Wilkie Collins

The Black Robe


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      The Black Robe

      WILKIE COLLINS

      

      

      

       The Black Robe, Wilkie Collins,

       Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck

       86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9

       Deutschland

      

       ISBN: 9783849658441

      

       www.jazzybee-verlag.de

       [email protected]

      

      

      

      CONTENTS:

       BEFORE THE STORY. 1

       FIRST SCENE.. 1

       SECOND SCENE. 15

       BOOK THE FIRST. 27

       CHAPTER I. THE CONFIDENCES. 27

       CHAPTER II. THE JESUITS. 33

       CHAPTER III. THE INTRODUCTION TO ROMAYNE. 38

       CHAPTER IV. FATHER BENWELL HITS. 43

       CHAPTER V. FATHER BENWELL MISSES. 47

       CHAPTER VI. THE ORDER OF THE DISHES. 52

       CHAPTER VII. THE INFLUENCE OF STELLA. 57

       CHAPTER VIII. THE PRIEST OR THE WOMAN?. 61

       CHAPTER IX. THE PUBLIC AND THE PICTURES. 68

       CHAPTER X. FATHER BENWELL’S CORRESPONDENCE. 70

       CHAPTER XI. STELLA ASSERTS HERSELF. 76

       CHAPTER XII. THE GENERAL’S FAMILY. 80

       CHAPTER XIII. FATHER BENWELL’S CORRESPONDENCE. 89

       BOOK THE SECOND. 90

       CHAPTER I. THE SANDWICH DANCE. 90

       CHAPTER II. THE QUESTION OF MARRIAGE. 95

       CHAPTER III. THE END OF THE BALL. 101

       CHAPTER IV. IN THE SMALL HOURS. 105

       BOOK THE THIRD. 112

       CHAPTER I. THE HONEYMOON. 112

       CHAPTER II. EVENTS AT TEN ACRES. 115

       CHAPTER III. FATHER BENWELL AND THE BOOK. 120

       CHAPTER IV. THE END OF THE HONEYMOON. 125

       CHAPTER V. FATHER BENWELL’S CORRESPONDENCE. 132

       BOOK THE FOURTH. 149

       CHAPTER I. THE BREACH IS WIDENED. 149

       CHAPTER II. A CHRISTIAN JESUIT. 152

       CHAPTER III. WINTERFIELD RETURNS. 159

       CHAPTER IV. FATHER BENWELL’S CORRESPONDENCE. 165

       CHAPTER V. BERNARD WINTERFIELD’S CORRESPONDENCE. 169

       CHAPTER VI. THE SADDEST OF ALL WORDS. 171

       CHAPTER VII. THE IMPULSIVE SEX. 175

       CHAPTER VIII. FATHER BENWELL’S CORRESPONDENCE.. 180

       BOOK THE FIFTH. 181

       CHAPTER I. MRS. EYRECO URT’S DISCOVERY. 181

       CHAPTER II. THE SEED IS SOWN. 187

       CHAPTER III. THE HARVEST IS REAPED. 190

       CHAPTER IV. ON THE ROAD TO ROME. 197

      BEFORE THE STORY.

      FIRST SCENE.—BOULOGNE-SUR-MER.—THE DUEL.

      I.

      THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick.

      When the medical advisers of a lady who has reached seventy years of age recommend the mild climate of the South of France, they mean in plain language that they have arrived at the end of their resources. Her ladyship gave the mild climate a fair trial, and then decided (as she herself expressed it) to “die at home.” Traveling slowly, she had reached Paris at the date when I last heard of her. It was then the beginning of November. A week later, I met with her nephew, Lewis Romayne, at the club.

      “What