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Desperate Remedies

Desperate Remedies

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Chapter 1 36

Word Count: 1086    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

orthy of record some experiences of Cytherea Graye, Edward Springrove, and

and town of Hocbridge, to the north of Christminster, went to London to spend the Christmas holidays with a friend who lived in B

ch, exercised on homeliness, was humour; on nature, picturesqueness; o

discover evil in a new friend is to most people only a

lived in a street not far from Russell Square. Though they were in no more than comfortable circumstances, the captain's wife

girls of that type of beauty, except in one respect. She was perfect in her manner and bearing, and they were not. A mere distinguishing peculiarity, by catching the eye, is often read as the pervading characteristic,

d having few friends (for their equals in blood were their superiors in position), he was received on very generous terms. His passion for Cytherea grew not only strong, but ineffably exalted: she, without positively encouraging him, tacitly assented to his scheme

ks of sweet experience, he had arrived at the last stage-a kind of moral Gaza-before plunging into an emotiona

irst to last she had repressed all recognition of the true nature of the thread which drew them together, blinding herself to its meaning and only natural tendency, and appearing to

ing. He took her into a little conservatory on the landing, and there among the evergreens, by the light of a few tiny lamps,

darling, b

now!' she faltered, in a voice of anguish. 'I will w

xt morning. Who shall express his misery and wonder wh

hing divides us eternally. Forgive me-I should have told

ter of entreaty could wring from her any explanation. She begged him not to follow her, and the most bewildering point was that her father and mother appeared, from the tone of a letter Graye re

een some prior flirtation between Cytherea and her cousin, an officer of the line, two or three years before Graye met her, which had suddenly been terminated by the cousin's departure for India, and the young lady's travelling on the Continent with her parents the whole of the ensuing summer, on account of delicate health. Eventually Huntway said t

therea had forgotten him and his

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1 Chapter 1 362 Chapter 2 FROM 1843 TO 18613 Chapter 3 OCTOBER THE TWELFTH, 18634 Chapter 4 OCTOBER THE NINETEENTH5 Chapter 5 THE NINTH OF JULY6 Chapter 6 JULY THE ELEVENTH7 Chapter 7 FROM THE TWELFTH TO THE FIFTEENTH OF JULY8 Chapter 8 SECOND TO THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF JULY9 Chapter 9 TILL FOUR O'CLOCK10 Chapter 10 MORNING AND AFTERNOON11 Chapter 11 EVENING12 Chapter 12 ONE TO TWO O'CLOCK A.M.13 Chapter 13 M.14 Chapter 14 PAST SEVEN TO TEN O'CLOCK A.M.15 Chapter 15 AUGUST THE SEVENTEENTH16 Chapter 16 AUGUST THE TWENTIETH17 Chapter 17 FIFTH18 Chapter 18 SIXTH TO SEPTEMBER THE FIRST19 Chapter 19 FROM THE THIRD TO THE NINETEENTH OF SEPTEMBER20 Chapter 20 THREE TO FOUR P.M.21 Chapter 21 M. No.2122 Chapter 22 M. No.2223 Chapter 23 FIRST TO THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER24 Chapter 24 NOVEMBER THE EIGHTEENTH25 Chapter 25 DAYBREAK26 Chapter 26 M. No.2627 Chapter 27 NOVEMBER THE TWENTIETH28 Chapter 28 FIRST29 Chapter 29 EIGHTH. UNTIL TEN P.M.30 Chapter 30 PAST ELEVEN P.M.31 Chapter 31 PAST ELEVEN TO TWELVE P.M.32 Chapter 32 M. No.3233 Chapter 33 MIDNIGHT34 Chapter 34 PAST TWELVE TO ONE A.M.35 Chapter 35 NINTH36 Chapter 36 NINTH TO DECEMBER THE SECOND37 Chapter 37 AFTERNOON38 Chapter 38 DECEMBER THE THIRD39 Chapter 39 DECEMBER THE FOURTH40 Chapter 40 DECEMBER TO APRIL41 Chapter 41 THE THIRD OF MAY42 Chapter 42 FIRST OF JUNE43 Chapter 43 FIRST OF JUNE TO THE END OF JULY44 Chapter 44 SEVENTH OF AUGUST45 Chapter 45 SEVENTH OF AUGUST No.4546 Chapter 46 THE EARLY PART OF SEPTEMBER47 Chapter 47 THE TENTH OF SEPTEMBER48 Chapter 48 BEFORE DAWN49 Chapter 49 MORNING50 Chapter 50 NOON51 Chapter 51 AFTERNOON No.5152 Chapter 52 PAST TWO TO FIVE O'CLOCK P.M.53 Chapter 53 M. No.5354 Chapter 54 PAST EIGHT O'CLOCK P.M.55 Chapter 55 PAST EIGHT O'CLOCK P.M. No.5556 Chapter 56 PAST EIGHT TO ELEVEN P.M.57 Chapter 57 FROM THE SIXTH TO THE THIRTEENTH OF JANUARY58 Chapter 58 FROM THE EIGHTEENTH TO THE END OF JANUARY59 Chapter 59 THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY60 Chapter 60 FROM THE TWELFTH OF FEBRUARY TO THE SECOND OF MARCH61 Chapter 61 THE THIRD OF MARCH62 Chapter 62 MARCH THE SIXTH63 Chapter 63 MARCH THE TENTH64 Chapter 64 MARCH THE ELEVENTH65 Chapter 65 THREE TO SIX O'CLOCK A.M.66 Chapter 66 M. No.6667 Chapter 67 MARCH THE EIGHTEENTH68 Chapter 68 SIX TO NINE O'CLOCK P.M.69 Chapter 69 FIRST. MORNING70 Chapter 70 AFTERNOON No.7071 Chapter 71 M. No.7172 Chapter 72 M. No.7273 Chapter 73 No.7374 Chapter 74 THIRD. MIDDAY75 Chapter 75 NINTH. NOON76 Chapter 76 M. No.7677 Chapter 77 M. No.7778 Chapter 78 DAYBREAK No.78