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Fashion and Famine. Ann S. Stephens
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Автор произведения Ann S. Stephens
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Ann S. Stephens
Fashion and Famine
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066157456
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE STRAWBERRY GIRL.
CHAPTER III. THE LONE MANSION.
CHAPTER IV. THE ASTOR HOUSE AND THE ATTIC ROOM.
CHAPTER V. MISTRESS AND SERVANT.
CHAPTER VI. THE TEMPTER AND THE TEMPTED.
CHAPTER VII. THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
CHAPTER VIII. THE CITY COTTAGE.
CHAPTER IX. MRS. GRAY'S THANKSGIVING DINNER.
CHAPTER X. THE BROTHER'S RETURN.
CHAPTER XI. THE MOTHER'S LETTER.
CHAPTER XII. STRIFE FOR AN EARL.
CHAPTER XIII. THE MORNING LESSON.
CHAPTER XIV. A WEDDING FORESHADOWED.
CHAPTER XV. THE MOTHER'S APPEAL.
CHAPTER XVI. THE BRIDAL WREATH.
CHAPTER XVII. AN HOUR BEFORE THE BALL.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE FORGED CHECK.
CHAPTER XIX. NIGHT AND MORNING.
CHAPTER XX. THE LAST INTERVIEW.
CHAPTER XXII. THE IMPRISONED WITNESS.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE THREE OLD WOMEN.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE FIRST NIGHT IN PRISON.
CHAPTER XXVI. MRS. GRAY AND THE PRISON WOMAN.
CHAPTER XXVII. STRUGGLES AND REVELS.
CHAPTER XXVIII. ADA LEICESTER AND JACOB STRONG.
CHAPTER XXIX. ADA'S SOLITARY BREAKFAST.
CHAPTER XXX. THE PRISON WOMAN IN ADA'S DRESSING-ROOM.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE TOMBS LAWYER.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE LAWYER'S VISIT TO HIS CLIENT.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE TRIAL FOR MURDER.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE TWO WITNESSES.
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE PARENTS, THE CHILD AND GRANDCHILD.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE DAWNING OF LIGHT.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. GATHERING FOR THE EXECUTION.
CHAPTER XXXIX. HEARTS AND CONSCIENCES AT REST.
Preface.
What shall I say in this Preface to my book? Shall I make the usual half-sincere, half-affected apology of haste and inexperience, with hints of improvement in future efforts? Indeed I cannot, for though this volume really is the first novel ever printed in book form under my name, its imperfections, whatever they are, arise from no inexperience or undue haste, but from absolute lack of power to accomplish that which I have undertaken. Nor is it probable that the points in which I have failed here, would be very greatly improved were the same book to be written again.
I have endeavored to make this book a good one. If I have failed it is because the power has not been granted to me by the Source of all power, and for deficiency like this, the only admissible apology would be for having written at all. But excuses are out of place here. The book, with all its faults, is frankly surrendered to the public judgment, asking neither favoritism or forbearance, save that favoritism which deals gently with unintentional error, and that forbearance which no American ever withholds from a woman. Shall I say that this volume is launched on the world with fear and trembling? That would express an ungrateful want of faith