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A Woman's Burden: A Novel
The novel opens with a dramatic scene on Waterloo Bridge, where various characters are thrust into a dark and gritty narrative marked by themes of poverty, desperation, and crime.
"A Woman's Burden: A Novel" by Fergus Hume is a work of fiction. The novel opens with a dramatic scene on Waterloo Bridge, where various characters are thrust into a dark and gritty narrative marked by themes of poverty, desperation, and crime.
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It was midnight—midnight on Waterloo Bridge. A plague was over the city—the concentrated vomit of a million and more chimneys wrapped all in an Egyptian darkness.
The miracle of Moses could not have produced a deeper gloom—an atmosphere more impenetrable. It clung to the skin, it even pressed against the eyeballs. It might in truth have been that very outer darkness which we are taught is reserved for those amongst us who are sinners.
Big Ben and his brethren of the steeples struck a muffled twelve, seeming to insist upon their strokes the more as if they knew their dials were hidden from all sight. The very gas lamps entered into rivalry, some looming out mere splotches of dirty yellow light, while here and there one more modern than its fellows managed successfully to penetrate the gloom. The bridge leapt across the river from fog-bank to fog-bank, like the bridge in Mira's vision, and if the chill mist lifted a trifle toward the centre, it was but a matter of a few feet. And above it all presumably there shone the stars and moon in their spacious firmament, they and their kindly influence shut out, it might be for ever, by the relentless pall.
Contents
- 01Prologue.
- 02Chapter I.
- 03Chapter II.
- 04Part I.
- 05Chapter I.
- 06Chapter II.
- 07Chapter III.
- 08Chapter IV.
- 09Chapter V.
- 10Chapter VI.
- 11Chapter VII.
- 12Chapter VIII.
- 13Chapter IX.
- 14Chapter X.
- 15Chapter XI.
- 16Chapter XII.
- 17Chapter XIII.
- 18Chapter XIV.
- 19Chapter XV.
- 20Chapter XVI.
- 21Chapter XVII.
- 22Chapter XVIII.
- 23Part II.
- 24Chapter I.
- 25Chapter II.
- 26Chapter III.
- 27Chapter IV.
- 28Chapter V.
- 29Chapter VI.
- 30Chapter VII.
- 31Chapter VIII.
- 32Chapter IX.
- 33Chapter X.
- 34Chapter XI.
- 35Chapter XII.
- 36Chapter XIII.
- 37Chapter XIV.
- 38Epilogue.
- 39Selections from Jarrold & Sons' List.
- 40Fergus Hume's Novels.
- 41The "Greenback" Series of Popular 3/6 Novels.
About this edition
- Author
- Fergus Hume
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 373 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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