A Chance Acquaintance
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Chapters (32)(click to expand)
- A Chance Acquaintance.
- BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co. 1873. University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.
- CONTENTS
- A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE.
- I.
- UP THE SAGUENAY.
- II.
- MRS. ELLISON'S LITTLE MANEUVRE.
- III.
- ON THE WAY BACK TO QUEBEC.
- IV.
- MR. ARBUTON'S INSPIRATION.
- V.
- MR. ARBUTON MAKES HIMSELF AGREEABLE.
- VI.
- A LETTER OF KITTY'S.
- VII.
- LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM.
- VIII.
- NEXT MORNING.
- IX.
- MR. ARBUTON'S INFATUATION.
- X.
- MR. ARBUTON SPEAKS.
- XI.
- KITTY ANSWERS.
- XII.
- THE PICNIC AT CHATEAU-BIGOT.
- XIII.
- ORDEAL.
- XIV.
- AFTERWARDS.
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