OR, POOR WISDOM'S CHANCE.
A NOVEL.
BY MRS. H. LOVETT CAMERON
Author of "Pure Gold," "In a Grass Country," etc., etc.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
1893.
"No. Vain, alas! th' endeavour
From bonds so sweet to sever.
Poor Wisdom's Chance
Against a glance
Is now as weak as ever."
Moore's Melodies.
CONTENTS.
[CHAPTER I.The Vicar's Family]
[CHAPTER II. Kynaston Hall]
[CHAPTER III. Fanning Dead Ashes]
[CHAPTER IV. The Lay Rector]
[CHAPTER V. "Little Pitchers"]
[CHAPTER VI. A Soirée at Walpole Lodge]
[CHAPTER VII. Evening Reveries]
[CHAPTER VIII. The Member for Meadowshire]
[CHAPTER IX. Engaged]
[CHAPTER X. A Meeting on the Stairs]
[CHAPTER XI. An Idle Morning]
[CHAPTER XII. The Meet at Shadonake]
[CHAPTER XIII. Peacock's Feathers]
[CHAPTER XIV. Her Wedding Dress]
[CHAPTER XV. Vera's Message]
[CHAPTER XVI. "Poor Wisdom"]
[CHAPTER XVII. An Unlucky Love-Letter]
[CHAPTER XVIII. Lady Kynaston's Plans]
[CHAPTER XIX. What She Waited For]
[CHAPTER XX. A Morning Walk]
[CHAPTER XXI. Maurice's Intercession]
[CHAPTER XXII. Mr. Pryme's Visitors]
[CHAPTER XXIII. A White Sunshade]
[CHAPTER XXIV. Her Son's Secret]
[CHAPTER XXV. St. Paul's, Knightsbridge]
[CHAPTER XXVI. The Russia-Leather Case]
[CHAPTER XXVII. Dinner at Ranelagh]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. Mrs. Hazeldine's "Long Eliza"]
[CHAPTER XXIX. A Wedding Tour]
[CHAPTER XXX. "If I could Die!"]
[CHAPTER XXXI. An Eventful Drive]
[CHAPTER XXXII. By the Vicarage Gate]
[CHAPTER XXXIII. Denis Wilde's Love]
[CHAPTER XXXIV. A Garden Party]
[CHAPTER XXXV. Shadonake Bath]
[CHAPTER XXXVI. At Peace]