The Initials: A Story of Modern Life

Name: The Initials: A Story of Modern Life
Author: Baroness Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus

by Baroness Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus

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Chapters (50)

THE INITIALS
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
I. THE LETTER.
CHAPTER II. THE INITIALS.
CHAPTER III. A. Z.
CHAPTER IV. A WALK OF NO COMMON DESCRIPTION.
CHAPTER V. AN ALP.
CHAPTER VI. SECULARISED CLOISTERS.
CHAPTER VII. AN EXCURSION AND RETURN TO THE SECULARISED CLOISTERS.
CHAPTER VIII. AN ALPINE PARTY.
CHAPTER IX. SALZBURG.
CHAPTER X. THE RETURN TO MUNICH.
CHAPTER XI. THE BETROTHAL.
CHAPTER XII. DOMESTIC DETAILS.
CHAPTER XIII. A TRUCE.
CHAPTER XIV. A NEW WAY TO LEARN GERMAN.
CHAPTER XV. THE OCTOBER FÊTE, AND A LESSON ON PROPRIETY OF CONDUCT.
CHAPTER XVI. THE AU FAIR, AND THE SUPPER AT THE BREWERY.
CHAPTER XVII. LOVERS’ QUARRELS.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE CHURCHYARD.
CHAPTER XIX. GERMAN SOUP
CHAPTER XX. THE WARNING.
CHAPTER XXI. THE STRUGGLE.
CHAPTER XXII. THE DEPARTURE.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE LONG DAY.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE CHRISTMAS-TREE, AND MIDNIGHT MASS.
CHAPTER XXV. THE GARRET.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE DISCUSSION.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SLEDGE.
CHAPTER XXVIII. A BALL AT THE MUSEUM CLUB.
CHAPTER XXIX. A DAY OF FREEDOM.
CHAPTER XXX. THE MASQUERADE.
CHAPTER XXXI. WHERE IS THE BRIDEGROOM?
CHAPTER XXXII. THE WEDDING AU TROISIÈME.
CHAPTER XXXIII. A CHANGE.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE ARRANGEMENT.
CHAPTER XXXV. THE DIFFICULTY REMOVED.
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE IRON WORKS.
CHAPTER XXXVII. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE EXPERIMENT.
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE RECALL.
CHAPTER XL. HOHENFELS.
CHAPTER XLI. THE SCHEIBEN-SCHIESSEN (TARGET SHOOTING MATCH).
CHAPTER XLII. A DISCOURSE.
CHAPTER XLIII. ANOTHER KIND OF DISCOURSE.
CHAPTER XLIV. THE JOURNEY HOME COMMENCES.
CHAPTER XLV. WHAT OCCURRED AT THE HOTEL D’ANGLETERRE FRANKFORT.
CHAPTER XLVI. HALT!
CHAPTER XLVII. CONCLUSION.

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