The Two Destinies. Wilkie Collins
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The Two Destinies
WILKIE COLLINS
The Two Destinies, Wilkie Collins,
Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck
86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9
Deutschland
ISBN: 9783849658397
www.jazzybee-verlag.de
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER I. GREENWATER BROAD... 7
CHAPTER II. TWO YOUNG HEARTS. 10
CHAPTER III. SWEDENBORG AND THE SIBYL. 17
CHAPTER IV. THE CURTAIN FALLS. 24
CHAPTER VII. THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE. 37
CHAPTER VIII. THE KINDRED SPIRITS. 43
CHAPTER IX. NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL. 51
CHAPTER X. SAINT ANTHONY’S WELL. 58
CHAPTER XI. THE LETTER OF INTRODUCTION. 64
CHAPTER XII. THE DISASTERS OF MRS. VAN BRANDT. 68
CHAPTER XIII. NOT CURED YET. 74
CHAPTER XIV. MRS. VAN BRANDT AT HOME. 80
CHAPTER XV. THE OBSTACLE BEATS ME. 86
CHAPTER XVI. MY MOTHER’S DIARY. 90
CHAPTER XVII. SHETLAND HOSPITALITY. 93
CHAPTER XVIII. THE DARKENED ROOM. 99
CHAPTER XX. THE GREEN FLAG. 109
CHAPTER XXI. SHE COMES BETWEEN US. 114
CHAPTER XXII. SHE CLAIMS ME AGAIN. 118
CHAPTER XXIV. IN THE SHADOW OF ST. PAUL’S. 132
CHAPTER XXV. I KEEP MY APPOINTMENT. 136
CHAPTER XXVI. CONVERSATION WITH MY MOTHER. 140
CHAPTER XXVII. CONVERSATION WITH MRS. VAN BRANDT. 142
CHAPTER XXVIII. LOVE AND MONEY. 147
CHAPTER XXIX. OUR DESTINIES PART US. 151
CHAPTER XXX. THE PROSPECT DARKENS. 154
CHAPTER XXXI. THE PHYSICIAN’S OPINION. 162
CHAPTER XXXII. A LAST LOOK AT GREENWATER BROAD. 167
CHAPTER XXXIII. A VISION OF THE NIGHT. 171
CHAPTER XXXIV. BY LAND AND SEA. 174
CHAPTER XXXV. UNDER THE WINDOW. 180
CHAPTER XXXVI. LOVE AND PRIDE. 183
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE TWO DESTINIES. 190
THE WIFE WRITES, AND CLOSES THE STORY. 198
The Prelude.
THE GUEST WRITES AND TELLS THE STORY OF THE DINNER PARTY.
MANY years have passed since my wife and I left the United States to pay our first visit to England.
We were provided with letters of introduction, as a matter of course. Among them there was a letter which had been written for us by my wife’s brother. It presented us to an English gentleman who held a high rank on the list of his old and valued friends.
“You will become acquainted with Mr. George Germaine,” my brother-in-law said, when we took leave of him, “at a very interesting period of his life. My last news of him tells me that he is just married. I know nothing of the lady, or of the circumstances under which my friend first met with her. But of this I am certain: married or single, George Germaine will give you and your wife a hearty welcome to England, for my sake.”
The day after our arrival in London, we left our letter of introduction at