# Elsie Venner

Author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2696

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Elsie+Venner+Holmes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There is nothing in New England corresponding at all to the feudal aristocracies of the Old World. Whether it be owing to the stock from which we were derived, or to the practical working of our institutions, or to the abrogation of the technical “law of honor,” which draws a sharp line between the personally responsible class of “gentlemen” and the unnamed multitude of those who are not expected to risk their lives for an abstraction,--whatever be the cause, we have no such aristocracy here as that which grew up out of the military systems of the Middle Ages.

## Chapters

- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elsie-venner-2696/chapters/9/index.md)