tion>E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Tempting of Tavernake
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066233433
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. DESPAIR AND INTEREST
CHAPTER II. A TETE-A-TETE SUPPER
CHAPTER III. AN UNPLEASANT MEETING
CHAPTER IV. BREAKFAST WITH BEATRICE
CHAPTER V. INTRODUCING Mrs. WENHAM GARDNER
CHAPTER VI. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
CHAPTER VII. Mr. PRITCHARD OF NEW YORK
CHAPTER XI. A BEWILDERING OFFER
CHAPTER XII. TAVERNAKE BLUNDERS
CHAPTER XIV. A WARNING FROM Mr. PRITCHARD
CHAPTER, XV. GENERAL DISCONTENT
CHAPTER XVI. AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XVII. THE BALCONY AT IMANO'S
CHAPTER XVIII. A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XIX. TAVERNAKE INTERVENES
CHAPTER XX. A PLEASANT REUNION
CHAPTER XXI. SOME EXCELLENT ADVICE
CHAPTER XXII. DINNER WITH ELIZABETH
CHAPTER XXIII. ON AN ERRAND OF CHIVALRY
CHAPTER XXIV. CLOSE TO TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XXVII. TAVERNAKE CHOOSES
CHAPTER IV. PRITCHARD'S GOOD NEWS
CHAPTER VI. UNDERSTANDING COMES TOO LATE
CHAPTER VII. IN A VIRGIN COUNTRY
CHAPTER VIII. BACK TO CIVILIZATION
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I. DESPAIR AND INTEREST
They stood upon the roof of a London boarding-house in the neighborhood of Russell Square—one of those grim shelters, the refuge of Transatlantic curiosity and British penury. The girl—she represented the former race was leaning against the frail palisading, with gloomy expression and eyes set as though in fixed contemplation of the uninspiring panorama. The young man—unmistakably, uncompromisingly English—stood with his back to the chimney
