The Secret Places of the Heart
by H. G. Wells
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The maid was a young woman of great natural calmness; she was accustomed to let in visitors who had this air of being annoyed and finding one umbrella too numerous for them. It mattered nothing to her that the gentleman was asking for Dr. Martineau as if he was asking for something with an unpleasant taste. Almost imperceptibly she relieved him of his umbrella and juggled his hat and coat on to a massive mahogany stand. "What name, Sir?" she asked, holding open the door of the consulting room. "Hardy," said the gentleman, and then yielding it reluctantly with its distasteful three-year-old hon...
Chapters (75)(click to expand)
- THE SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART
- 1922
- THE SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART
- CHAPTER THE FIRST
- THE CONSULTATION
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- CHAPTER THE SECOND
- LADY HARDY
- CHAPTER THE THIRD
- THE DEPARTURE
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- CHAPTER THE FOURTH
- AT MAIDENHEAD
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- After a meditative silence the doctor became briskly professional again.
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Section 8
- CHAPTER THE FIFTH
- IN THE LAND OF THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLES
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- CHAPTER THE SIXTH
- THE ENCOUNTER AT STONEHENGE
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- Section 6
- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
- COMPANIONSHIP
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Section 8
- Section 9
- Section 10
- Section 11
- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH
- FULL MOON
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4.
- Section 5
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Section 8.
- CHAPTER THE NINTH
- THE LAST DAYS OF SIR RICHMOND HARDY
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Section 8
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