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Title: The Long Night

Author: Stanley Weyman

Release Date: October 7, 2006 [EBook #19485]

Language: English

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THE LONG NIGHT

BY
STANLEY WEYMAN

AUTHOR OF "A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE," ETC.

_SECOND IMPRESSION_

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
AND BOMBAY
1903

WORKS BY STANLEY WEYMAN.

The House of the Wolf.
The New Rector.
The Story of Francis Cludde.
A Gentleman of France.
The Man in Black.
Under the Red Robe.
My Lady Rotha.
The Red Cockade.
Shrewsbury.
Sophia.
The Castle Inn.
From the Memoirs of a Minister of France.
Count Hannibal.
In Kings' Byways.
The Long Night.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A Student of Theology 1
II. The House on the Ramparts 16
III. The Quintessential Stone 31
IV. Caesar Basterga 45
V. The Elixir Vitae 59
VI. To Take or Leave 74
VII. A Second Tissot 88
VIII. On the Threshold 102
IX. Melusina 116
X. Auctio Fit: Venit Vita 129
XI. By This or That 143
XII. The Cup and the Lip 157
XIII. A Mystery Solved 172
XIV. "And Only One Dose in all the World!" 185
XV. On the Bridge 200
XVI. A Glove and What Came of It 215
XVII. The _Remedium_ 227
XVIII. The Bargain Struck 242
XIX. The Departure of the Rats 257
XX. In the Darkened Room 271
XXI. The _Remedium_ 285
XXII. Two Nails in the Wall 30