Other Fiction Rowlands, Effie Adelaide: The Fault of One. v1. 14 Jan 2016

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Effie Adelaide Maria Albanesi, née Henderson (New South Wales, Australia, 1859 – 16 October 1936, London, England), better known by her usual pen name of Effie Adelaide Rowlands, was a British novelist. She was the author of more than 250 six-penny (dime) novels.

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He had put himself on the top of this particular ’bus in a fit of deepest depression. It was immaterial to him where he went—what he did. Fortune had ebbed down to its lowest with him. He had faced the fight bravely; against all sorts of odds he had struggled on, and now, when a final and unexpected blow had fallen, he felt suddenly as if he could struggle on no longer—as if life were for the moment done. He sat alone on the front seat of the omnibus. He gave no attention to others, and the last thought in his troubled mind would have been the idea that some one’s attention was drawn to him. Therefore it was with a great start—a start that brought a wave of colour for an instant into his pale, handsome face—that he felt the ’bus driver’s whip touch his arm.

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