# The Initials: A Story of Modern Life

Author: Tautphoeus, Jemima Montgomery, Baroness, 1807-1893

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58908

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Initials%3A+A+Story+of+Modern+Life+Tautphoeus&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“I have continued to take notes most carefully of everything I have seen or heard since I left you; but I fear, my dear sister, the travels or wanderings, or sketches with which I intended to astonish the world on my return home, must be given up; for in the present day one can travel from London to Jericho without a chance of seeing anything not already succinctly described in the guide-books! I thought I had discovered why my brother John never met with any amusing adventures when my father sent him abroad. He spoke wretched French, and no German. Poor fellow; I did him great injustice. For even I, who, from not being the first-born, have a sort of natural claim to intellect—even I, who...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/15/index.md)
- [letter I shall transcribe.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/46/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/38/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/41/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/37/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XL.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/40/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/36/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/45/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/39/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/44/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/42/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/43/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/47/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-initials-a-story-of-modern-life-58908/chapters/35/index.md)