Chapters (80)
- MIRANDA
- OF THE BALCONY
- A STORY
- A. E. W. MASON
- New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. 1899
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- MIRANDA OF THE BALCONY
- CHAPTER I
- IN WHICH A SHORT-SIGHTED TAXIDERMIST FROM TANGIER MAKES A DISCOVERY UPON ROSEVEAR
- CHAPTER II
- PRESENTS THE HERO IN THE UNHEROIC ATTITUDE OF A SPECTATOR
- CHAPTER III
- TREATS OF A GENTLEMAN WITH AN AGREEABLE COUNTENANCE, AND OF A WOMAN'S FACE IN A MIRROR
- CHAPTER IV
- TREATS OF THE FIRST MEETING BETWEEN CHARNOCK AND MIRANDA
- CHAPTER V
- WHEREIN CHARNOCK AND MIRANDA IMPROVE THEIR ACQUAINTANCESHIP IN A BALCONY
- CHAPTER VI
- WHILE CHARNOCK BUILDS CASTLES IN SPAIN, MIRANDA RETURNS THERE
- CHAPTER VII
- IN WHICH MAJOR WILBRAHAM DESCRIBES THE STEPS BY WHICH HE ATTAINED HIS MAJORITY, AND GIVES MIRANDA SOME PARTICULAR INFORMATION
- CHAPTER VIII
- EXPLAINS THE MYSTERY OF THE "TARIFA'S" CARGO
- CHAPTER IX
- SHOWS THE USE WHICH A BLIND MAN MAY MAKE OF A DARK NIGHT A WEEK
- CHAPTER X
- M. FOURNIER EXPOUNDS THE ADVANTAGES WHICH EACH SEX HAS OVER THE OTHER
- CHAPTER XI
- IN WHICH MIRANDA ADOPTS A NEW LINE OF CONDUCT AND THE MAJOR EXPRESSES SOME DISCONTENT
- CHAPTER XII
- THE HERO, LIKE ALL HEROES, FINDS HIMSELF IN A FOG
- CHAPTER XIII
- WHEREIN THE HERO'S PERPLEXITIES INCREASE
- CHAPTER XIV
- MIRANDA PROFESSES REGRET FOR A PRACTICAL JOKE
- CHAPTER XV
- IN WHICH THE MAJOR LOSES HIS TEMPER AND RECOVERS IT
- CHAPTER XVI
- EXPLAINS WHY CHARNOCK SAW MIRANDA'S FACE IN HIS MIRROR
- CHAPTER XVII
- SHOWS HOW A TOMBSTONE MAY CONVINCE WHEN ARGUMENTS FAIL
- CHAPTER XVIII
- IN WHICH THE TAXIDERMIST AND A BASHA PREVAIL OVER A BLIND MAN
- CHAPTER XIX
- TELLS OF CHARNOCK'S WANDERINGS IN MOROCCO AND OF A WALNUT-WOOD DOOR
- CHAPTER XX
- CHARNOCK, LIKE THE TAXIDERMIST, FINDS WARRINER ANYTHING BUT A COMFORTABLE COMPANION
- CHAPTER XXI
- COMPLETES THE JOURNEYINGS OF THIS INCONGRUOUS COUPLE
- CHAPTER XXII
- IN WHICH CHARNOCK ASTONISHES RALPH WARRINER
- CHAPTER XXIII
- RELATES A SECOND MEETING BETWEEN CHARNOCK AND MIRANDA
- CHAPTER XXIV
- A MIST IN THE CHANNEL ENDS, AS IT BEGAN, THE BOOK
- THE END.
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