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The Cloven Foot

M. E. Braddon

When John Treverton inherits his uncle's estate with one condition—he must marry the adopted daughter Laura within a year—he accepts, despite harboring a dark secret.

"The Cloven Foot" by M. E. Braddon is a novel. When John Treverton inherits his uncle's estate with one condition—he must marry the adopted daughter Laura within a year—he accepts, despite harboring a dark secret.

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The air was thick with falling snow, and the country side looked a formless mass of chilly whiteness, as the south-western mail train carried John Treverton on a lonely midnight journey. There were not many people in the train on that bleak night, and Mr. Treverton had a second-class compartment to himself.

He had tried to sleep, but had failed ignominiously in the endeavour, waking with a start, after five minutes’ doze, and remaining broad awake for an hour at a time pondering upon the perplexities of his life, and hating himself for the follies that had made it what it was. It had been a very hard life of late, for the world had gone ill with John Treverton. He had begun his career with a small fortune and a commission in a crack regiment, and, after wasting his patrimony and selling his commission, he was now a gentleman at large, living as best he might, no one but himself knew how.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I.
  2. 02Chapter II.
  3. 03Chapter III.
  4. 04Chapter IV.
  5. 05Chapter V.
  6. 06Chapter VI.
  7. 07Chapter VII.
  8. 08Chapter VIII.
  9. 09Chapter IX.
  10. 10Chapter X.
  11. 11Chapter XI.
  12. 12Chapter XII.
  13. 13Chapter XIII.
  14. 14Chapter XIV.
  15. 15Chapter XV.
  16. 16Chapter XVI.
  17. 17Chapter XVII.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII.
  19. 19Chapter XIX.
  20. 20Chapter XX.
  21. 21Chapter XXI.
  22. 22Chapter XXII.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV.
  25. 25Chapter XXV.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX.
  30. 30Chapter XXX.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX.
  40. 40Chapter XL.
  41. 41Chapter XLI.
  42. 42Chapter XLII.
  43. 43Chapter XLIII.
  44. 44Chapter XLIV.
  45. 45Chapter XLV.
  46. 46Epilogue.
  47. 47Transcriber’s Notes

About this edition

Author
M. E. Braddon
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
481 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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