The Project Gutenberg eBook, Bressant, by Julian Hawthorne

Title: Bressant

Author: Julian Hawthorne

Release Date: April 9, 2005 [eBook #15596]

Language: English

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BRESSANT

A NOVEL

by

JULIAN HAWTHORNE

1873

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.—HOW PROFESSOR VALEYON LOSES HIS HANDKERCHIEF
CHAPTER II.—SIGNS OF A THUNDER-SHOWER
CHAPTER III.—SOPHIE AND CORNELIA ENTER INTO A COVENANT
CHAPTER IV.—A BUSINESS TRANSACTION
CHAPTER V.—BRESSANT PICKS A TEA-ROSE
CHAPTER VI.—CORNELIA BEGINS TO UNDO A KNOT
CHAPTER VII.—PROFESSOR VALEYON MAKES A CALL
CHAPTER VIII.—GREAT EXPECTATIONS
CHAPTER IX.—THE DAGUERREOTYPE
CHAPTER X.—ONLY FOR TO-NIGHT!
CHAPTER XI.—EVERY LITTLE COUNTS
CHAPTER XII.—DOLLY ACTS AN IMPORTANT PART
CHAPTER XIII.—A KEEPSAKE
CHAPTER XIV.—NURSING
CHAPTER XV.—AN UNTIMELY REMINISCENCE
CHAPTER XVI.—PARTING AN ANCHOR
CHAPTER XVII.—SOPHIE'S CONFESSION
CHAPTER XVIII.—A FLANK MOVEMENT
CHAPTER XIX.—AN INTERMISSION
CHAPTER XX.—BRESSANT CONFIDES A SECRET TO THE FOUNTAIN
CHAPTER XXI.—PUTTING ON THE ARMOR
CHAPTER XXII.—LOCKED UP
CHAPTER XXIII.—ARMED NEUTRALITY
CHAPTER XXIV.—A BIT OF INSPIRATION
CHAPTER XXV.—ANOTHER INTERMISSION
CHAPTER XXVI.—BRESSANT TAKES A VACATION
CHAPTER XXVII.—FACT AND FANCY
CHAPTER XXVIII.—A DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XXIX.—FOUND
CHAPTER XXX.—LOST
CHAPTER XXXI.—MOTHER AND SON
CHAPTER XXXII.—WHERE TWO ROADS MEET
CHAPTER XXXIII.—TILL THE ELEVENTH HOUR
CHAPTER XXXIV.—THE HOUR AND THE MAN

CHAPTER I.

HOW PROFESSOR VALEYON LOSES HIS HANDKERCHIEF.

One warm afternoon in June—the warmest of the season thus far—Professor Valeyon sat, smoking a black clay pipe, upon