From One Generation to Another
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Before attempting to investigate the origin of this mistake, I hasten to write to you, knowing, dearest, what a shock this must have been to you. It is true that I was in the Makar Akool affair, and was slightly wounded -- a mere scratch in the arm -- but nothing more. I have not written to you for some months past because I have been turning something over in my mind. Anna, dearest, there is no chance of my being in a position to marry for some years yet, and I feel it incumbent upon me . . ." This letter, half written, lay on a camp table before a keen-faced young officer. He ceased writing ...
Chapters (49)
- FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER
- FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER
- CHAPTER I. THE SEED
- CHAPTER II. SUBURBAN
- CHAPTER III. MERCURY
- The evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet come.
- CHAPTER IV. FREIGHTED
- CHAPTER V. AFTER NINETEEN YEARS
- A sharp judgment shall be to them that be in high places.
- CHAPTER VI. FOR HIS COUNTRY
- CHAPTER VII. ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD
- The more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people.
- CHAPTER VIII. RELIEVED
- Well waited is well done.
- CHAPTER IX. RE-CAST
- CHAPTER X. A LAST THROW
- CHAPTER XI. A CARPET KNIGHT
- As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
- CHAPTER XII. BAD NEWS
- Sa manière de souffrir est le témoignage qu'une âme porte sur elle-même.
- CHAPTER XIII. ON THIN ICE
- CHAPTER XIV. THE CURSE OF A GOOD INTENTION
- There is one that keepeth silence and is found wise.
- CHAPTER XV. THE TOUCH OF NATURE
- CHAPTER XVI. THE SPIDER AND THE FLY
- CHAPTER XVII. TWO MOTIVES
- CHAPTER XVIII. LIKE SHIPS UPON THE SEA
- Be as one that knoweth, and yet holdeth his tongue.
- CHAPTER XIX. AT HURLINGHGAM
- I must be cruel only to be kind.
- CHAPTER XX. IN A SIDE PATH
- CHAPTER XXI. ALONE
- The name of the slough was Despond.
- CHAPTER XXII. ACROSS THE YEARS
- Across the years you seem to come.
- CHAPTER XXIII. AND THE TIME PASSES SOMEHOW
- His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
- CHAPTER XXIV. A STAB IN THE DARK
- CHAPTER XXV. FROM THE JAWS OF DEATH
- When the heart speaks, Glory itself is an illusion.
- CHAPTER XXVI. BALANCING ACCOUNTS
- And yet God has not said a word.
- CHAPTER XXVII. AT BAY
- “ANNA AGAR.”
- CHAPTER XXVIII. THE LAST LINK
- A thing hereditary in the race comes unawares.
- CHAPTER XXIX. SETTLED
- For love in sequel works with fate.
- THE END
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