NAMELESS. A NOVEL.
BYFANNY MURDAUGH DOWNING.
"All life needs for life is possible to will." TENNYSON.RALEIGH, N. C.: WM. B. SMITH & CO.
M DCCC LXV.Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by WM. B. SMITH & COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
TO
THE OLD FRIEND
WHO FIRST SUGGESTED
THE WRITING OF THIS BOOK,
IT IS
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. MY LADY. 9
- CHAPTER II. AT HAUGHTON HALL. 15
- CHAPTER III. TRAVIATA. 22
- CHAPTER IV. VIOLET. 32
- CHAPTER V. MR. OSBORNE BEGINS TO PLOT. 37
- CHAPTER VI. MR. OSBORNE MAKES A DISCOVERY. 44
- CHAPTER VII. THE VALUE OF A BRACELET. 50
- CHAPTER VIII. BLIGHTED HAPPINESS. 56
- CHAPTER IX. IN SOCIETY. 64
- CHAPTER X. THE MAGIC RING. 71
- CHAPTER XI. MR. HAMILTON LEAVES IT TO FATE. 80
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- CHAPTER XII. COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS. 85
- CHAPTER XIII. MR. HAMILTON ASSERTS HIS MASTERY. 96
- CHAPTER XIV. MAM'SELLE PROCEEDS TO CRUSH HER LADY. 103
- CHAPTER XV. WHICH WINS? 108
- CHAPTER XVI. LADY HAUGHTON ABDICATES. 117
- CHAPTER XVII. LUCRE VERSUS LOVE. 125
- CHAPTER XVIII. UNDER THE SHADOW. 134
- CHAPTER XIX. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. 144
- CHAPTER XX. MR. OSBORNE'S TRIUMPH. 154
- CHAPTER XXI PSYCHE. 163
- CHAPTER XXII. LORD CHESTER RUNS AWAY FROM TROUBLE. 172
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE LUXURY OF REVENGE. 180
- CHAPTER XXIV. DE PROFUNDIS. 199
- CHAPTER XXV. CHRISTMAS GIFTS. 217
- CHAPTER XXVI. PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERING. 221