THE GRANDISSIMES

BY GEORGE W. CABLE

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

ALBERT HERTER

MDCCCXCIX

1899

CONTENTS

• I. Masked Batteries.
• II. The Fate of the Immigrant.
• III. "And who is my Neighbor?"
• IV. Family Trees.
• V. A Maiden who will not Marry.
• VI. Lost Opportunities.
• VII. Was it Honoré Grandissime?
• VIII. Signed--Honoré Grandissime.
• IX. Illustrating the Tractive Power of Basil.
• X. "Oo dad is, 'Sieur Frowenfel'?"
• XI. Sudden Flashes of Light.
• XII. The Philosophe.
• XIII. A Call from the Rent-Spectre.
• XIV. Before Sunset.
• XV. Rolled in the Dust.
• XVI. Starlight in the rue Chartres.
• XVII. That Night.
• XVIII. New Light upon Dark Places.
• XIX. Art and Commerce.
• XX. A very Natural Mistake.
• XXI. Doctor Keene Recovers his Bullet.
• XXII. Wars within the Breast.
• XXIII. Frowenfeld Keeps his Appointment.
• XXIV. Frowenfeld Makes an Argument.
• XXV. Aurora as a Historian.
• XXVI. A Ride and a Rescue.
• XXVII. The Fête de Grandpère.
• XXVIII. The Story of Bras-Coupé.
• XXIX. The Story of Bras-Coupé, Continued.
• XXX. Paralysis.
• XXXI. Another Wound in a New Place.
• XXXII. Interrupted Preliminaries.
• XXXIII. Unkindest Cut of All.
• XXXIV. Clotilde as a Surgeon.
• XXXV. "Fo' wad you Cryne?"
• XXXVI. Aurora's Last Picayune.
• XXXVII. Honoré Makes some Confessions.
• XXXVIII. Tests of Friendship.
• XXXIX. Louisiana States her Wants.
• XL. Frowenfeld Finds Sylvestre.