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FATHER BENWELL’S CORRESPONDENCE. I. To Mr. Bitrake. Private and Confidential. SIR—I understand that your connection with the law does not exclude your occasional superintendence of confidential inq…
STELLA ASSERTS HERSELF. Two days after Father Benwell had posted his letter to Rome, Lady Loring entered her husband’s study, and asked eagerly if he had heard any news of Romayne. Lord Loring shoo…
THE GENERAL’S FAMILY. NOT always remarkable for arriving at just conclusions, Lady Loring had drawn the right inference this time. Stella had stopped the first cab that passed her, and had directed …
FATHER BENWELL’S CORRESPONDENCE. I. Arthur Penrose to Father Benwell. REVEREND AND DEAR FATHER—When I last had the honor of seeing you, I received your instructions to report, by letter, the result…
THE SANDWICH DANCE. A FINE spring, after a winter of unusual severity, promised well for the prospects of the London season. Among the social entertainments of the time, general curiosity was excit…
THE QUESTION OF MARRIAGE. As Stella answered Lady Loring, she was smartly tapped on the shoulder by an eager guest with a fan. The guest was a very little woman, with twinkling eyes and a perpetual…
THE END OF THE BALL. THE priest’s long journey did not appear to have fatigued him. He was as cheerful and as polite as ever—and so paternally attentive to Stella that it was quite impossible for he…
IN THE SMALL HOURS. WHEN Stella left the conservatory, the attraction of the ball for Romayne was at an end. He went back to his rooms at the hotel. Penrose was waiting to speak to him. Romayne not…
THE HONEYMOON. MORE than six weeks had passed. The wedded lovers were still enjoying their honeymoon at Vange Abbey. Some offense had been given, not only to Mrs. Eyrecourt, but to friends of her w…
EVENTS AT TEN ACRES. THERE was no obstacle to the speedy departure of Romayne and his wife from Vange Abbey. The villa at Highgate—called Ten Acres Lodge, in allusion to the measurement of the groun…
