GEORGE W. CABLE

Author of "Old Creole Days," "The Grandissimes," etc.

NEW YORK
Copyright
By CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
743 AND 745 Broadway
1881
PRESS OF J. J. LITTLE & CO.,
NOS. 10 TO 20 ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK.


CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I.]
An Old House Page 1
[CHAPTER II.]
Madame Delphine 7
[CHAPTER III.]
Capitaine Lemaitre 12
[CHAPTER IV.]
Three Friends 18
[CHAPTER V.]
The Cap Fits 28
[CHAPTER VI.]
A Cry of Distress 40
[CHAPTER VII.]
Miché Vignevielle 50
[CHAPTER VIII.]
She 59
[CHAPTER IX.]
Olive 68
[CHAPTER X.]
Birds 74
[CHAPTER XI.]
Face To Face 82
[CHAPTER XII.]
The Mother Bird 90
[CHAPTER XIII.]
Tribulation 99
[CHAPTER XIV.]
By an Oath 106
[CHAPTER XV.]
Kyrie Eleison 120


MADAME DELPHINE.


[CHAPTER I.]