IN PRESS.
A New Novel By the Author of this Volume ENTITLED TASHLENE.
VICTOIRE. A novel.
He that ruleth his spirit, is greater than he that taketh a city.NEW YORK: Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway.
M DCCC LXIV.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by GEO. W.
CARLETON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
R. CRAIGHEAD, Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper,
Caxton Building,
81, 83, and 85 Centre Street.
CONTENTS.
- THE PARTING, 7
- LES DELICES, 11
- PARIS, 17
- LOVE, 22
- DYING, 27
- A LOVE LETTER, 34
- THE REFUSAL, 39
- VICTOIRE ON THE OCEAN, 47
- MRS. SKINHER AND A FEW OF HER BOARDERS, 51
- BOARDING-HOUSE LIFE, 61
- ORSINO, 65
- IMPROPRIETIES, 70
- A LITERARY WOMAN, 79
- ADVERSITY, 94
- THE COMING BACK, 104
- GETTING WELL, 115
- ANOTHER BOARDING-HOUSE, 122
- VICTOIRE GOES TO WORK.—TRIES HARD TO BE SENSIBLE, 133
- MORNA'S STORY, 139
- MORNA, HOPE, AND VICTOIRE LEAVE THE "COMFORTABLE HOME," 152
- OUR NEW NEIGHBOR, MRS. PEACOCK, 161
- GEORGE WASHINGTON PEACOCK IN A FIRE, 174
- HENRI ROCHELLE, 188
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- HENRI ROCHELLE'S IDEAL WOMAN, 201
- BEL EDEN, 217
- A MARRIAGE BEFORE THE LAST CHAPTER, 233
- A NEW LIFE JUST BEGUN, 244
- LIFE, 259
- "THINGS WHAT HAPPENS ARE STRANGER NOR ALL THE NOVELS."—Mrs. Peacock, 277
- AMBROSE MONCRIEFFE, 290
- SOCIETY, 307
- TEMPTATION, 325
- "FREE LOVE," 344
- HOPE, 351
- JEALOUSY AND CONQUEST, 364
- A WEDDING IN THE LAST CHAPTER, 378
