The Man. Брэм Стокер
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Bram Stoker
The Man
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664654564
Table of Contents
CHAPTER II—THE HEART OF A CHILD
CHAPTER IV—HAROLD AT NORMANSTAND
CHAPTER VII—THE NEED OF KNOWING
CHAPTER XV—THE END OF THE MEETING
CHAPTER XVI—A PRIVATE CONVERSATION
CHAPTER XVII—A BUSINESS TRANSACTION
CHAPTER XXI—THE DUTY OF COURTESY
CHAPTER XXII—FIXING THE BOUNDS
CHAPTER XXV—A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD
CHAPTER XXX—THE LESSON OF THE WILDERNESS
CHAPTER XXXII—‘TO BE GOD AND ABLE TO DO THINGS’
CHAPTER XXXIII—THE QUEEN’S ROOM
CHAPTER I—STEPHEN
Stephen Norman of Normanstand had remained a bachelor until close on middle age, when the fact took hold of him that there was no immediate heir to his great estate. Whereupon, with his wonted decision, he set about looking for a wife.
He had been a close friend of his next neighbour, Squire Rowly, ever since their college days. They had, of course, been often in each other’s houses, and Rowly’s young sister—almost a generation younger than himself, and the sole fruit of his father’s second marriage—had been like a little sister to him too. She had, in the twenty years which had elapsed, grown to be a sweet and beautiful young woman. In all the past years, with the constant opportunity which friendship gave of close companionship, the feeling never altered. Squire Norman would have been surprised had he been asked to describe Margaret Rowly and found himself compelled to present the picture of a woman, not a child.
Now, however, when his thoughts went womanward and wifeward, he awoke to the fact that Margaret