1867.
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LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| MR. BLACK WRITES HIS PROSPECTUS | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| MRS. PIGGOTT’S ASSISTANT | [29] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| HEATHER’S DARLING | [51] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| POOR LALLY | [78] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| MR. BLACK’S TARTAR | [101] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| HOLLY BERRIES | [132] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| GONE | [155] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| MR. STEWART’S PROPOSAL | [180] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| A FEW BILLS | [201] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| HOW HEATHER TOOK IT | [231] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| LEAVING BERRIE DOWN | [265] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| NOT QUITE SATISFIED | [291] |
FAR ABOVE RUBIES
CHAPTER I.
MR. BLACK WRITES HIS PROSPECTUS.
Amidst the anxieties of making salads, the desire to convert Heather from the evils and dangers of English cookery, skirmishes with Mrs. Ormson, criticisms on Bessie, and the personal enjoyment of such luxuries as ripe fruit, coffee of her own manufacture, chocolate and claret ad libitum, Miss Hope by no means forgot Mr. Black’s commercial scheme, and the efforts she felt confident he was making to induce Arthur to embark in it with him.
A woman sharp and clever enough in her generation, she was yet no match, either in sharpness or cleverness, for Mr. Black. If she knew a few things about him, he “was up,” so he phrased it, “to two or three of her moves,” and could turn the tables on her, when she tried his temper, as is often the wise fashion of her sex, a little too much.
The very first morning she opened fire upon him, the promoter informed Arthur, he “knew what the old lady was up to.”