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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Vixen, Volume III., by M. E. Braddon This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Vixen, Volume III. Author: M. E. Braddon Release Date: August 9, 2008 [EBook #26238] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VIXEN, VOLUME III. *** Produced by Daniel Fromont. HTML version by Al Haines. COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS TAUCHNITZ EDITION. VOL. 1811. VIXEN BY M. E. BRADDON IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. VIXEN A NOVEL BY M. E. BRADDON, AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET," ETC. ETC. _COPYRIGHT EDITION_. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1879. _The Right of Translation is reserved_. CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. CHAPTER I. Going into Exile CHAPTER II. Chiefly Financial CHAPTER III. "With weary Days thou shalt be clothed and fed" CHAPTER IV. Love and AEsthetics CHAPTER V. Crumpled Rose-Leaves CHAPTER VI. A Fool's Paradise CHAPTER VII. "It might have been" CHAPTER VIII. Wedding Bells CHAPTER IX. The nearest Way to Norway CHAPTER X. "All the Rivers run into the Sea" CHAPTER XI. The Bluebeard Chamber Epilogue VIXEN. CHAPTER I. Going into Exile. After a long sleepless night of tossing to and fro, Vixen rose with the first stir of life in the old house, and made herself ready to face the bleak hard world. Her meditations of the night had brought no new light to her mind. It was very clear to her that she must go away--as far as possible--from her old home. Her banishment was necessary for everybody's sake. For the sake of Rorie, who must behave like a man of honour, and keep his engagement with Lady Mabel, and shut his old playfellow out of his heart. For the sake of Mrs. Winstanley, who could never be happy while there was discord in her home; and last of all, for Violet herself, who felt that joy and peace had fled from the Abbey House for ever, and that it would be better to be anywhere, in the coldest strangest region of this wide earth, verily friendless and alone among strange faces, than here among friends who were but friends in name, and among scenes that wer
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