Leslie's Loyalty

By Charles Garvice

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 4, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547217916

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Charles Garvice

Leslie's Loyalty

EAN 8596547217916

DigiCat, 2022

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LESLIE LISLE.

CHAPTER II.

FATE.

CHAPTER III.

RALPH DUNCOMBE.

CHAPTER IV.

THE NEW DUKE.

CHAPTER V.

APPRECIATED GENIUS.

CHAPTER VI.

TAKING A SAIL.

CHAPTER VII.

THE DUKE'S SNEERS.

CHAPTER VIII.

YORKE AUCHESTER AS A STRATEGIST.

CHAPTER IX.

THE PICNIC.

CHAPTER X.

YORKE IN LOVE.

CHAPTER XI.

AN IMPETUOUS AVOWAL.

CHAPTER XII.

MISS FINETTA.

CHAPTER XIII.

WHAT A MESS I'M IN!

CHAPTER XIV.

NOW, YORKE!

CHAPTER XV.

FINETTA LEARNS THE TRUTH.

CHAPTER XVI.

CHAPTER XVII.

A WORD OF WARNING.

CHAPTER XVIII.

STRANGE TALK.

CHAPTER XIX.

FINETTA'S WAY.

CHAPTER XX.

I'M GOING TO LIVE, AND SO ARE YOU.

CHAPTER XXI.

IT IS FALSE—I WILL NOT BELIEVE IT.

CHAPTER XXII.

FAME HAS COME TO ME AT LAST.

CHAPTER XXIII.

GOOD-BY, AND NOT ADIEU.

CHAPTER XXIV.

MAD AS A HATTER!

CHAPTER XXV.

FORGOTTEN ME, HAS HE?

CHAPTER XXVI.

A WEDDING RING.

CHAPTER XXVII.

GONE, AND LEFT NO ADDRESS.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO SAVE HIM.

CHAPTER XXIX.

THE NEW LODGER.

CHAPTER XXX.

THE ENCOUNTER.

CHAPTER XXXI.

CLEANED OUT.

CHAPTER XXXII.

BOUGHT AND PAID FOR.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

A LITTLE SUNSHINE.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

WAS YORKE HAPPY?

CHAPTER XXXV.

THE HEIR APPARENT.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

THE NEW LOVE.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

POOR GIRL!

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

VENGEANCE IS MINE.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

FINETTA'S CONFESSION.

CHAPTER XL.

MY SWEET GIRL LOVE.

CHAPTER XLI.

IT IS THE TRUTH.

CHAPTER XLII.

LOVE AND PRIDE.

CHAPTER XLIII.

LESLIE, YOUR WIFE!

CHAPTER XLIV.

HUSBAND AND—BROTHER.

CHAPTER XLV.

THE CUP OF HAPPINESS.

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CHAPTER I.

LESLIE LISLE.

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Nobody ever goes to Portmaris; that is to say, nobody who is anybody. It lies—but no matter, ours shall not be the hand to ruin its simplicity by advertising its beauties and advantages, and directing the madding crowd to its sylvan retreat. At present the golden sands which line the bay are innocent of the negro troupe, the peripatetic conjurer, and the monster in human form who pesters you to purchase hideous objects manufactured from shells and cardboard.

A time may come when Portmaris will develop into an Eastbourne or a Brighton, a Scarborough or a Hastings; but, Heaven be praised, that time is not yet, and Portmaris, like an unconscious village beauty, goes on its way as yet ignorant of its loveliness.

At present there are about a dozen houses, most of them fishermen's cottages; a church, hidden in a hollow a mile away from the restless sea; and an inn which is satisfied with being an inn, and has not yet learned to call itself a hotel.

Two or three of the fisherfolk let lodgings, to which come those fortunate individuals who have quite by chance stumbled upon this out-of-the-way spot; and in the sitting-room of the prettiest of these unpretentious cottages was a young girl.

Her name was Leslie Lisle. She was nineteen, slim, graceful, and more than pretty. There is a type of beauty which, with more or less truth, is generally described as Irish. It has dark hair, blue eyes with long black lashes, a clear and colorless complexion of creamy ivory, and a chin that would seem pointed but for the exquisite fullness of the lips. It is a type which is more fascinating than the severe Greek, more holding than the voluptuous Spanish, more spirituel than the vivacious French; in short, it is a kind of beauty before which most men go down completely and forever vanquished, and this because the wonderful gray-blue eyes are capable of an infinity of expressions, can be grave one moment and brimming over with fun the next; because there lurks, even when they are most quiescent, a world of possibilities in the way of wit in the corners of the red lips; because the face, as you watch it, can in the course of a few minutes flash with spirit, melt with tenderness, and all the while remain the face of a pure, innocent, healthy, light-hearted girl.

The young men who crossed Leslie Lisle's path underwent a sad experience.

At first they were attracted by her beauty; in a few hours or days, as the case might be, they began to find the attraction lying somewhat deeper than the face; then they grew restless, unhappy, lost their appetites, got to lying awake of nights, and lastly went to pieces completely, and if they possessed sufficient courage, flung themselves perfectly wretched and overcome at the small feet of the slim, girlish figure which had become to them even that of the one woman in the world. And to do Leslie justice, she was not only always surprised, but distressed. She