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The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) A Family Mystery.
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Title: The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3)
A Family Mystery.
Author: Charles James Wills
Release Date: February 23, 2013 [eBook #42168]
Language: English
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THE
PIT TOWN CORONET:
A Family Mystery.
BY
CHARLES J. WILLS,
AUTHOR OF
IN THE LAND OF THE LION AND SUN, ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
WARD AND DOWNEY,
12, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, W.C.
1888
[The right of translation is reserved, and the Dramatic Copyright protected.]
PRINTED BY
KELLY AND CO., GATE STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C.;
AND MIDDLE MILL, KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | — A Horrible Scandal | 1 |
| II. | — At the Parsonage | 27 |
| III. | — How they came Home | 51 |
| IV. | — The Return of the Wanderer | 73 |
| V. | — The Misses Sleek drop in | 94 |
| VI. | — The Sleeks in Arcadia | 117 |
| VII. | — Haggard comes into his own | 138 |
| VIII. | — The Vicar tries Puffin | 167 |
| IX. | — Mr. Puffin hunts a Butterfly | 190 |
| X. | — A rather Shady Character | 213 |
| XI. | — Esau was the Firstborn | 236 |
| XII. | — In St. John's Wood | 276 |
THE PIT TOWN CORONET.
CHAPTER I.
A HORRIBLE SCANDAL.
Dull as the life of the little château on the lake necessarily was, yet Georgie Haggard did not suffer from ennui seemed in fact to rather revel in the quietude, and to luxuriate in the seclusion of the Swiss villa, after the fatigues and excitements of a busy London season and the turmoil and the incidental worries which must always attend an extended foreign tour, even when it is taken for pleasure, and when expense is no object. The position of the villa was sufficiently romantic; behind it were the snow-covered Alps, Mont Blanc always clearly visible; and all in front stretched the lake with its glorious blue water of that intense azure which is only seen on this Geneva lake. Why it should be so very blue is, and always will be, a mystery; of course it has been explained by scientific people in various manners satisfactory to themselves, but the fact remains that the lake is of a deeper blue than any other European water, and strange to say the intense colour is just as apparent in the shallowest parts. One may row over a place not more than a yard deep, where the bottom is clearly perceptible, but the waters are as blue as ever, a deep unnatural ultramarine blue, a blue which is seen only here and in the choicest specimens of