Blind Love
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Excerpt: SOON after sunrise, on a cloudy morning in the year 1881, a special messenger disturbed the repose of Dennis Howmore, at his place of residence in the pleasant Irish town of Ardoon. br/Well acquainted apparently with the way upstairs, the man thumped on a bed-room door, and shouted his message through it: "The master wants you, and mind you don't keep him waiting." br/The person sending this peremptory message was Sir Giles Mountjoy of Ardoon, knight and banker. The person receiving the message was Sir Giles's head clerk. As a matter of course, Dennis Howmore dressed himself at full s...
Chapters (92)
- Blind Love
- Wilkie Collins (completed by Walter Besant)
- CONTENTS
- FIRST PERIOD
- THE SECOND PERIOD
- THE THIRD PERIOD
- PREFACE
- BLIND LOVE
- THE PROLOGUE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- IX
- THE END OF THE PROLOGUE
- THE STORY
- FIRST PERIOD
- CHAPTER I THE SOUR FRENCH WINE
- CHAPTER II THE MAN SHE REFUSED
- CHAPTER III THE REGISTERED PACKET
- CHAPTER IV THE GAME: MOUNTJOY LOSES
- CHAPTER V THE GAME: MOUNTJOY PLAYS A NEW CARD
- CHAPTER VI THE GAME: MOUNTJOY WINS
- CHAPTER VII DOCTORING THE DOCTOR
- CHAPTER VIII HER FATHER'S MESSAGE
- CHAPTER IX MR. VIMPANY ON INTOXICATION
- CHAPTER X THE MOCKERY OF DECEIT
- CHAPTER XI MRS. VIMPANY'S FAREWELL
- CHAPTER XII LORD HARRY's DEFENCE
- THE END OF THE FIRST PERIOD
- THE SECOND PERIOD
- CHAPTER XIII IRIS AT HOME
- CHAPTER XIV THE LADY'S MAID
- CHAPTER XV MR. HENLEY'S TEMPER
- CHAPTER XVI THE DOCTOR IN FULL DRESS
- CHAPTER XVII ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH
- CHAPTER XVIII PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE
- CHAPTER XIX MR. HENLEY AT HOME
- CHAPTER XX FIRST SUSPICIONS OF IRIS
- CHAPTER XXI THE PARTING SCENE
- CHAPTER XXII THE FATAL WORDS
- THE END OF THE SECOND PERIOD
- THIRD PERIOD
- CHAPTER XXIII NEWS OF IRIS
- CHAPTER XXIV LORD HARRY'S HONEYMOON
- CHAPTER XXV THE DOCTOR IN DIFFICULTIES
- CHAPTER XXVI LONDON AND PARIS
- CHAPTER XXVII THE BRIDE AT HOME
- CHAPTER XXVIII THE MAID AND THE KEYHOLE
- CHAPTER XXIX THE CONQUEST OF MR. VIMPANY
- CHAPTER XXX SAXON AND CELT
- CHAPTER XXXI THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS
- CHAPTER XXXII GOOD-BYE TO IRIS
- CHAPTER XXXIII THE DECREE OF FATE
- CHAPTER XXXIV MY LORD'S MIND
- CHAPTER XXXV MY LADY'S MIND
- CHAPTER XXXVI THE DOCTOR MEANS MISCHIEF
- CHAPTER XXXVII THE FIRST QUARREL
- CHAPTER XXXVIII ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS
- CHAPTER XXXIX THE MYSTERY OF THE HOSPITAL
- CHAPTER XL DIRE NECESSITY
- CHAPTER XLI THE MAN IS FOUND.
- CHAPTER XLII THE METTLESOME MAID
- CHAPTER XLIII FICTION: ATTEMPTED BY MY LORD
- CHAPTER XLIV FICTION: IMPROVED BY THE DOCTOR
- CHAPTER XLV FACT: RELATED BY FANNY
- CHAPTER XLVI MAN AND WIFE
- CHAPTER XLVII THE PATIENT AND MY LORD
- CHAPTER XLVIII "THE MISTRESS AND THE MAID"
- CHAPTER XLIX THE NURSE IS SENT AWAY
- CHAPTER L IN THE ALCOVE
- CHAPTER LI WHAT NEXT?
- CHAPTER LII THE DEAD MAN'S PHOTOGRAPH
- CHAPTER LIII THE WIFE'S RETURN
- CHAPTER LIV ANOTHER STEP
- CHAPTER LV THE ADVENTURES OF A FAITHFUL MAID
- CHAPTER LVI FANNY'S NARRATIVE
- CHAPTER LVII AT LOUVAIN
- CHAPTER LVIII OF COURSE THEY WILL PAY
- CHAPTER LIX THE CONSEQUENCES OF AN ADVERTISEMENT
- CHAPTER LX ON THE EVE OF A CHANGE
- CHAPTER LXI THE LAST DISCOVERY
- CHAPTER LXII THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
- CHAPTER LXIII A REFUGE
- CHAPTER LXIV THE INVINCIBLES
- EPILOGUE
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