A Devotee: An Episode in the Life of a Butterfly
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Excerpt:Her delicate features were too irregular, in spite of their obvious high breeding; her figure was too slight; her complexion was too faintly tinted for regular beauty. But she had something of the evanescent charm of a four-petalled dog-rose newly blown—exquisite, ethereal, but as if it might fall in a moment. This aspect of fragility was heightened by what women noticed about her first, namely, her gossamer gown with its silver gleam, and by what men noticed about her first—her gray eyes, pathetic, eager, shy by turns, always lovely, but hinting of a sword too sharp for its slender sh...
Chapters (34)(click to expand)
- A DEVOTEE
- 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.
- POSTSCRIPT.
- GEORGE'S MOTHER.
- WORTH WHILE.
- A MASK AND A MARTYR.
- HADJIRA, A TURKISH LOVE STORY.
- A RELUCTANT EVANGELIST.
- INTERLUDES.
- STEPHEN REMARX. THE STORY OF A VENTURE IN ETHICS.
- DAVE'S SWEETHEART.
- TOMMY ATKINS. A Tale of the Ranks.
- THE BAYONET THAT CAME HOME.
- LOVE-LETTERS OF A WORLDLY WOMAN.
- ON THE THRESHOLD.
- MISTHER O'RYAN.
- ORMISDAL.
- THAT FIDDLER FELLOW. A TALE OF ST. ANDREWS.
- THE BONDWOMAN. A STORY OF THE NORTHMEN IN LAKELAND.
- THE TUTOR'S SECRET. (LE SECRET DU PRÉCEPTEUR.)
- THE MYSTERY OF THE RUE SOLY.
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