CONTENTS
[ THE DALTONS; or, THREE ROADS IN LIFE ]
[ CHAPTER I. ] A MORNING OF MISADVENTURES
[ CHAPTER II. ] A SAD HOUSEHOLD
[ CHAPTER III. ] A LAST SCENE
[ CHAPTER IV. ] A PACKAGE OF LETTERS
[ CHAPTER V. ] A HAPPY DAY FOR PETER DALTON
[ CHAPTER VI. ] MADAME DE HEIDENDORF
[ CHAPTER VII. ] AT VIENNA
[ CHAPTER VIII. ] PRIESTLY COUNSELS
[ CHAPTER IX. ] SECRETS OF HEAD AND HEART
[ CHAPTER X. ] D'ESMONDE'S LETTER
[ CHAPTER XI. ] THE CADET VON DALTON
[ CHAPTER XII. ] VIENNA
[ CHAPTER XIII. ] THE MARCH
[ CHAPTER XIV. ] THE SKIRMISH
[ CHAPTER XV. ] A VILLA AND ITS COMPANY
[ CHAPTER XVI. ] PETER DALTON ON POLITICS, LAW, AND SOCIALITIES
[ CHAPTER XVII. ] NELLY'S TRIALS
[ CHAPTER XVIII. ] AN ACT OF SETTLEMENT
[ CHAPTER XIX. ] THE CURSAAL
[ CHAPTER XX. ] THE LAST STAKE OF ALL
[ CHAPTER XXI. ] NELLY'S SORROWS
[ CHAPTER XXII. ] A LAST ADIEU
[ CHAPTER XXIII. ] THE TYROL JOURNEY
[ CHAPTER XXIV. ] FLORENCE
[ CHAPTER XXV. ] PRIESTCRAFT
[ CHAPTER XXVI. ] THE “MOSKOVA.”
[ CHAPTER XXVII. ] VALEGGIO
[ CHAPTER XXVIII. ] PLOTS, POLITICS, AND PRIESTCRAFT
[ CHAPTER XXIX. ] A SECRET AND A SNARE
[ CHAPTER XXX. ] A SAD EXIT
[ CHAPTER XXXI. ] THE SUMMONS
[ CHAPTER XXXII. ] INISTIOGE
[ CHAPTER XXXIII. ] THE MANOR-HOUSE OF CORRIG-O'NEAL
[ CHAPTER XXXIV. ] "THE RORE.”
[ CHAPTER XXXV. ] A TALK OVER BYGONES
[ CHAPTER XXXVI. ] THE JAIL
[ CHAPTER XXXVII. ] A FENCING-MATCH
[ CHAPTER XXXVIII. ] A STEP IN VAIN
[ CHAPTER XXXIX. ] THE COURT-HOUSE OF KILKENNY
[ CHAPTER XL. ] THE RETRIBUTION
[ CHAPTER XLI. ] THE END
THE DALTONS;
or, THREE ROADS IN LIFE
CHAPTER I. A MORNING OF MISADVENTURES.
“Well, my Lord, are we to pass the day here,” said Count Trouville, the second of the opposite party, as Norwood returned from a fruitless search of George Onslow, “or are we to understand that this is the English mode of settling such matters?”
“I am perfectly ready, Monsieur le Comte, to prove the contrary, so far as my own poor abilities extend,” said Norwood, calmly.