A Siren
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Chapters (68)
- A SIREN
- CONTENTS
- BOOK I Ash Wednesday Morning
- CHAPTER I The Last Night of Carnival
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III St. Apollinare in Classe
- CHAPTER IV Father Fabiano
- CHAPTER V "The Hours passed, and still she came not"
- CHAPTER VI Gigia's Opinion
- CHAPTER VII An Attorney-at-law in the Papal States
- CHAPTER VIII Lost in the Forest
- CHAPTER IX "Passa la Bella Donna e par che dorma"—Tasso
- BOOK II Four Months before that Ash Wednesday Morning
- CHAPTER I How the good News came to Ravenna
- CHAPTER II The Marchese Lamberto di Castelmare
- CHAPTER III The Impresario's Report
- CHAPTER IV Paolina Foscarelli
- CHAPTER V Rivalry
- CHAPTER VI The Beginning of Trouble
- CHAPTER VII The Teaching of a Great Love
- CHAPTER VIII A Change in the Situation
- CHAPTER IX Uncle and Nephew
- CHAPTER X The Contessa Violante
- CHAPTER XI The Cardinal's Reception, and the Marchese's Ball
- CHAPTER XII The Arrival of the "Diva"
- BOOK III "Sirenum Pocula"
- CHAPTER I "Diva Potens"
- CHAPTER II An Adopted Father and an Adopted Daughter
- CHAPTER III "Armed at All Points"
- CHAPTER IV Throwing the Line
- CHAPTER V After-thoughts
- CHAPTER VI At the Circolo
- CHAPTER VII Extremes Meet
- CHAPTER VIII The Diva shows her Cards
- CHAPTER IX One Struggle more
- BOOK IV The last Days of the Carnival
- CHAPTER I In the Cardinal's Chapel
- CHAPTER II The Corso
- CHAPTER III "La Sonnambula"
- CHAPTER IV The Marchese Lamberto's Correspondence
- CHAPTER V Bianca at Home
- CHAPTER VI Paolina at Home
- CHAPTER VII Two Interviews
- CHAPTER VIII A Carnival Reception
- CHAPTER IX Paolina's Return to the City
- BOOK V Who Did the Deed?
- CHAPTER I At the City Gate
- CHAPTER II Suspicion
- CHAPTER III Guilty or not Guilty?
- CHAPTER IV The Marchese hears the Ill News
- CHAPTER V Doubts and Possibilities
- CHAPTER VI At the Circolo again
- CHAPTER VII A Prison Visit
- CHAPTER VIII Signor Giovacchino Fortini at Home
- CHAPTER IX The Post-Mortem Examination
- CHAPTER X Public Opinion
- CHAPTER XI In Father Fabiano's Cell
- CHAPTER XII The Case against Paolina
- BOOK VI Poena Pede Claudo
- CHAPTER I Signor Fortini receives the Signora Steno in his Studio
- CHAPTER II Was it Paolina after all?
- CHAPTER III Could it have been the Aged Friar?
- CHAPTER IV What Ravenna thought of it
- CHAPTER V "Miserrimus"
- CHAPTER VI The Trial
- CHAPTER VII The Friar's Testimony
- CHAPTER VIII The Truth!
- CHAPTER IX Conclusion
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