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Very good luck
Chapter III.
Kilian
Chapter IV.
My companions
Chapter V.
The tutor
Chapter VI.
Matinal
Chapter VII.
Three weeks too late
Chapter VIII.
Sunday
Chapter IX.
A dance
Chapter X.
Every day from six to seven.
Chapter XI.
Sophie’s work
Chapter XII.
PRAEMONITUS, PRAEMUNITUS
Chapter XIII.
The world goes on the same
Chapter XIV.
Guarded
Chapter XV.
I shall have seen him
Chapter XVI.
August thirtieth
Chapter XVII.
Beside him once again
Chapter XVIII.
A journey
Chapter XIX.
Sister Madeline
Chapter XX.
The hour of dawn
Chapter XXI.
APRES perdre, perd on Bien
Chapter XXII.
A great deal too soon
Chapter XXIII.
A reversal
Chapter XXIV.
My new world
Chapter XXV.
Bien perdu, Bien CONNU
Chapter XXVI.
A dinner
CHAPTER I.
Varick street.
O for one spot of living
green,
One little
spot where leaves can grow,—
To love unblamed, to
walk unseen,
To dream
above, to sleep below!
Holmes.
There are in this loud
stunning tide,
Of human
care and crime,
With whom the melodies
abide
Of th’
everlasting chime;
* * * * *
And to wise hearts this
certain hope is given;
“No mist that
man may raise, shall hide the eye of Heaven.”
Keble.
I never knew exactly how the invitation came; I felt very much honored by it, though I think now, very likely the honor was felt to be upon the other side. I was exceedingly young, and exceedingly ignorant, not seventeen, and an orphan, living in the house of an uncle, an unmarried man of nearly seventy, wholly absorbed in business, and not much more interested in me than in his clerks and servants.
