Max Pemberton
The Lady Evelyn
A Story of To-day
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4064066159177
Table of Contents
THE ESCAPADE
THE ENGLISHMAN
THE LIGHT
"She was aware instantly that the strangers were speaking of her" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Frontispiece
"Oh, please let me go; your hands hurt me"
"As you came in folly, so shall you go——"
"Evelyn, beloved, I am here as you wish"
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THE LADY EVELYN
PROLOGUE
THE FACE IN THE RIVER
The porter did not know; the station-master was not sure; but both were agreed that it was a "good step to the 'all"—by which they signified the Derbyshire mansion of the third Earl of Melbourne.
"Might be you'd get a cab, might be you wouldn't," said the porter somewhat loftily—for here was a passenger who had spoken of walking over: "that'll depend on Jacob Price and the beer he's drunk this night. Some nights he can drive a man and some nights he can't. I'm not here to speak for him more than any other."
The station-master, who had been giving the whole weight of his intelligence to a brown paper parcel with no address upon it,