Diana of the Crossways — Complete. George Meredith

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I. OF DIARIES AND DIARISTS TOUCHING THE HEROINE

       CHAPTER II. AN IRISH BALL.

       CHAPTER III. THE INTERIOR OF MR. REDWORTH, AND THE EXTERIOR OF MR. SULLIVAN SMITH

       CHAPTER IV. CONTAINING HINTS OF DIANA'S EXPERIENCES AND OF WHAT THEY LED TO

       CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE SCRUPULOUS GENTLEMAN WHO CAME TOO LATE

       CHAPTER VI. THE COUPLE

       CHAPTER VII. THE CRISIS

       CHAPTER VIII. IN WHICH IS EXHIBITED HOW A PRACTICAL MAN AND A DIVINING WOMAN LEARN TO RESPECT ONE ANOTHER

       'You see, you are my crutch,' Lady Dunstane said to him,—raising the stick in reminder of the present.

       CHAPTER IX. SHOWS HOW A POSITION OF DELICACY FOR A LADY AND GENTLEMAN WAS MET IN SIMPLE FASHION WITHOUT HURT TO EITHER

       CHAPTER X. THE CONFLICT OF THE NIGHT

       Her brain was a steam-wheel throughout the night; everything that could be thought of was tossed, nothing grasped.

       CHAPTER XI. RECOUNTS THE JOURNEY IN A CHARIOT, WITH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DIALOGUE, AND A SMALL INCIDENT ON THE ROAD

       CHAPTER XII. BETWEEN EMMA AND DIANA

       CHAPTER XIII. TOUCHING THE FIRST DAYS OF HER PROBATION

       CHAPTER XIV. GIVING GLIMPSES OF DIANA UNDER HER CLOUD BEFORE THE WORLD AND OF HER FURTHER APPRENTICESHIP

       CHAPTER XV. INTRODUCES THE HON. PERCY DACIER

       CHAPTER XVI. TREATS OF A MIDNIGHT BELL, AND OF A SCENE OF EARLY MORNING

       CHAPTER XVII. 'THE PRINCESS EGERIA'

       CHAPTER XVIII. THE AUTHORESS

       CHAPTER XIX. A DRIVE IN SUNLIGHT AND A DRIVE IN MOONLIGHT

       The fatal time to come for her was in the Summer of that year.

       CHAPTER XX. DIANA A NIGHT-WATCH IN THE CHAMBER OF DEATH

       He stepped into the room, and thrilled to hear the quiet voice beside the bed: 'Who is it?'

       CHAPTER XXI. 'THE YOUNG MINISTER OF STATE'

       CHAPTER XXII. BETWEEN DIANA AND DACIER: THE WIND EAST OVER BLEAK LAND

       CHAPTER XXIII. RECORDS A VISIT TO DIANA FROM ONE OF THE WORLD'S GOOD WOMEN

       CHAPTER XXIV. INDICATES A SOUL PREPARED FOR DESPERATION

       CHAPTER XXV. ONCE MORE THE CROSSWAYS AND A CHANGE OF TURNINGS

       CHAPTER XXVI. IN WHICH A DISAPPOINTED LOVER RECEIVES A MULTITUDE OF LESSONS

       CHAPTER XXVII. CONTAINS MATTER FOR SUBSEQUENT EXPLOSION

       CHAPTER XXVIII. DIALOGUE ROUND THE SUBJECT OF A PORTRAIT, WITH SOME INDICATIONS OF THE TASK FOR DIANA

       CHAPTER XXIX. SHOWS THE APPROACHES OF THE POLITICAL AND THE DOMESTIC CRISIS IN COMPANY

       CHAPTER XXX. IN WHICH THERE IS A TASTE OF A LITTLE DINNER AND AN AFTERTASTE

       CHAPTER XXXI. A CHAPTER CONTAINING GREAT POLITICAL NEWS AND THEREWITH AN INTRUSION OF THE LOVE-GOD

       Dacier was pacing about the drawing-room, as in a place too narrow for him.

       CHAPTER XXXII. WHEREIN WE BEHOLD A GIDDY TURN AT THE SPECTRAL CROSSWAYS

       Danvers accompanied Mr. Dacier to the house-door. Climbing the stairs, she found her mistress in the drawing-room still.

       CHAPTER XXXIII. EXHIBITS THE SPRINGING OF A MINE IN A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

       CHAPTER XXXIV. IN WHICH IT IS DARKLY SEEN HOW THE CRIMINAL'S JUDGE MAY BE LOVE'S CRIMINAL.

       CHAPTER XXXV. REVEALS HOW THE TRUE HEROINE OF ROMANCE COMES FINALLY TO HER, TIME OF TRIUMPH

       CHAPTER XXXVI. IS CONCLUSIVE AS TO