Chapter I: Front Matter

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TORWOOD’S TRUST.

A Novel.

BY

EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN.

‘Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower,
safety ... I protest, our plot is as good a plot as
ever was laid.’
HENRY IV., _Pt. I., Act II., Sc. III._

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOL. I.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
1884.
[_All Rights Reserved._]

TO MY SISTERS,

GERTRUDE AND CONSTANCE,

THIS, MY FIRST NOVEL,

Is Dedicated,

IN FULFILMENT OF A PROMISE MADE TO THEM,

IN THE DAYS OF OUR EARLY CHILDHOOD.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A PROLOGUE 1

II. NEWS FROM ENGLAND 16

III. DR. SCHNEEBERGER 38

IV. THE EXILE’S RETURN 55

V. PHILIP’S SISTER 75

VI. A MORNING WALK 96

VII. MICHAEL MEREDITH 116

VIII. A TALK IN THE TWILIGHT 133

IX. TORWOOD’S TENANT 153

X. MAUD’S MATRIMONIAL VIEWS 171

XI. AN ENCOUNTER WITH BELASSIS 191

XII. AN AWKWARD RECOGNITION 211

XIII. ROMA’S REQUEST 229

XIV. MEREDITH’S PROPOSITION 248

XV. DANGERS AHEAD 266

XVI. AN ODD INTERVIEW 286

TORWOOD’S TRUST.