A Fair Barbarian
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About This Book
Miss Belinda Bassett's niece arrives in a small England town. Octavia Bassett arrives from Nevada with her trunks of fancy clothes, diamond jewelry, and gold coins for the poor. She soon becomes friends with Lucia Gaston, the repressed granddaughter of the village matriarch, Lady Theobald.
Chapters (29)
- A FAIR BARBARIAN
- 1881
- A FAIR BARBARIAN.
- CHAPTER I. — MISS OCTAVIA BASSETT.
- CHAPTER II. — "AN INVESTMENT, ANYWAY."
- CHAPTER III. — L'ARGENTVILLE.
- CHAPTER IV. — LADY THEOBALD.
- CHAPTER V. — LUCIA.
- CHAPTER VI. — ACCIDENTAL.
- CHAPTER VII. — "I SHOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE OF SLOWBRIDGE."
- CHAPTER VIII. — SHARES LOOKING UP.
- CHAPTER IX. — WHITE MUSLIN.
- CHAPTER X. — ANNOUNCING MR. BAROLD.
- CHAPTER XI. — A SLIGHT INDISCRETION.
- CHAPTER XII. — AN INVITATION.
- CHAPTER XIII. — INTENTIONS.
- CHAPTER XIV. — A CLERICAL VISIT.
- CHAPTER XV. — SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES.
- CHAPTER XVI. — CROQUET.
- CHAPTER XVII. — ADVANTAGES.
- CHAPTER XVIII. — CONTRAST.
- CHAPTER XIX. — AN EXPERIMENT.
- CHAPTER XX. — PECULIAR TO NEVADA.
- CHAPTER XXI. — LORD LANSDOWNE.
- CHAPTER XXII. — "YOU HAVE MADE IT LIVELIER."
- CHAPTER XXIII. — "MAY I GO?"
- CHAPTER XXIV. — THE GARDEN-PARTY.
- CHAPTER XXV. — "SOMEBODY ELSE."
- CHAPTER XXVI. — "JACK."
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