Diana of the Crossways — Complete
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Chapters (52)
- DIANA OF THE CROSSWAYS
- 1897
- CHAPTER I. OF DIARIES AND DIARISTS TOUCHING THE HEROINE
- CHAPTER II. AN IRISH BALL.
- CHAPTER III. THE INTERIOR OF MR. REDWORTH, AND THE EXTERIOR OF MR. SULLIVAN SMITH
- CHAPTER IV. CONTAINING HINTS OF DIANA'S EXPERIENCES AND OF WHAT THEY LED TO
- CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE SCRUPULOUS GENTLEMAN WHO CAME TOO LATE
- CHAPTER VI. THE COUPLE
- CHAPTER VII. THE CRISIS
- CHAPTER VIII. IN WHICH IS EXHIBITED HOW A PRACTICAL MAN AND A DIVINING WOMAN LEARN TO RESPECT ONE ANOTHER
- 'You see, you are my crutch,' Lady Dunstane said to him,—raising the stick in reminder of the present.
- CHAPTER IX. SHOWS HOW A POSITION OF DELICACY FOR A LADY AND GENTLEMAN WAS MET IN SIMPLE FASHION WITHOUT HURT TO EITHER
- CHAPTER X. THE CONFLICT OF THE NIGHT
- Her brain was a steam-wheel throughout the night; everything that could be thought of was tossed, nothing grasped.
- CHAPTER XI. RECOUNTS THE JOURNEY IN A CHARIOT, WITH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DIALOGUE, AND A SMALL INCIDENT ON THE ROAD
- CHAPTER XII. BETWEEN EMMA AND DIANA
- CHAPTER XIII. TOUCHING THE FIRST DAYS OF HER PROBATION
- CHAPTER XIV. GIVING GLIMPSES OF DIANA UNDER HER CLOUD BEFORE THE WORLD AND OF HER FURTHER APPRENTICESHIP
- CHAPTER XV. INTRODUCES THE HON. PERCY DACIER
- CHAPTER XVI. TREATS OF A MIDNIGHT BELL, AND OF A SCENE OF EARLY MORNING
- CHAPTER XVII. 'THE PRINCESS EGERIA'
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE AUTHORESS
- CHAPTER XIX. A DRIVE IN SUNLIGHT AND A DRIVE IN MOONLIGHT
- The fatal time to come for her was in the Summer of that year.
- CHAPTER XX. DIANA A NIGHT-WATCH IN THE CHAMBER OF DEATH
- He stepped into the room, and thrilled to hear the quiet voice beside the bed: 'Who is it?'
- CHAPTER XXI. 'THE YOUNG MINISTER OF STATE'
- CHAPTER XXII. BETWEEN DIANA AND DACIER: THE WIND EAST OVER BLEAK LAND
- CHAPTER XXIII. RECORDS A VISIT TO DIANA FROM ONE OF THE WORLD'S GOOD WOMEN
- CHAPTER XXIV. INDICATES A SOUL PREPARED FOR DESPERATION
- CHAPTER XXV. ONCE MORE THE CROSSWAYS AND A CHANGE OF TURNINGS
- CHAPTER XXVI. IN WHICH A DISAPPOINTED LOVER RECEIVES A MULTITUDE OF LESSONS
- CHAPTER XXVII. CONTAINS MATTER FOR SUBSEQUENT EXPLOSION
- CHAPTER XXVIII. DIALOGUE ROUND THE SUBJECT OF A PORTRAIT, WITH SOME INDICATIONS OF THE TASK FOR DIANA
- CHAPTER XXIX. SHOWS THE APPROACHES OF THE POLITICAL AND THE DOMESTIC CRISIS IN COMPANY
- CHAPTER XXX. IN WHICH THERE IS A TASTE OF A LITTLE DINNER AND AN AFTERTASTE
- CHAPTER XXXI. A CHAPTER CONTAINING GREAT POLITICAL NEWS AND THEREWITH AN INTRUSION OF THE LOVE-GOD
- Dacier was pacing about the drawing-room, as in a place too narrow for him.
- CHAPTER XXXII. WHEREIN WE BEHOLD A GIDDY TURN AT THE SPECTRAL CROSSWAYS
- Danvers accompanied Mr. Dacier to the house-door. Climbing the stairs, she found her mistress in the drawing-room still.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. EXHIBITS THE SPRINGING OF A MINE IN A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
- CHAPTER XXXIV. IN WHICH IT IS DARKLY SEEN HOW THE CRIMINAL'S JUDGE MAY BE LOVE'S CRIMINAL.
- CHAPTER XXXV. REVEALS HOW THE TRUE HEROINE OF ROMANCE COMES FINALLY TO HER, TIME OF TRIUMPH
- CHAPTER XXXVI. IS CONCLUSIVE AS TO THE HEARTLESSNESS OF WOMEN WITH BRAINS
- CHAPTER XXXVII. AN EXHIBITION OF SOME CHAMPIONS OF THE STRICKEN LADY
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. CONVALESCENCE OF A HEALTHY MIND DISTRAUGHT
- CHAPTER XXXIX. OF NATURE WITH ONE OF HER CULTIVATED DAUGHTERS AND A SHORT EXCURSION IN ANTI-CLIMAX
- CHAPTER XL. IN WHICH WE SEE NATURE MAKING OF A WOMAN A MAID AGAIN, AND A THRICE WHIMSICAL
- Gradually the enthusiasm of the booth and bystanders converted the flying of a leather ball into a subject of honourable excitement.
- CHAPTER XLI. CONTAINS A REVELATION OF THE ORIGIN OF THE TIGRESS IN DIANA
- CHAPTER XLII. THE PENULTIMATE: SHOWING A FINAL STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY AND RUN INTO HARNESS
- CHAPTER XLIII. NUPTIAL CHAPTER; AND OF HOW A BARELY WILLING WOMAN WAS LED TO BLOOM WITH THE NUPTIAL SENTIMENT
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