Under False Pretences

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Author

Sergeant, Adeline, 1851-1904

Title

Under False Pretences: A Novel

Credits

E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Early Canadiana Online ( www.canadiana.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Mistaken identity -- Fiction

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Text

eBook-No.

31375

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31375

Release Date

February 23, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Early Canadiana Online ( http://www.canadiana.org ) — UNDER FALSE PRETENCES — A NOVEL.
2. 2.By ADELINE SERGEANT — AUTHOR OF Jacobi's Wife, Beyond Recall, An Open Foe, etc. — Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine by William Bryce , in the office of the Minister of Agriculture. — TORONTO; WILLIAM BRYCE, PUBLISHER.
3. 3.UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. — Prologue to the Story. — In Two Parts. — I. — II. — END OF THE PROLOGUE.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. — BY THE LOCH.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. — HUGO LUTTRELL.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. — IN THE TWILIGHT.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. — THE DEAD MAN'S TESTIMONY.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. — MOTHER AND SON.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. — A FAREWELL.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. — IN GOWER-STREET.
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. — ELIZABETH'S WOOING.
13. 13.CHAPTER X. — BROTHER DINO.
14. 14.CHAPTER XI. — ON A MOUNTAIN-SIDE.
15. 15.CHAPTER XII. — THE HEIRESS OF STRATHLECKIE.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. — SAN STEFANO.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. — THE PRIOR'S OPINION.
18. 18.CHAPTER XV. — THE VILLA VENTURI.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. — "WITHOUT A REFERENCE."
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. — PERCIVAL'S HOLIDAY.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. — THE MISTRESS OF NETHERGLEN.
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. — A LOST LETTER.
23. 23.CHAPTER XX. — "MISCHIEF, THOU ART AFOOT."
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI. — A FLASK OF ITALIAN WINE.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXII. — BRIAN'S WELCOME.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII. — THE WISHING WELL.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV. — "GOOD-BYE."
28. 28.CHAPTER XXV. — A COVENANT.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI. — ELIZABETH'S CONFESSION.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII. — PERCIVAL'S OWN WAY.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII. — A REVELATION.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXIX. — DINO'S PROPOSITION.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXX. — FRIENDS AND BROTHERS.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXI. — ACCUSER AND ACCUSED.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXII. — RETRIBUTION.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIII. — WHAT PERCIVAL KNEW.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXIV. — PERCIVAL'S ATONEMENT.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXV. — DINO'S HOME-COMING.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVI. — BY LAND AND SEA.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXVII. — WRECKED.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVIII. — ON THE ROCAS REEF.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXIX. — BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.
43. 43.CHAPTER XL. — KITTY.
44. 44.CHAPTER XLI. — KITTY'S FRIENDS.
45. 45.CHAPTER XLII. — A FALSE ALARM.
46. 46.CHAPTER XLIII. — TRAPPED.
47. 47.CHAPTER XLIV. — HUGO'S VICTORY.
48. 48.CHAPTER XLV. — TOO LATE!
49. 49.CHAPTER XLVI. — A MERE CHANCE.
50. 50.CHAPTER XLVII. — FOUND.
51. 51.CHAPTER XLVIII. — ANGELA.
52. 52.CHAPTER XLIX. — KITTY'S WARNING.
53. 53.CHAPTER L. — MRS. LUTTRELL'S ROOM.
54. 54.CHAPTER LI. — A LAST CONFESSION.
55. 55.CHAPTER LII. — "THE END CROWNS ALL, AND THAT IS YET TO COME." — THE END.
56. 56.BOOKS TO READ. — CANADIAN COPYRIGHT SERIES.

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