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Lucius Davoren; or, Publicans and Sinners, Vol. 3
The story appears to focus on themes of love, mystery, personal sacrifice, and the haunting consequences of the past, with Lucius Davoren and his circle, including Geoffrey Hossack, Janet, and Lucille, as central figures.
"Lucius Davoren; or, Publicans and Sinners, vol. 3" by M. E. Braddon is a novel. The story appears to focus on themes of love, mystery, personal sacrifice, and the haunting consequences of the past, with Lucius Davoren and his circle, including Geoffrey Hossack, Janet, and Lucille, as central figures.
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While Lucius Davoren was thus occupied at the east end of London, Geoffrey Hossack was making the best of an existence which he had made up his mind to consider utterly joyless, so long as adverse fate denied him the one desire of his heart. For him in vain warm August skies were deeply blue, and the bosky dells and glades of the New Forest still untouched by autumn’s splendid decay. For him vainly ran the bright river between banks perfumed with wild flowers. He beheld these things from the lofty standpoint of discontent, and in his heart called Nature a poor creature.
‘I would rather be mewed up in Whitecross-street prison, or in the Venetian Piombi, with Janet for my wife, than enjoy all that earth can give of natural beauty or artificial splendour without her,’ he said to himself, when his cousins had bored him into a misanthropical mood by their insistence upon the charms of rural life, as exemplified at Hillersdon Grange.
‘I’m afraid you have no soul for Nature,’ said Belle, when she had kept Geoffrey on his feet for an hour in the cramped old-fashioned hot-houses, where she went in desperately for ferns and orchids, and imitated Lady Baker on a small scale.
Contents
- 01Chapter XIII. How Geoffrey Enjoyed the Garden-Party.
- 02Chapter XIV. Lucille Has Strange Dreams.
- 03Chapter XV. The Dawn of Hope.
- 04Chapter XVI. An Old Friend Reappears.
- 05Chapter XVII. Lucius Seeks Enlightenment.
- 06Chapter XVIII. Mr. Agar’s Colonial Client.
- 07Chapter XIX. Lucille’s Confession.
- 08Chapter XX. Lucille Makes a New Friend.
- 09Chapter I. At Rouen.
- 10Chapter II. The Story Grows Clearer.
- 11Chapter III. Julie Dumarques.
- 12Chapter IV. Coming to Meet His Doom.
- 13Chapter V. ‘’Tis with Us Perpetual Night.’
- 14Chapter VI. Lucius in Quest of Justice.
- 15Chapter VII. The End of All Delusions.
- 16Chapter VIII. Aunt Glenlyne.
- 17Chapter IX. Geoffrey Has Thoughts of Shanghai.
- 18Chapter X. Lucius Surrenders a Doubtful Chance.
- 19Epilogue.
- 20Transcriber’s Notes
About this edition
- Author
- M. E. Braddon
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 210 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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