ZIBELINE

By Philippe De Massa

Translated By D. Knowlton Ranous

CONTENTS

ALEXANDRE-PHILIPPE-REGNIER DE MASSA

LETTER FROM JULES CLARETIE TO THE AUTHOR

ZIBELINE


BOOK 1.

CHAPTER I. LES FRERES-PROVENCAUX

CHAPTER II. BIRDS OF PREY

CHAPTER III. THE GAME

CHAPTER IV. THE RESULT

CHAPTER V. A DESPERATE RESOLUTION

CHAPTER VI. THE FAREWELL

CHAPTER VII. THE VOW

CHAPTER VIII. IN SEARCH OF GLORY

CHAPTER IX. THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE

CHAPTER X. GENERAL DE PREROLLES

CHAPTER XI. EUGENIE GONTIER

CHAPTER XII. RIVAL BEAUTIES

BOOK 2.

CHAPTER XIII. THE INDUSTRIAL ORPHAN ASYLUM

CHAPTER XIV. A WOMAN'S INSTINCT

CHAPTER XV. DEFIANCE OF MRS. GRUNDY

CHAPTER XVI. FRATERNAL ADVICE

CHAPTER XVII. THE LADY BOUNTIFUL

CHAPTER XVIII. A MODERN TARTUFE

CHAPTER XIX. BROKEN TIES

BOOK 3.

CHAPTER XX. ZIBELINE RECEIVES

CHAPTER XXI. A DASHING AMAZON

CHAPTER XXII. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING

CHAPTER XXIII. THE MILITARY REVIEW

CHAPTER XXIV. THE CHALLENGE

CHAPTER XXV. THE AMAZON HAS A FALL

CHAPTER XXVI. AN UNCONSCIOUS AVOWAL

CHAPTER XXVII. DISTRACTION

CHAPTER XXVIII.   THE VOW REDEEMED

CHAPTER XXIX. THE MARQUISE DE PREROLLES

ALEXANDRE-PHILIPPE-REGNIER DE MASSA

MARQUIS DE MASSA, soldier, composer, and French dramatist, was born in Paris, December 5, 1831. He selected the military career and received a commission in the cavalry after leaving the school of St. Cyr. He served in the Imperial Guards, took part in the Italian and Franco-German Wars and was promoted Chief of Squadron, Fifth Regiment, Chasseurs a Cheval, September 10, 1871. Having tendered his resignation from active service, he was appointed a lieutenant-colonel in the territorial army February 3, 1880. He has been decorated with the Legion of Honor.

The Marquis de Massa is known as a composer of music and as a dramatic author and novelist. At the Opera Comique there was represented in 1861 Royal-Cravate, written by him. Fragments of two operas by him were performed at the Paris Conservatory of Music in 1865, and in 1868. The list of his principal plays follows: 'Le Service en campagne, comedy (1882); La Cicatrice, comedy (1885); Au Mont Ida, Fronsac a La Bastille, and La Coeur de