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CONTENTS. CHAPTEH PAGE . XV. I. HOW PROFESSOR VALEYON LOSES HIS HANDKERCHIEF . 5 II. SIGNS OF A THUNDER-SHOWER ... 18 III. SOPHIE AND CORNELIA ENTER INTO A COVENANT . 31 IV. A BUSINESS TRANSACTION .... 41 V. BRESSANT PICKS A TEA-ROSE 63 VI. CORNELIA BEGINS TO UNDO A KNOT . . . 67 VII. PROFESSOR VALETON MAKES A CALL .... 76 VIII. GREAT EXPECTATIONS 88 IX. THE DAGUERREOTYPE 95 x. ONLY FOR TO-NIGHT 104 XI. EVERY LITTLE COUNTS 11G XII. DOLLY ACTS AN IMPORTANT PART . . . . 122 XIII. A KEEPSAKE 134 XIV. NURSING 145 AN UNTIMELY REMINISCENCE 155 XVI. PARTING AN ANCHOR 164 xvii. SOPHIES CONFESSION 181 XVIII. A FLANK MOVEMENT 188 XIX. AN INTERMISSION 203 XX. BRESSANT CONFIDES A SECRET TO THE FOUNTAIN . 211 XXI. PUTTING ON THE ARMOR 220 XXII. LOCKED UP 229 XXIII. ARMED NEUTRALITY 243 XXIV. A BIT OF INSPIRATION 255 XXV. ANOTHER INTERMISSION . ., 265 4 CONTENTS. CHAPTKB PAGB XXVI. BEESSANT TAKES A VACATION .... 276 XXVII. FACT AND FANCY . . ., . . .289 XXVIII. A DISAPPOINTMENT . . . . . SOI XXIX. FOUND 313 xxx. LOST 323 XXXI. MOTHER AND SON 330 XXXII. WHERE TWO KOADS MEET 341 XXXIII. TILL THE ELEVENTH HOUR . . . 353 XXXIV. THE HOUR AND THE MAN .... 308 BEESSANT. CHAPTER I. HOW PROFESSOR VALEYOX LOSES HIS nANDKEECHIEF. warm afternoon in June the warmest of the season thus far ProfessorValeyon 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 theprofessors brown-linen legs, and slippers down at the heel, projecting intoview beyond the framework of the balcony-door. Indeed for the professor was an elderly man, and, in many respects, a creature of habit precisely this same phenomenon could have been ob served on any fine afternoon during the summer, even to the exact amount of brown-linen leg visible. Why the old gentlemans chair should always have been so placed as to allow a view of so much of his G BEESSANT. anatomy and no more is a question of too subtle and abstruse conditions to be solved here. One reason doubtless lay in the fact that, by craning forward over his knees, he could see down the passage-way, through the porch, and across the grass-plotwhich intervened be tween the house and the fence, to the road, thus com manding all approaches from that direction, while his outlook on either side, and in front, remained as good as from any other position whatsoever. To be sure, the result would have been more easily accomplished had the chair been moved two feet farther forward, but that would have made the professor too much a public spec tacle, and, although by no means backward in appear ing, at the fitting time, before his fellow-men, he en joyed and required a certain amount of privacy. Moreover, it was not toward the road that Professor Valeyons eyes were most often turned. They gener ally wandered southward, over the ample garden, and across the long, winding valley, to the range of roughbacked hills, which abruptly invaded the farther hori zon. It was a sufficiently varied and vigorous pros pect, and one which years had endeared to the old gentleman, as if it were the features of a friend. Es peciallywas he fond oflooking at a certain open space, near the summit of a high, wooded hill, directly oppo site. It was like an oasis among a desert of trees. Had it become overgrown, or had the surrounding tim ber been cut away, the professor would have taken it much to heart...
| ISBN-13 | 9781406729207 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1406729205 |
| Weight | 1.07 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.51 x 0.83 x 8.50 In |
| List Price | $31.45 |
| Format | - |
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| Pages | 384 pages |
| Publisher | Crastre Pr |
| Published On | 2007-10-01 |
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