The Disagreeable Woman: A Social Mystery
The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Disagreeable Woman, by Horatio Alger
A SOCIAL MYSTERY.
JULIAN STARR.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
— Fletcher.
NEW YORK: Copyright, 1895, by G. W. Dillingham, Publisher , Successor to G. W. Carleton & Co. MDCCCXCV.
In reading Miss Harraden's charming idyl Ships That Pass in the Night, it occurred to me that if there were Disagreeable Men there are also Disagreeable Women. Hence this story.
Jr. Horatio Alger
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CONTENTS.
TO MY READERS.
CHAPTER I. A SOCIAL MYSTERY.
CHAPTER II. THE MYSTERY DEEPENS.
CHAPTER III. PROF. POPPENDORF.
CHAPTER IV. PROF. POPPENDORF'S LECTURE.
CHAPTER V. A CONVERSATION WITH THE DISAGREEABLE WOMAN.
CHAPTER VI. COUNT PENELLI.
CHAPTER VII. MACY'S.
CHAPTER VIII. THE PROFESSOR IN LOVE.
CHAPTER IX. AN EVENING AT THE BOARDING-HOUSE.
CHAPTER X. A RUSTIC ADMIRER.
CHAPTER XI. A POOR PATIENT.
CHAPTER XII. THE DISAGREEABLE WOMAN IN A NEW LIGHT.
CHAPTER XIII. MRS. WYMAN'S CURIOSITY.
CHAPTER XIV. THE QUALITY OF MERCY.
CHAPTER XV. THE PROFESSOR'S COURTSHIP.
CHAPTER XVI. SITS THE WIND IN THAT QUARTER.
CHAPTER XVII. MY RICH PATIENT.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PROFESSOR'S BOOK.
CHAPTER XIX. A SPEECH FROM THE THRONE.
CHAPTER XX. A STARTLING DISCOVERY.
CHAPTER XXI. AFTER THREE MONTHS.
CHAPTER XXII. I APPEAL TO THE DISAGREEABLE WOMAN.
CHAPTER XXIII. AT LAST.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE LIGHT OF HOPE.
