Armorel of Lyonesse. Walter Besant

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       Walter Besant

      Armorel of Lyonesse

      A Romance of To-day

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066218751

Table of Contents

       PART I CHAPTER I THE CHILD OF SAMSON

       CHAPTER II PRESENTED BY THE SEA

       CHAPTER III IN THE BAR PARLOUR

       CHAPTER IV THE GOLDEN TORQUE

       CHAPTER V THE ENCHANTED ISLAND

       CHAPTER VI THE FLOWER-FARM

       CHAPTER VII A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

       CHAPTER VIII THE VOYAGERS

       CHAPTER IX THE LAST DAY BUT ONE

       CHAPTER X MR. FLETCHER RETURNS FOR HIS BAG

       CHAPTER XI ROLAND'S LETTER

       CHAPTER XII THE CHANGE

       CHAPTER XIII ARMOREL'S INHERITANCE

       PART II CHAPTER I SWEET COZ

       CHAPTER II THE SONATA

       CHAPTER III THE CLEVEREST MAN IN LONDON

       CHAPTER IV MASTER OF ALL THE ARTS

       CHAPTER V ONLY A SIMPLE SERVICE

       CHAPTER VI THE OTHER STUDIO

       CHAPTER VII A CANDID OPINION

       CHAPTER VIII ALL ABOUT MYSELF

       CHAPTER IX TO MAKE HIM HAPPY

       CHAPTER X THE SECRET OF THE TWO PICTURES

       CHAPTER XI A CRITIC ON TRUTH

       CHAPTER XII TO MAKE THAT PROMISE SURE

       CHAPTER XIII THE DRAMATIST

       CHAPTER XIV AN HONOURABLE PROPOSAL

       CHAPTER XV NOT TWO MEN, BUT ONE

       CHAPTER XVI THE PLAY AND THE COMEDY

       CHAPTER XVII THE NATIONAL GALLERY

       CHAPTER XVIII CONGRATULATIONS

       CHAPTER XIX WHAT NEXT?

       CHAPTER XX A RECOVERY AND A FLIGHT

       CHAPTER XXI ALL LOST BUT——

       CHAPTER XXII THE END OF WORLDLY TROUBLES

       CHAPTER XXIII THE HOUR OF TRIUMPH

       CHAPTER XXIV THE CUP AND THE LIP

       CHAPTER XXV TO FORGET IT ALL

       CHAPTER XXVI NOT THE HEIR, AFTER ALL

       CHAPTER XXVII THE DESERT ISLAND

       CHAPTER XXVIII AT HOME

       CHAPTER XXIX THE TRESPASS OFFERING

      ARMOREL OF LYONESSE

PART I CHAPTER I THE CHILD OF SAMSON

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      It was the evening of a fine September day. Through the square window, built out so as to form another room almost as large as that which had been thus enlarged, the autumn sun, now fast declining to the west, poured in warm and strong; but not too warm or too strong for the girl on whose head it fell as she sat leaning back in the low chair, her face turned towards the window. The sun of Scilly is never too fierce or too burning in summer, nor in winter does it ever lose its force; in July, when the people of the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland venture not forth into the glare of the sun, here the soft sea mists and the strong sea air temper the heat; and in December the sun still shines with a lingering warmth, as if he loved the place. This girl lived in the sunshine all the year round; rowed in it; lay in it; basked in it bare-headed, summer and winter; in the winter she would sit sheltered from the wind in some warm corner of the rocks; in summer she would lie on the hillside or stand upon the high headlands and the sea-beat crags, while the breezes, which