Home Influence: A Tale for Mothers and Daughters
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- HOME INFLUENCE:
- A Tale
- FOR MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS BY GRACE AGUILAR.
- NEW EDITION. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NOS. 329 AND 331 PEARL STREET, (FRANKLIN SQUARE.) 1856.
- PREFACE.
- MEMOIR OF GRACE AGUILAR.
- CONTENTS
- HOME INFLUENCE.
- PART I.
- THE SISTERS.
- CHAPTER I.
- A LAUNCH.—A PROMISE.—A NEW RELATION.
- CHAPTER II.
- GLIMPSES INTO A CHILD'S HEART.—A DEATHBED.
- CHAPTER III.
- RETROSPECTION.—THE LOWLY SOUGHT.—THE HAUGHTY FOILED.
- CHAPTER IV.
- RETROSPECTIVE.—EFFECTS OF COQUETRY.—OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE.
- CHAPTER V.
- A HEART AND HOME IN ENGLAND.—A HEART AND HOME IN INDIA.
- CHAPTER VI.
- DOMESTIC DISCORD AND ITS END.
- PART II.
- TRAITS OF CHARACTER.
- CHAPTER I.
- YOUTHFUL COLLOQUY—INTRODUCING CHARACTER
- CHAPTER II.
- THREE ENGLISH HOMES, AND THEIR INMATES.
- CHAPTER III.
- HOME SCENE.—VISITORS.—CHILDISH MEDITATIONS.
- CHAPTER IV.
- VARIETIES.
- CHAPTER V.
- A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN A PASSION.—A WALK.—A SCENE OF DISTRESS.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CECIL GRAHAME'S PHILOSOPHY.—AN ERROR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.—A MYSTERY AND A CONFIDENCE.
- CHAPTER VII.
- MR. MORTON'S STORY.—A CONFESSION.—A YOUNG PLEADER.—GENEROSITY NOT ALWAYS JUSTICE.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- AN UNPLEASANT PROPOSAL.—THE MYSTERY SOLVED.—A FATHER'S GRIEF FROM A MOTHER'S WEAKNESS.—A FATHER'S JOY FROM A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.
- CHAPTER IX.
- TEMPTATION AND DISOBEDIENCE.—FEAR.—FALSEHOOD AND PUNISHMENT.
- CHAPTER X.
- PAIN AND PENITENCE.—TRUTH IMPRESSED, AND RECONCILIATION.—THE FAMILY TREE.
- CHAPTER XI.
- THE CHILDREN'S BALL.
- CHAPTER XII.
- EFFECTS OF PLEASURE.—THE YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN.—ILL-TEMPER, ITS ORIGIN AND CONSEQUENCES.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- SUSPICION.—A PARTING, A DOUBLE GRIEF.—INNOCENCE PROVED.—WRONG DONE AND EVIL CONFIRMED BY DOUBT.
- PART III.
- SIN AND SUFFERING.
- CHAPTER I.
- ADVANCE AND RETROSPECT.
- CHAPTER II.
- A LETTER, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
- CHAPTER III.
- A SUMMONS AND A LOSS.
- CHAPTER IV.
- THE BROKEN DESK
- CHAPTER V.
- THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE.
- CHAPTER VI.
- THE SENTENCE, AND ITS EXECUTION.
- CHAPTER VII.
- THE LIGHT GLIMMERS.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- THE STRUGGLE.
- CHAPTER IX.
- ILLNESS AND REMORSE.
- CHAPTER X.
- MISTAKEN IMPRESSIONS ERADICATED.
- CHAPTER XI.
- THE LOSS OF THE SIREN.
- CHAPTER XII.
- FOREBODINGS.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- FORGIVENESS.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- THE RICH AND THE POOR.
- CHAPTER XV.
- A HOME SCENE, AND A PARTING.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- THE BIRTHDAY GIFT.
- THE END
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