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Title: The Twelfth Hour

Author: Ada Leverson

Release Date: December 17, 2008 [eBook #27554]

Language: English

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THE TWELFTH HOUR

by

ADA LEVERSON

London
Chapman & Hall

Originally published 1907 by Grant Richards Ltd.
Reissued 1951 by arrangement with the Richards Press Ltd.

Printed by Brueder Rosenbaum, Vienna, Austria
Cat. No. 5090/4

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I FELICITY 7

II THE TRIALS OF WOODVILLE 23

III A LOVE SCENE 32

IV "AUNT WILLIAM" 40

V ARTHUR MERVYN AT HOME 55

VI AN AGREEABLE RATTLE 70

VII THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY 82

VIII FELICITY AND HER CLIENTS 100

IX A DINNER AT WILLIS'S 112

X THE THIN END OF THE WEDGE 125

XI SAVILE AND SYLVIA 138

XII AT THE STUDIO 148

XIII AT MRS. OGILVIE'S 155

XIV LORD CHETWODE 166

XV MADAME TUSSAUD'S 175

XVI A GOLDEN DAY 189

XVII SAVILE TAKES A LINE 195

XVIII FELICITY'S ENGAGEMENTS 202

XIX THE VELVET CASE 216

XX ZERO, THE SOOTHSAYER 232

XXI "THE OTHER GIRL" 246

XXII SAVILE AND JASMYN 255

XXIII SAVILE AND BERTIE 261

XXIV THE EXPLANATION 267

XXV THE QUAR