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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by EMMA M. CONNELLY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

TO THE POET.

HENRY T. STANTON,
(OF FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY,)
THIS BOOK
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

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CONTENTS.

• PROLOGUE. 9
• CHAPTER I. The Old Prison. 13
• CHAPTER II. The Root of the Upas-Tree. 24
• CHAPTER III. Surface Impressions. 30
• CHAPTER IV. Marshaling the Forces. 38
• CHAPTER V. The "Fascinating Scoundrel." 43
• CHAPTER VI. The Chrysalis Develops. 51
• CHAPTER VII. Singed Wings. 58
• CHAPTER VIII. The Ambitious Man with a Career before him, and the Ambitious Man whose Career is closed. 71
• CHAPTER IX. The Unexpected Exit. 78
• CHAPTER X. Drifting with the Current. 83
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• CHAPTER XI. Going Back. 99
• CHAPTER XII. The Beginning which has no Ending. 108
• CHAPTER XIII. Hope Deferred and Hope Verified. 117
• CHAPTER XIV. "Gwynneth's Waking Hour." 126
• CHAPTER XV. The Obstinate Angel. 141
• CHAPTER XVI. That Miss Hughes again. 154
• CHAPTER XVII. "Lashings," but not of "Conscience." 168
• CHAPTER XVIII. Broken Fetters. 178
• CHAPTER XIX. The Unknown Bridegroom. 189
• CHAPTER XX. Domestic Bliss. 199
• CHAPTER XXI. The "Magic Bell." 213
• CHAPTER XXII. Who Conquers? 221
• CHAPTER XXIII. The Life-Like Statue. 233
• CHAPTER XXIV. Infinitude. 244
• CHAPTER XXV. Enumerating One's Blessings. 259
• CHAPTER XXVI. Coercion and Persuasion. 276
• CHAPTER XXVII. The Fruit of the Upas-Tree. 288
• CHAPTER XXVIII. Struggling against the Inevitable. 295
• CHAPTER XXIX. The Monomaniac. 306
• CHAPTER XXX. Love in a Cottage. 322