LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18 CATHERINE ST., STRAND.
1870.
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LONDON:
ROBSON AND SONS, PRINTERS, PANCRAS ROAD, N.W.
CONTENTS OF VOL. I. | |
| CHAP. | |
| [I.] | Homeward bound. |
| [II.] | Pages from the Past. |
| [III.] | Discomfiture. |
| [IV.] | The Ideal and the Real. |
| [V.] | Chayleigh. |
| [VI.] | Half-confidences. |
| [VII.] | The old familiar Faces. |
| [VIII.] | Mrs. Carteret is congratulated. |
| [IX.] | What the Woman meant. |
| [X.] | The Letter from Melbourne. |
| [XI.] | Fools' Paradise. |
| [XII.] | Dawning. |
A RIGHTED WRONG.
[CHAPTER I.]
HOMEWARD BOUND.
"Good-bye, again; good-bye!"
"Good-bye, my dear; perhaps not for ever, though: I may make my way back to the old country once more. You will tell my old friend I kept my word to him:" and then the speaker kissed the woman to whom he addressed these parting words tenderly, went quickly away, and was hidden from her in a moment by all the bewildering confusion of "board ship" at the hour of sailing.
He had not waited for words in reply to his farewell; she could not have spoken them, and he knew it; and while she tried to make out his figure among the groups upon the deck, formed of those who were about to set forth upon the long perilous ocean voyage, and those who had come to bid them good-bye, some with hearts full of agony, a few careless and gay enough, a suffocating silence held her.