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(Oxford University)
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. | |
| I. | GILBERT DENISON'S WILL. |
| II. | MRS. CARLYON AT HOME. |
| III. | CAPTAIN LENNOX STARTLED. |
| IV. | HERON DYKE AND ITS INMATES. |
| V. | AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR. |
| VI. | ONE SNOWY NIGHT. |
| VII. | COMING TO DINNER. |
| VIII. | AT THE LILACS. |
| IX. | THE DOCTOR'S VERDICT. |
| X. | A DAY WITH PHILIP CLEEVE. |
| XI. | A VISIT FROM MRS. CARLYON. |
| XII. | FAREWELL. |
The First Gentleman in Europe sat upon the throne of his fathers, and the Battleof Waterloo was a stupendous event that still dwelt freshly in men's memories, whenone bright August evening, Gilbert Denison, gentleman, of Heron Dyke, Norfolk, laydying in his lodgings in Bloomsbury Square, London.
He was a man of sixty, and, but a few days before he had been full of life, health,and energy. As he was riding into town from Enfield, where he had been visitingsome friends, his horse slipped, fell, and rolled heavily over its rider. All hadbeen done for Gilbert Denison that surgical skill could do, but to no avail. Hishours were numbered, and none knew that sad fact better than the dying man. Butin that strong, rugged, resolute face could not be read any dread of the approachingend. He was a Denison, and no Denison had ever been known to fear anything.
By the bedside sat his favourite nephew and heir, whose christian name was alsoGilbert. He was a young man of t