Long Odds
A Novel
1869
Marcus Clarke
Preface
Chapter I - Dym-Street, Cavendish-Square
Chapter II - Introduces Several Persons
Chapter III - Carnifex
Chapter IV - In Re Cyril Chatteris
Chapter V - A Wedding Gift
Chapter VI - First Links
Chapter VII - Kate
Chapter VIII - Mr. Septimus Bland
Chapter IX - Making Inquiries
Chapter X - Mrs. Manton “Sees Her Way”
Chapter XI - An Afternoon’s Stroll
Chapter XII - A Quiet Dinner in Brooke-Street
Chapter XIII - “Jacta Est Alea”
Chapter XIV - A Retreat Before Heavy Guns
Chapter XV - Monetary
Chapter XVI - Ways and Means
Chapter XVII - Shows the Cloven Foot
Chapter XVIII - In which Bob Thinks About Returning to Australia
Chapter XIX - Liming the Twig
Chapter XX - Wife-Taming
Chapter XXI - Selling and Borrowing
Chapter XXII - The Cardinal
Chapter XXIII - Political Plots
Chapter XXIV - Rupert Dacre in a New Rôle
Chapter XXV - At Matcham
Chapter XXVI - Principally Amatory
Chapter XXVII - “Bless You, My Children!”
Chapter XXVIII - Prose and Poetry
Chapter XXIX - Nearing the Brink
Chapter XXX - David and Jonathan
Chapter XXXI - In which the Major gets a Little “Information.”
Chapter XXXII - A Losing Game
Chapter XXXIII - “There is a Providence That Shapes Our Ends”
Chapter XXXIV - A Duet and a Solo
Chapter XXXV - Driven to Bay
Chapter XXXVI -
Spes et Proemia in Ambiguo
Chapter XXXVII - Binns to the Rescue!
Chapter XXXVIII - Head Against Heart
Chapter XXXIX - Friends in Council
Chapter XL - A Political Apostle
Chapter XLI - Husband and Wife
Chapter XLII - The Beginning of the End
Chapter XLIII - Under the Torture
Chapter XLIV - The Calm Before the Storm
Chapter XLV - The Earthen Pot
Chapter XLVI - The Blow Falls
Chapter XLVII - In the Balance
Chapter XLVIII - Retribution
Chapter XLIX - Long Odds
Chapter L - The Chester Cup
Chapter LI - The Other End of the Chain
Chapter LII - Heart Against Head
Chapter LIII - Nemesis
Chapter LIV -
Certa Funera et Luctus
Chapter LV - Smoke
Chapter LVI - Five Years After
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