Consequences A Novel Author:Egerton Castle General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and co. Subjects: Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories Fiction / Short Stories Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos... more » or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: She bent her pretty ear to listen at the door; nothing but the sound of the regular breathing within broke the stillness. The daylong effort of acting indifference had tired her; the ill success of her tactics had depressed her. She had no wish to thwart him more; she would be humble, docile, do all that he desired. She only wanted to be forgiven, but a strange diffidence kept her from him. He had dined by himself in his room, he had retired without seeing her, and was now sleeping -- sleeping while she cried. Now and then she would hold her breath and again listen. Surely George would hear her, would feel she was miserable, ay, that she was repentant, and he would hasten to her, overcome with remorse, with the old tenderness, the old caresses, she now yearned for so passionately. At last, in an agony of sobs, burying her face in the pillow to shut out the darkness of her solitude, she cried herself to sleep. On what trivial events does the course of a whole life depend. Had the manly fellow who lay so neap to her slept but one jot less soundly in his exhaustion, had the sound of her weeping -- Carmen weeping otherwise than in anger ! -- but filtered to his ear, had he suspected the cause of her distress, how different might have been their future, and that of so many others ! CHAPTER VI. THE SEAFOAM BIRTH OF DAVID FARGUS. Early in the afternoon of the next day George entered the Old Quebec Hotel, Portsmouth. That old-fashioned and dingy...« less