Chapters (37)
- MODESTE MIGNON
- Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- MODESTE MIGNON
- ADDENDUM
- MODESTE MIGNON
- CHAPTER I. THE CHALET
- CHAPTER II. A PORTRAIT FROM LIFE
- CHAPTER III. PRELIMINARIES
- CHAPTER IV. A SIMPLE STORY
- CHAPTER V. THE PROBLEM STILL UNSOLVED
- CHAPTER VI. A MAIDEN’S FIRST ROMANCE
- CHAPTER VII. A POET OF THE ANGELIC SCHOOL
- CHAPTER VIII. BLADE TO BLADE
- CHAPTER IX. THE POWER OF THE UNSEEN
- CHAPTER X. THE MARRIAGE OF SOULS
- CHAPTER XI. WHAT COMES OF CORRESPONDENCE
- CHAPTER XII. A DECLARATION OF LOVE,—SET TO MUSIC
- CHAPTER XIII. A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF MONSIEUR DE LA BRIERE
- CHAPTER XIV. MATTERS GROWN COMPLICATED
- CHAPTER XV. A FATHER STEPS IN
- CHAPTER XVI. DISENCHANTED
- CHAPTER XVII. A THIRD SUITOR
- CHAPTER XVIII. A SPLENDID FIRST APPEARANCE
- CHAPTER XIX. OF WHICH THE AUTHOR THINKS A GOOD DEAL
- “I.”
- CHAPTER XX. THE POET DOES HIS EXERCISES
- CHAPTER XXI. MODESTE PLAYS HER PART
- CHAPTER XXII. A RIDDLE GUESSED
- CHAPTER XXIII. BUTSCHA DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF
- CHAPTER XXIV. THE POET FEELS THAT HE IS LOVED TOO WELL
- CHAPTER XXV. A DIPLOMATIC LETTER
- CHAPTER XXVI. TRUE LOVE
- CHAPTER XXVII. A GIRL’S REVENGE
- CHAPTER XXVIII. MODESTE BEHAVES WITH DIGNITY
- CHAPTER XXIX. CONCLUSION
- ADDENDUM
- The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
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