Chapters (24)
- A Few Short Sketches By Douglass Sherley
- Printed by John P. Morton & Co. Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
- MDCCCXCIII
- THOSE RUSSIAN VIOLETS
- TO LADY VIOLET
- I
- THOSE RUSSIAN VIOLETS
- FIVE RED POPPIES
- TO LADY VIOLET AGAIN
- II
- FIVE RED POPPIES
- THE NEW CURE FOR HEART-BREAK
- TO LITTLE MISS PREVIOUS
- III
- THE NEW CURE FOR HEART-BREAK
- A CHRISTMAS GIFT STORY
- THE LITTLE BLIND MAID
- TO LADY CHARLOTTE
- IV
- THE LITTLE BLIND MAID
- THE PRIEST AND THE WOMAN
- TO A NUN WITHOUT CLOISTER
- V
- THE PRIEST AND THE WOMAN
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