Fashion and Famine
Transcriber's Note: Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.
There is no sorrow for the earnest soul That looketh up to God in perfect faith.
TWENTY-FIFTH THOUSAND.
New York: BUNCE & BROTHER, PUBLISHERS, 134 NASSAU STREET. — MDCCCLIV.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York.
Republished in London by Richard Bentley, through special arrangement with the Author
W. H. TINSON, STEREOTYPER , 24 Beckman Street. —— Taws, Russell & Co., Printers, 26 Beekman and 18 Spruce St., N. Y.
MRS. LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY,
OF HARTFORD, CONN.,
Ann S. Stephens
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Preface.
Contents.
FASHION AND FAMINE.
CHAPTER I. THE STRAWBERRY GIRL.
CHAPTER II. THE OLD COUPLE.
CHAPTER III. THE LONE MANSION.
CHAPTER IV. THE ASTOR HOUSE AND THE ATTIC ROOM.
CHAPTER V. MISTRESS AND SERVANT.
CHAPTER VI. THE TEMPTER AND THE TEMPTED.
CHAPTER VII. THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
CHAPTER VIII. THE CITY COTTAGE.
CHAPTER IX. MRS. GRAY'S THANKSGIVING DINNER.
CHAPTER X. THE BROTHER'S RETURN.
CHAPTER XI. THE MOTHER'S LETTER.
CHAPTER XII. STRIFE FOR AN EARL.
CHAPTER XIII. THE MORNING LESSON.
CHAPTER XIV. A WEDDING FORESHADOWED.
CHAPTER XV. THE MOTHER'S APPEAL.
CHAPTER XVI. THE BRIDAL WREATH.
CHAPTER XVII. AN HOUR BEFORE THE BALL.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE FORGED CHECK.
CHAPTER XIX. NIGHT AND MORNING.
CHAPTER XX. THE LAST INTERVIEW.
CHAPTER XXI. THE CITY PRISON.
CHAPTER XXII. THE IMPRISONED WITNESS.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE THREE OLD WOMEN.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE FIRST NIGHT IN PRISON.
CHAPTER XXV. LITTLE GEORGIE.
CHAPTER XXVI. MRS. GRAY AND THE PRISON WOMAN.
CHAPTER XXVII. STRUGGLES AND REVELS.
CHAPTER XXVIII. ADA LEICESTER AND JACOB STRONG.
CHAPTER XXIX. ADA'S SOLITARY BREAKFAST.
CHAPTER XXX. THE PRISON WOMAN IN ADA'S DRESSING-ROOM.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE TOMBS LAWYER.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE LAWYER'S VISIT TO HIS CLIENT.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE TRIAL FOR MURDER.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE TWO WITNESSES.
CHAPTER XXXV. THE VERDICT.
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE PARENTS, THE CHILD AND GRANDCHILD.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE DAWNING OF LIGHT.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. GATHERING FOR THE EXECUTION.
CHAPTER XXXIX. HEARTS AND CONSCIENCES AT REST.