Fenton's Quest
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CONTENTS
A warm summer evening, with a sultry haze brooding over the level landscape, and a Sabbath stillness upon all things in the village of Lidford, Midlandshire. In the remoter corners of the old gothic church the shadows are beginning to gather, as the sermon draws near its close; but in the centre aisle and about the pulpit there is broad daylight still shining-in from the wide western window, across the lower half of which there are tall figures of the Evangelists in old stained glass.
M. E. Braddon
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FENTON'S QUEST
THE AUTHOR OF
"LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET," "AURORA FLOYD"
ETC. ETC. ETC.
CHEAP UNIFORM EDITION OF MISS BRADDON'S NOVELS.
MISS BRADDON'S NOVELS
INCLUDING
LONDON: J. AND B. MAXWELL,
CHAPTER I
THE COMMON FEVER
CHAPTER II
MARIAN'S STORY
CHAPTER III
ACCEPTED
CHAPTER IV
JOHN SALTRAM
CHAPTER V
HALCYON DAYS
CHAPTER VI
SENTENCE OF EXILE
CHAPTER VII
"GOOD-BYE"
CHAPTER VIII
MISSING
CHAPTER IX
JOHN SALTRAM'S ADVICE
CHAPTER X
JACOB NOWELL
CHAPTER XI
THE MARRIAGE AT WYGROVE
CHAPTER XII
A FRIENDLY COUNSELLOR
CHAPTER XIII
MRS. PALLINSON HAS VIEWS
CHAPTER XIV
FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER XV
ON THE TRACK
CHAPTER XVI
FACE TO FACE
CHAPTER XVII
MISS CARLEY'S ADMIRERS
CHAPTER XVIII
JACOB NOWELL'S WILL
CHAPTER XIX
GILBERT ASKS A QUESTION
CHAPTER XX
DRIFTING AWAY
CHAPTER XXI
FATHER AND DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XXII
AT LIDFORD AGAIN
CHAPTER XXIII
CALLED TO ACCOUNT
CHAPTER XXIV
TORMENTED BY DOUBT
CHAPTER XXV
MISSING AGAIN
CHAPTER XXVI
IN BONDAGE
CHAPTER XXVII
ONLY A WOMAN
AT FAULT
CHAPTER XXIX
BAFFLED, NOT BEATEN
CHAPTER XXX
STRICKEN DOWN
CHAPTER XXXI
ELLEN CARLEY'S TRIALS
CHAPTER XXXII
THE PADLOCKED DOOR AT WYNCOMB
CHAPTER XXXIII
"WHAT MUST BE SHALL BE"
CHAPTER XXXIV
DOUBTFUL INFORMATION
CHAPTER XXXV
BOUGHT WITH A PRICE
CHAPTER XXXVI
COMING ROUND
CHAPTER XXXVII
A FULL CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXXVIII
AN ILL-OMENED WEDDING
CHAPTER XXXIX
A DOMESTIC MYSTERY
CHAPTER XL
IN PURSUIT
CHAPTER XLI
OUTWARD BOUND
CHAPTER XLII
THE PLEASURES OF WYNCOMB
CHAPTER XLIII
MR. WHITELAW MAKES AN END OF THE MYSTERY
CHAPTER XLIV
AFTER THE FIRE
CHAPTER XLV
MR. WHITELAW MAKES HIS WILL
CHAPTER XLVI
ELLEN REGAINS HER LIBERTY
CHAPTER XLVII
CLOSING SCENES