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The Cottage on the Fells

Chapter 43: CHAPTER XLII
By H. De Vere Stacpoole
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A young, financially insecure barrister becomes infatuated with a reserved Frenchwoman he meets at a seaside hotel, and their daily walks and conversations kindle a delicate, uncertain attachment. Their budding intimacy is complicated by class contrasts, the barrister's romantic idealism, and a shadowy family history that keeps the woman and her aunt socially isolated. The narrative alternates scenes of longing and social observation with glimpses into ancestral roots and secrets, exploring how reputation, desire, and undisclosed pasts shape relationships and choices.

CHAPTER XLII

NEXT evening, at nine o’clock, Hellier called at the Langham.

Mademoiselle Lefarge, who had come to England in response to a telegram, was waiting for him.

“Well?” she asked, as she held both of his hands in hers.

“It is done,” said Hellier. “To-morrow your father’s name will be cleared in the sight of all men. You have suffered and waited a long, long time, but yesterday you were avenged.”

Throstle Hall, up in Cumberland, still lies empty, waiting a tenant, for Sir Anthony’s heir, a distant cousin, has no fancy for the place.

And men walk at night on the Blencarn road in couples, if they have to walk there at all, for fear of the ghost of Sir Anthony Gyde, which waits, so the legend runs, at the gate of the field leading to the Cottage on the Fells.

The End.
  • Transcriber’s Notes:
    • Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected.
    • Unbalanced quotation marks were left as the author intended.
    • Typographical errors were silently corrected.
    • Spelling and hyphenation were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise it was not changed.

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