Chapter I: Front Matter

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WINEFRED

A STORY OF THE CHALK CLIFFS

WINEFRED

A Story of the Chalk Cliffs

By S. Baring-Gould

_With Eight Illustrations by Edgar Bundy_

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
_MDCCCC_

_Copyright_, 1900
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. HOMELESS 1
II. ON THE VERGE 8
III. A COMMON CHORD 14
IV. THE UNDERCLIFF 21
V. DON'T 26
VI. OVER THE PUNCH-BOWL 30
VII. A LATE VISITOR 38
VIII. ON THE PEBBLE-BEACH 46
IX. SEEN THROUGH 54
X. A RIFT 61
XI. A PROPOSAL 67
XII. BY NIGHT 72
XIII. OUT OF THE SNARE 78
XIV. BURIED ALIVE 85
XV. CAST FORTH 89
XVI. JOB'S SECRET 95
XVII. J. H. 102
XVIII. DECLARATION OF WAR 107
XIX. EXIT JOB 115
XX. A FIRST STEP 120
XXI. FURTHER FORWARD 127
XXII. HOUSE AND HOME 133
XXIII. A PASSAGE OF ARMS 140
XXIV. REVERSED POSITIONS 148
XXV. THE STUDY OF A FACE 154
XXVI. A THORN BOUGH 161
XXVII. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER 167
XXVIII. MOST HEARTILY 172
XXIX. THE SHADOW OF A CHANGE 178
XXX. A NEW WORLD 183
XXXI. A CHARIOT DRIVE 190
XXXII. AT THE MILLINER'S 197
XXXIII. IN THE SQUARE 203
XXXIV. MISCHIEF-MAKING 210
XXXV. THE YOUNG MAN FROM BEER 215
XXXVI. TO BATH 222
XXXVII. CONFIDENCES 230
XXXVIII. A LETTER FROM BATH 235
XXXIX. THE BATH ASSEMBLY 242
XL. WANTED――CHOUGHS 250
XLI. THE WHITE CLIFF 256
XLII. A REVELATION 262
XLIII. A REFUSAL 266
XLIV. THE GATE OF THORNS 271
XLV. HOLWOOD OR MARLEY? 277
XLVI. OVER A TEA-TABLE 284
XLVII. THE CURTAIN DRAWN 289
XLVIII. THE BEGINNING OF THE END 295
XLIX. RENT ASUNDER 301
L. JOINED TOGETHER 306

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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'MAKE OUT THIS, WILL YOU? WE ARE ALL FRIENDS HERE' _Frontispiece_

SUDDENLY HOLWOOD STOOPED AND PRESSED HIS LIPS TO
HER BROW 59

WINEFRED HAD TAKEN THE LANTERN, AND HELD IT SO AS
TO ASSIST HIM 84

JANE MARLEY HAD THRUST HER WAY TO THE FRONT AND WAS
NEAR THE AUCTIONEER 139

MR. HOLWOOD APPROACHED THE CHAIR AND INTRODUCED
HIMSELF 218

SHE WAS CLASPED IN THE ARMS OF THIS GIRL, HER
BURNING CHEEKS WERE KISSED 246

IN A MOMENT SHE WAS IN HIS ARMS, AND THE CAGE AND
THE BIRDS HAD FALLEN 262

SHE WAS REMOVING THIS CASE TO DROP IT WHERE THE
GOLD HAD FALLEN, WHEN HER ARMS WERE GRASPED FROM
BEHIND 297

WINEFRED:

A STORY OF THE CHALK CLIFFS