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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
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER I. THE CONFIDENCES. 27
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
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
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
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
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