Bressant: A Novel

Bressant: A Novel

CHAPTER I.HOW PROFESSOR VALEYON LOSES HIS HANDKERCHIEF CHAPTER II.SIGNS OF A THUNDER-SHOWER CHAPTER III.SOPHIE AND CORNELIA ENTER INTO A COVENANT CHAPTER IV.A BUSINESS TRANSACTION CHAPTER V.BRESSANT PICKS A TEA-ROSE CHAPTER VI.CORNELIA BEGINS TO UNDO A KNOT CHAPTER VII.PROFESSOR VALEYON MAKES A CALL CHAPTER VIII.GREAT EXPECTATIONS CHAPTER IX.THE DAGUERREOTYPE CHAPTER X.ONLY FOR TO-NIGHT! CHAPTER XI.EVERY LITTLE COUNTS CHAPTER XII.DOLLY ACTS AN IMPORTANT PART CHAPTER XIII.A KEEPSAKE CHAPTER XIV.NURSING CHAPTER XV.AN UNTIMELY REMINISCENCE CHAPTER XVI.PARTING AN ANCHOR CHAPTER XVII.SOPHIE'S CONFESSION CHAPTER XVIII.A FLANK MOVEMENT CHAPTER XIX.AN INTERMISSION CHAPTER XX.BRESSANT CONFIDES A SECRET TO THE FOUNTAIN CHAPTER XXI.PUTTING ON THE ARMOR CHAPTER XXII.LOCKED UP CHAPTER XXIII.ARMED NEUTRALITY CHAPTER XXIV.A BIT OF INSPIRATION CHAPTER XXV.ANOTHER INTERMISSION CHAPTER XXVI.BRESSANT TAKES A VACATION CHAPTER XXVII.FACT AND FANCY CHAPTER XXVIII.A DISAPPOINTMENT CHAPTER XXIX.FOUND CHAPTER XXX.LOST CHAPTER XXXI.MOTHER AND SON CHAPTER XXXII.WHERE TWO ROADS MEET CHAPTER XXXIII.TILL THE ELEVENTH HOUR CHAPTER XXXIV.THE HOUR AND THE MAN One warm afternoon in Junethe warmest of the season thus farProfessor Valeyon sat, smoking a black clay pipe, upon the broad balcony, which extended all across the back of his house, and overlooked three acres of garden, inclosed by a solid stone-wall. All the doors in the house were open, and most of the windows, so that any one passing in the road might have looked up through the gabled porch and the passage-way, which divided the house, so to speak, into two parts, and seen the professor's brown-linen legs, and slippers down at the heel, projecting into view beyond the framework of the balcony-door. Indeedfor the professor was an elderly man, and, in many respects, a creature of habitprecisely this same phenomenon could have been observed on any fine afternoon during the summer, even to the exact amount of brown-linen leg visible. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 15596
Author: Hawthorne, Julian
Release Date: Apr 9, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English