The House of Lynch (Volume 7) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1919 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX It had been a pitiful leave-taking. She had instructed the bankers to close her account, and to transfer the balance to her father's; she had set her foot upon the narrow way. But she wore no crown of righteousness to mark her dignity, she knew no glow of virtue to light her path. As she had said, she understood--and to understand was to suffer. She knew that he ranked her now, must always rank her, among his enemies--and of all his enemies the worst. In his eyes, she was without defence; she was a daughter who had repaid devotion by a callous wrong. When she had been weak, his home, his fortune, his arms, all had been open to her; now that she had gained strength, she had laid waste the achievement of his life. Perforce She had had to deny his plea, or sin towards her conscience, and her husband, and her boy. Now she realised what Keith had suffered in denying her own plea. But it seemed to her very cruel that she could not do what was right without breaking a heart. She was not the woman to view herself as an appointed instrument of Retribution--she was only a very human woman, trying to be good--and she sorrowed to feel that, not by the vengeance of the multitude, not by the Hand of God, could her father have been stricken more utterly than by this inevitable blow that was dealt by her. He was left to contemplate millions that were useless, a dominion that had crumbled, a palace that was void. Beggary itself would have been more merciful if it had spared him his child. The havoc was complete. It was early April when she arrived in England. Until it was settled where she was to live, she must retain the nurse, for she could not take the baby with her when she looked for country rooms. For the interval she had thought of a boarding-house in Blo...