Chapters (39)
- THE TEMPTING OF TAVERNAKE
- BOOK ONE
- CHAPTER I. DESPAIR AND INTEREST
- CHAPTER II. A TETE-A-TETE SUPPER
- CHAPTER III. AN UNPLEASANT MEETING
- CHAPTER IV. BREAKFAST WITH BEATRICE
- CHAPTER V. INTRODUCING Mrs. WENHAM GARDNER
- CHAPTER VI. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
- CHAPTER VII. Mr. PRITCHARD OF NEW YORK
- CHAPTER VIII. WOMAN'S WILES
- CHAPTER IX. THE PLOT THICKENS
- CHAPTER X. THE JOY OF BATTLE
- CHAPTER XI. A BEWILDERING OFFER
- CHAPTER XII. TAVERNAKE BLUNDERS
- CHAPTER XIII. AN EVENING CALL
- CHAPTER XIV. A WARNING FROM Mr. PRITCHARD
- CHAPTER, XV. GENERAL DISCONTENT
- CHAPTER XVI. AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE
- CHAPTER XVII. THE BALCONY AT IMANO'S
- CHAPTER XVIII. A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE
- CHAPTER XIX. TAVERNAKE INTERVENES
- CHAPTER XX. A PLEASANT REUNION
- CHAPTER XXI. SOME EXCELLENT ADVICE
- CHAPTER XXII. DINNER WITH ELIZABETH
- CHAPTER XXIII. ON AN ERRAND OF CHIVALRY
- CHAPTER XXIV. CLOSE TO TRAGEDY
- CHAPTER XXV. THE MADMAN TALKS
- CHAPTER XXVI. A CRISIS
- CHAPTER XXVII. TAVERNAKE CHOOSES
- BOOK TWO
- CHAPTER I. NEW HORIZONS
- CHAPTER II. THE SIMPLE LIFE
- CHAPTER III. OLD FRIENDS MEET
- CHAPTER IV. PRITCHARD'S GOOD NEWS
- CHAPTER V. BEATRICE REFUSES
- CHAPTER VI. UNDERSTANDING COMES TOO LATE
- CHAPTER VII. IN A VIRGIN COUNTRY
- CHAPTER VIII. BACK TO CIVILIZATION
- CHAPTER IX. FOR ALWAYS
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