Category: Novels
Eden: An Episode
Produced by Adam Buchbinder, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
Category: Novels
Produced by Adam Buchbinder, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
"Ah! but I did though. Between ourselves I thought it not uninteresting. After all, it was not his fault. I thought it unadvisable that you should learn of it before marriage, a...
5. Chapter 5That plastron she now wore. Her gown, which was cut a trifle lower on the back than on the neck, was of a hue that suggested the blending of sulphur and of salmon. Her arms were...
3. Chapter 3In Dogian days there was a Libro d'Oro in which the First Families of Venice were inscribed in illuminated script. In New York there is also a Golden Book, unwritten, yet voiced...
7. Chapter 7Maule, however, was not in any sense indisposed, and as evidence of it he walked far up Fifth Avenue, and on through the outskirts of the Park. It was his intention, self-avowed...
4. Chapter 4"Yes, Eden, that I will. It is good of you to speak that way. It is not only good, it is Edenesque. But let me tell you the rest. Governor Blanchford is in town. I went yesterda...
2. Chapter 2During the intervening months she had been wholly content. She had not led the existence of which at sixteen she had dreamed in the recesses of her father's library, nor yet suc...
1. Chapter 1Produced by Adam Buchbinder, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain materia...
8. Chapter 8It was the room that she had occupied during her girlhood to which she then went, and in the presence of the familiar walls, something reminded her of the days in which she had...
9. Chapter 9"This is a genuine American fairy tale, and, so far as we can remember, the first and only one that can lay claim to the title."--_Daily Times, Troy, N. Y._
10. Chapter 10Belford's Magazine advocates the extinguishment of the surplus by a reduction of the present iniquitous and burdensome Tariff in the direction of Free-Trade or of a tariff for r...