The Title Market
Author of The Flight of a Moth, Woven in the Tapestry, etc.
With Illustrations by J. H. Gardner Soper
New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1909
Copyright, 1909, by THE RIDGWAY COMPANY
Copyright, 1909, by DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
Published, September, 1909
As though you did not know each page, each paragraph, each word; as though for months and months the Sanseveros, Nina, John, and all the rest, had not been your daily companions— Madre Mia, this book is dedicated to you.
Emily Post
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CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I
PRINCE SANSEVERO DIMINISHES THE FORTUNES OF HIS HOUSE
CHAPTER II
THE PRINCESS PLANS TO RECEIVE THE AMERICAN HEIRESS
CHAPTER III
NINA
CHAPTER IV
THE DUKE SCORPA MAKES A DEAL
CHAPTER V
DON GIOVANNI ARRIVES
CHAPTER VI
LOVE, AND A GARDEN
CHAPTER VII
ROME
CHAPTER VIII
OPENING DAY AT THE TITLE MARKET
CHAPTER IX
A DOOR IS OPENED THAT GIOVANNI PREFERS TO KEEP CLOSED
CHAPTER X
MR. RANDOLPH SENDS FOR JOHN DERBY
CHAPTER XI
ROME GOES TO THE OPERA
CHAPTER XII
A BALL AT COURT
CHAPTER XIII
CORONETS FOR SALE
CHAPTER XIV
APPLES OF SODOM
CHAPTER XV
AN OPPOSITION BOOTH IS SET UP IN THE MARKET PLACE
CHAPTER XVI
A MENACE
CHAPTER XVII
NINA DUSTS BEHIND THE COUNTER
CHAPTER XVIII
FAVORITA DRIVES A BARGAIN
CHAPTER XIX
A CHALLENGE, AND AN ANSWER
CHAPTER XX
HIS EMINENCE, THE ARCHBISHOP OF VENCATA
CHAPTER XXI
THE SULPHUR MINES
CHAPTER XXII
BEFORE DAYLIGHT
CHAPTER XXIII
THE SPIDER'S WEB
CHAPTER XXIV
WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE
CHAPTER XXV
"THY PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE—"
THE END
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