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CONTENTS OF VOL. I. | |
| CHAP. | |
| I. | Homeward bound. |
| II. | Pages from the Past. |
| III. | Discomfiture. |
| IV. | The Ideal and the Real. |
| V. | Chayleigh. |
| VI. | Half-confidences. |
| VII. | The old familiar Faces. |
| VIII. | Mrs. Carteret is congratulated. |
| IX. | What the Woman meant. |
| X. | The Letter from Melbourne. |
| XI. | Fools' Paradise. |
| XII. | Dawning. |
"Good-bye, again; good-bye!"
"Good-bye, my dear; perhaps not for ever, though: I may make my wayback to the old country once more. You will tell my old friend I keptmy word to him:" and then the speaker kissed the woman to whom headdressed these parting words tenderly, went quickly away, and washidden from her in a moment by all the bewildering confusion of "boardship" at the hour of sailing.
He had not waited for words in reply to his farewell; she could nothave spoken them, and he knew it; and while she tried to make out hisfigure among the groups upon the deck, formed of those who were aboutto set forth upon the long perilous ocean voyage, and those who hadcome to bid them good-bye, some with hearts full of agony, a fewcareless and gay enough, a suffocating silence held her.