A TRUE FRIEND.
A NOVEL.
BY ADELINE SERGEANT
_Author of "The Luck of the House," "A Life Sentence," etc., etc._
MONTREAL: JOHN LOVELL & SON, 23 ST. NICHOLAS STREET.
CONTENTS
I. AN UNSUITABLE FRIENDSHIP
II. LADY CAROLINE'S TACTICS
III. AT HELMSLEY COURT
IV. ON THE ROAD.
V. WYVIS BRAND
VI. JANETTA AT HOME
VII. NORA'S NEW ACQUAINTANCE
VIII. FATHER AND CHILD
IX. CONSULTATION
X. MARGARET
XI. JANETTA'S PROMISES
XII. JANETTA REMONSTRATES
XIII. SHADOWS
XIV. JANETTA'S FAILURE
XV. A BONE OF CONTENTION
XVI. SIR PHILIP'S OPINION
XVII. MARGARET'S FRIENDSHIP
XVIII. A NEW FRIEND
XIX. NORA'S PROCEEDINGS
XX. AN ELDER BROTHER
XXI. CUTHBERT'S ROMANCE
XXII. WYVIS BRAND'S IDEAL
XXIII. FORGET-ME-NOTS
XXIV. LADY ASHLEY'S GARDEN PARTY
XXV. SIR PHILIP'S DECISION
XXVI. "FREE!"
XXVII. A BIG BRIBE
XXVIII. "CHANGES MUST COME."
XXIX. MARGARET'S CONFESSION
XXX. IN REBELLION
XXXI. THE PLOUGHMAN'S SON
XXXII. THE FAILURE OF MARGARET
XXXIII. RETROSPECT
XXXIV. FROM DISTANT LANDS
XXXV. JULIET
XXXVI. THE FRUITS OF A LIE
XXXVII. NIGHT
XXXVIII. THE LAST SCENE
XXXIX. MAKING AMENDS
XL. MY FAITHFUL JANET
A TRUE FRIEND
CHAPTER I.
AN UNSUITABLE FRIENDSHIP.
Janetta was the music governess--a brown little thing of no particular importance, and Margaret Adair was a beauty and an heiress, and the only daughter of people who thought themselves very distinguished indeed; so that the two had not, you might think, very much in common, and were not likely to be attracted one to the other. Yet, in spite of differing circumstances, they were close friends and allies; and had been such ever since they were together at the same fashionable school where Miss Adair was the petted favorite of all, and Janetta Colwyn was the pupil-teacher in the shabbiest of frocks, who got all the snubbing and did most of the hard work. And great offence was given in several directions by Miss Adair's attachment to poor little Janetta.