A STRANGE WORLD
A Novel
BY THE AUTHOR OF
'LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET'
ETC. ETC. ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. I.
LONDON
JOHN MAXWELL AND CO.
4, SHOE LANE, FLEET STREET
1875.
[All rights reserved.]
CONTENTS TO VOL. I.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| i. | Poor Players | [1] |
| ii. | Behind the Scenes | [32] |
| iii. | Eveillons le plaisir, son aurore est la nuit | [49] |
| iv. | 'Love's a mighty lord' | [64] |
| v. | 'Il ne faut pas pousser au bout les malheureux' | [80] |
| vi. | 'There is no life on earth but being in love' | [93] |
| vii. | 'Let the world slip; we shall ne'er be younger' | [105] |
| viii. | 'Have the high gods anything left to give?' | [123] |
| ix. | 'Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out' | [140] |
| x. | 'Nothing comes amiss, so money come withal' | [155] |
| xi. | 'What, then, you knew not this red work indeed?' | [179] |
| xii. | 'Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves' | [186] |
| xiii. | 'My love, my love, and no love for me' | [201] |
| xiv. | 'Truth is truth, to the end of time' | [217] |
| xv. | 'They shall pass, and their places be taken' | [233] |
| xvi. | 'There is a history in all men's lives' | [244] |
| xvii. | 'Death could not sever my soul and you' | [253] |
| xviii. | 'What great ones do, the less will prattle of' | [271] |
A STRANGE WORLD