Phantom Fortune, A Novel

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

46 chapters20h 9mEnglish1883

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Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime in India. Forty years later, she is taking care of her two granddaughters, Mary and Lesbia. She prefers Lesbia, because of her beauty. Therefore, the relationship between the sisters is tolerable at best. Mary marries the man of her dreams while Lesbia enters London society under the wing of her grandmother's faithful friend. Would she take all the advantages offered to her and find a match which would make her grandmother happy? Would Mary finally be happy? And what has Lord Maulevrier done in India which makes his wife continue to bury herself in shame? - Summary by Stav Nisser.

Chapters (46)

1Penelope

1118

2Ulysses

1008

3On the Wrong Road

1532

4The Last Stage

464

5Forty Years After

2782

6Maulevrier's Humble Friend

1006

7In the Summer Morning

865

8There is Always a Skeleton

1338

9A Cry in the Darkness

1676

10'O Bitterness of Things Too Sweet'

1983

11'If I Were to Do as Iseult Did'

738

12'The Greater Cantle of the World is Lost'

880

13'Since Painted or Not Painted All Things Shall Fade'

2173

14'Not Yet'

1159

15'Of All Men Else I Have Avoided Thee'

1165

16'Her Face Resigned to Bliss or Bale'

926

17'And the Spring Comes Slowly Up this Way'

1714

18'And Come Agen, Be it Night or Day'

1855

19The Old Man on the Fell

1000

20Lady Maulevrier's Letter-Bag

1059

21On the Dark Brow of Helvellyn

2006

22Wiser than Lesbia

1917

23'A Young Lamb's Heart Among the Full-Grown Flocks'

1659

24'Now Nothing Left to Love or Hate'

2797

25Carte Blanche

3299

26'Proud Can I Never Be of What I Hate'

1831

27Lesbia Crosses Piccadilly

1707

28'Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in Wild Disorder Seen'

1906

29'Swift, Subtle Post, Carrier of Grisly Care'

1465

30'Roses Choked Among the Thorns and Thistles'

2040

31'Kind is My Love To-day, To-morrow Kind'

1456

32Ways and Means

1169

33By Special Licence

2732

34'Our Love was New, and Then But in the Spring'

1238

35'All Fancy Pride, and Fickle Maidenhood'

1418

36A Rastaquouère

2835

37Lord Hatfield Refuses a Fortune

2481

38On Board the 'Cayman'

2781

39In Storm and Darkness

1693

40A Note of Alarm

743

41Privileged Information

950

42'Shall It Be?'

578

43'Alas, for Sorrow is All the End of This'

1629

44'Oh, Sad Kissed Mouth, How Sorrowful it Is!'

1464

45'That Fell Arrest Without All Bail'

900

46The Day of Reckoning

1463

Phantom Fortune, A Novel

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