI. HER STORY. 32

       CHAPTER VII. THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE. 37

       CHAPTER VIII. THE KINDRED SPIRITS. 43

       CHAPTER IX. NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL. 51

       CHAPTER X. SAINT ANTHONY’S WELL. 58

       CHAPTER XI. THE LETTER OF INTRODUCTION. 64

       CHAPTER XII. THE DISASTERS OF MRS. VAN BRANDT. 68

       CHAPTER XIII. NOT CURED YET. 74

       CHAPTER XIV. MRS. VAN BRANDT AT HOME. 80

       CHAPTER XV. THE OBSTACLE BEATS ME. 86

       CHAPTER XVI. MY MOTHER’S DIARY. 90

       CHAPTER XVII. SHETLAND HOSPITALITY. 93

       CHAPTER XVIII. THE DARKENED ROOM. 99

       CHAPTER XIX. THE CATS. 104

       CHAPTER XX. THE GREEN FLAG. 109

       CHAPTER XXI. SHE COMES BETWEEN US. 114

       CHAPTER XXII. SHE CLAIMS ME AGAIN. 118

       CHAPTER XXIII. THE KISS. 124

       CHAPTER XXIV. IN THE SHADOW OF ST. PAUL’S. 132

       CHAPTER XXV. I KEEP MY APPOINTMENT. 136

       CHAPTER XXVI. CONVERSATION WITH MY MOTHER. 140

       CHAPTER XXVII. CONVERSATION WITH MRS. VAN BRANDT. 142

       CHAPTER XXVIII. LOVE AND MONEY. 147

       CHAPTER XXIX. OUR DESTINIES PART US. 151

       CHAPTER XXX. THE PROSPECT DARKENS. 154

       CHAPTER XXXI. THE PHYSICIAN’S OPINION. 162

       CHAPTER XXXII. A LAST LOOK AT GREENWATER BROAD. 167

       CHAPTER XXXIII. A VISION OF THE NIGHT. 171

       CHAPTER XXXIV. BY LAND AND SEA. 174

       CHAPTER XXXV. UNDER THE WINDOW. 180

       CHAPTER XXXVI. LOVE AND PRIDE. 183

       CHAPTER XXXVII. THE TWO DESTINIES. 190

       THE WIFE WRITES, AND CLOSES THE STORY. 198

      The Prelude.

       THE GUEST WRITES AND TELLS THE STORY OF THE DINNER PARTY.

      MANY years have passed since my wife and I left the United States to pay our first visit to England.

      We were provided with letters of introduction, as a matter of course. Among them there was a letter which had been written for us by my wife’s brother. It presented us to an English gentleman who held a high rank on the list of his old and valued friends.

      “You will become acquainted with Mr. George Germaine,” my brother-in-law said, when we took leave of him, “at a very interesting period of his life. My last news of him tells me that he is just married. I know nothing of the lady, or of the circumstances under which my friend first met with her. But of this I am certain: married or single, George Germaine will give you and your wife a hearty welcome to England, for my sake.”

      The day after our arrival in London, we left our letter of introduction at