Mary Elizabeth Braddon 
Mohawks: Volume 2 of 3 

Mohawks is a novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It has 3 volumes. This volume has 12 chapters. example: CHAPTER I. ‘IN OPPOSITION AGAINST FATE AND HELL.»Herrick, ‘ said Lavendale suddenly next day, when the two friends were alone together in the Abbey hall, a spacious chamber, half armoury, half picture-gallery, rich alike in the damascened steel of Damascus and Toledo and in the angular saints and virgins of the early Italian painters; ‘Herrick, you are making love to my heiress; you are cutting off my advance to El Dorado; you are playing the part of a traitor.»’Tis a true bill, Jack. I confess my crime, my treachery—what you will. I adore Irene Bosworth, for whom you care not a straw. I should love her as fondly were she a beggar-girl that I had found by the roadside—’tis for herself I love her, and for no meaner reason. I loved her before you ever saw her face.’