Chapter I: Front Matter

POPULAR NOVELS

BY

_MRS. MARY J. HOLMES_.

TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE.
ENGLISH ORPHANS.
HOMESTEAD ON HILLSIDE.
’LENA RIVERS.
MEADOW BROOK.
DORA DEANE.
COUSIN MAUDE.
MARIAN GREY.
EDITH LYLE.
DAISY THORNTON (_New_).
DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT.
HUGH WORTHINGTON.
CAMERON PRIDE.
ROSE MATHER.
ETHELYN’S MISTAKE.
MILLBANK.
EDNA BROWNING.
WEST LAWN.
MILDRED.
FORREST HOUSE (_New_).

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are always entertaining, and she has the rare faculty of enlisting the
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FORREST HOUSE.
A Novel.

BY
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES,

AUTHOR OF

TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE.—’LENA RIVERS.—DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT.—MARIAN
GREY.—ENGLISH ORPHANS.—HUGH WORTHINGTON.—MILLBANK.—ETHELYN’S
MISTAKE.—EDNA BROWNING, ETC., ETC.

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As words, and hands, and hearts, and priest,
Could make us.” BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

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MDCCCLXXIX.

COPYRIGHT, 1879,
BY
DANIEL HOLMES.
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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. TWO LETTERS 7
II. DR. MATTHEWSON 10
III. THE MOCK MARRIAGE 19
IV. THE FORREST HOUSE 27
V. BEATRICE BELKNAP 37
VI. MOTHER AND SON 44
VII. JOSEPHINE 56
VIII. EVERARD 61
IX. THE RESULT 67
X. HUSBAND AND WIFE 84
XI. AFTER TWO YEARS 90
XII. COMMENCEMENT 95
XIII. THE RECEPTION 100
XIV. TWO MONTHS 108
XV. THE HOUSE OF CARDS BEGINS TO FALL 111
XVI. THE HOUSE OF CARDS GOES DOWN 122
XVII. THE NEXT DAY 129
XVIII. THE SHADOW OF DEATH 135
XIX. THE JUDGE’S WILL 142
XX. THE HEIRESS 150
XXI. A MIDNIGHT RIDE 160
XXII. THE NEW LIFE AT ROTHSAY 166
XXIII. BEE’S FAMILY 176
XXIV. IN THE SUMMER 196
XXV. MRS. FLEMING’S BOARDERS 203
XXVI. JOSEPHINE’S CONFIDENCE 212
XXVII. EVENTS OF ONE YEAR AT THE FORREST HOUSE 218
XXVIII. SOMETHING DOES HAPPEN 225
XXIX. MRS. J. E. FORREST 232
XXX. HOW ROSSIE BORE THE NEWS 240
XXXI. MRS. FORREST’S POLICY 243
XXXII. WHAT THE PEOPLE SAID AND DID 252
XXXIII. EVERARD FACES IT 254
XXXIV. EVERARD AND ROSSIE 259
XXXV. MR. AND MRS. J. E. FORREST 263
XXXVI. ROSAMOND’S DECISION 273
XXXVII. MATTERS ARE ADJUSTED 277
XXXVIII. “WAITING AND WATCHING FOR ME” 283
XXXIX. HOW THE TIDE EBBED AND FLOWED IN ROTHSAY 288
XL. DR. MATTHEWSON’S GAME 292
XLI. HOW THE GAME WAS PLAYED 296
XLII. ALAS, POOR ROSSIE! 318
XLIII. THE LETTERS 323
XLIV. THE NEW HEIR 327
XLV. THE NEW REIGN AT THE FORREST HOUSE 336
XLVI. THE LETTER FROM AUSTRIA 343
XLVII. AGNES FINDS THE LETTER 348
XLVIII. LA MAISON DE SANTE 356
XLIX. THE ESCAPE 364
L. GOING HOME 370
LI. BREAKING THE NEWS AT THE FORREST HOUSE 373
LII. BREAKING THE NEWS TO EVERARD 377
LIII. THE ARREST 383
LIV. TELLING THE TRUTH TO ROSSIE 387
LV. CONCLUSION 389

THE FORREST HOUSE.