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Phantom Fortune

Chapter 4 The Last Stage

Word Count: 1107    |    Released on: 18/11/2017

ot able to leave his room, where her ladyship remained in close attendance upon him. The hills and valleys were white with snow, but there was none falling, and M

ut any doctor is better than none, so this feeble little personage was

d eyes, in Lady Maulevrier's proud bearing. He said that his lordship was low, very low, and that the pulse was more irregular than he liked, but

o Langdale later in the afterno

nce upon his master - save for one half-hour only, which her ladyship passed in the parlour below, in conversation with the landlady, a very serious conversation, as indicated by Mrs. Smithson's grav

to fetch Mr. Evans, who came to the inn to find Lady Maulevrier kneeling beside her hu

ur-post bedstead, shaded by dark moreen curtains. The surgeon looked round the room, and then fumbled in his pockets for

ction showed him what had happened. The outline of the rigid figure under the coverlet

murmured Steadman, laying his hand upon the doct

hich opened the door of that other sick-r

id this

but after dark there was a difficulty in his breathing which alarmed her ladyship, and she insisted upon you being sent for. The messenger had hardly been gone a quarter of a

rise to me. I knew Lord Maulevrier was low, very low, the pulse feeble and i

ctor's ear, 'You will give the necessary certificate, I hope, with as litt

d. The body will be remov

he undertaker. He will be here very soon, no doubt, and if the shell is ready by noon to

? After

ear the dead. There is a moon, and there is no snow

n's grave, self-possessed manner answered all doubts. Mr. Evans filled in the certificate for the undertaker, drank a glass of hot brandy and water, an

Steadman's order that the carriage waited for her ladyship at an obscure side door, rather than in front of the inn. An east wind was

ood ready to assist her ladyship, there was a bustle, a confusion of dark figures on the threshold, a huddled mass of cloaks and fur wraps was lifted into the carriage, the do

sullen heights, looked back where the shadow of night enfolded them, but all along the snow-white road the

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1 Chapter 1 Penelope2 Chapter 2 Ulysses3 Chapter 3 On the Wrong Road4 Chapter 4 The Last Stage5 Chapter 5 Forty Years After6 Chapter 6 Maulevrier's Humble Friend7 Chapter 7 In the Summer Morning8 Chapter 8 There is Always a Skeleton9 Chapter 9 A Cry in the Darkness10 Chapter 10 'O Bitterness of Things Too Sweet.'11 Chapter 11 'If i Were to Do as Iseult Did.'12 Chapter 12 'The Greater Cantle of the World is Lost.'13 Chapter 13 'Since Painted or Not Painted All Shall Fade.'14 Chapter 14 'Not Yet.'15 Chapter 15 'Of All Men Else i have Avoided Thee.'16 Chapter 16 'Her Face Resigned to Bliss or Bale.'17 Chapter 17 'And the Spring Comes Slowly up this Way.'18 Chapter 18 'And Come Agen Be it by Night or Day.'19 Chapter 19 The Old Man on the Fell20 Chapter 20 Lady Maulevrier's Letter-Bag21 Chapter 21 On the Dark Brow of Helvellyn22 Chapter 22 Wiser than Lesbia23 Chapter 23 'A Young Lamb's Heart Among the Full-Grown Flocks.'24 Chapter 24 'Now Nothing Left to Love or Hate.'25 Chapter 25 Carte Blanche26 Chapter 26 'Proud Can i Never Be of what i Hate.'27 Chapter 27 Lesbia Crosses Piccadilly28 Chapter 28 'Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in Wild Disorder Seen.'29 Chapter 29 'Swift Subtle Post, Carrier of Grisly Care.'30 Chapter 30 'Roses Choked Among Thorns and Thistles.'31 Chapter 31 'Kind is My Love to-Day, to-Morrow Kind.'32 Chapter 32 Ways and Means33 Chapter 33 By Special Licence34 Chapter 34 'Our Love was New, and then but in the Spring.'35 Chapter 35 'All Fancy, Pride, and Fickle Maidenhood.'36 Chapter 36 A RastaquouèRe37 Chapter 37 Lord Hartfield Refuses a Fortune38 Chapter 38 On Board the 'Cayman.'39 Chapter 39 In Storm and Darkness40 Chapter 40 A Note of Alarm41 Chapter 41 Privileged Information42 Chapter 42 'Shall it Be'43 Chapter 43 'Alas, for Sorrow is All the End of this'44 Chapter 44 'Oh, Sad Kissed Mouth, How Sorrowful it is!'45 Chapter 45 'That Fell Arrest, Without All Bail.'46 Chapter 46 The Day of Reckoning