Chapter I: Front Matter

A STRANGE WORLD

A Novel

BY THE AUTHOR OF

‘LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET’

ETC. ETC. ETC.

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOL. II.

LONDON
JOHN MAXWELL AND CO.

4, SHOE LANE, FLEET STREET

1875

[All rights reserved.]

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CONTENTS TO VOL. II.

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CHAP. PAGE

I. ‘FAREWELL,’ QUOTH SHE, ‘AND COME 1
AGAIN TO-MORROW’

II. ‘O’ER ALL THERE HUNG A SHADOW AND A 16
FEAR’

III. ‘HE COMETH NOT,’ SHE SAID 26

IV. ‘AND I SHALL BE ALONE UNTIL I DIE’ 53

V. ‘SURELY, MOST BITTER OF ALL SWEET 67
THINGS THOU ART’

VI. ‘WE ARE PAST THE SEASON OF DIVIDED 83
ILLS’

VII. ‘THE DROWSY NIGHT GROWS ON THE 100
WORLD’

VIII. ‘GOOD NIGHT, GOOD REST. AH! NEITHER 107
BE MY SHARE’

IX. ‘SUCH A LORD IS LOVE’ 121

X. ‘THEN STREAMED LIFE’S FUTURE ON THE 134
FADING PAST’

XI. ‘A MERRIER HOUR WAS NEVER WASTED 158
THERE’

XII. ‘IT WAS THE HOUR WHEN WOODS ARE 165
COLD’

XIII. ‘NOW HALF TO THE SETTING MOON HAVE 182
GONE, AND HALF TO THE RISING DAY’

XIV. ‘O HEAVEN! THAT ONE MIGHT READ THE 201
BOOK OF FATE!’

XV. ‘QUI PEUT SOUS LE SOLEIL TROMPER SA 209
DESTINEE?’

XVI. ‘THIS IS MORE STRANGE THAN SUCH A 225
MURDER IS’

XVII. ‘AH, LOVE, THERE IS NO BETTER LIFE 235
THAN THIS’

XVIII. ‘LOVE IS A THING TO WHICH WE SOON 251
CONSENT’

XIX. SORROW AUGMENTETH THE MALADY 265

XX. ‘BUT OH! THE THORNS WE STAND UPON!’ 281

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A STRANGE WORLD