Mr. Claghorn's Daughter.
BY HILARY TRENT.
Copyright, 1903, by J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company
All Rights Reserved.
New York:
J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
57 Rose Street.
CONTENTS
[PREFACE.]
[CHAPTER I. A Philosopher and a Marchioness]
[CHAPTER II. Two Pagans Discuss Fish, Paris and the Higher Criticism]
[CHAPTER III. A Cousin in the Coils of the Great Serpent]
[CHAPTER IV. The Diversions of the Claghorns]
[CHAPTER V. How a Pagan Philosopher Entered the Service of the Church]
[CHAPTER VI. Art, Diplomacy, Love and Other Things]
[CHAPTER VII. A Conference of Spinsters Concerning a Runaway Damsel]
[CHAPTER VIII. A Maiden Fair, a Modern Early Father and a Theologian]
[CHAPTER IX. The Advantages of Treading the Borderland of Vice]
[CHAPTER X. A Youth of Promise, a Female Politician, and a Yellow Man]
[CHAPTER XI. The Devil Walks To and Fro in Hampton]
[CHAPTER XII. Her Eyes Grew Limpid and Her Cheeks Flushed Red]
[CHAPTER XIII. Whereat Cynics and Matrons May Smile Incredulous]
[CHAPTER XIV. In the White House—A Damsel or the Devil, Which?]
[CHAPTER XV. Sur le Pont d'Avignon on y Danse, on y Danse]
[CHAPTER XVI. Warblings in the White House and Snares for a Soul]
[CHAPTER XVII. The Secret of Her Heart Was Never Told by Her to Him]
[CHAPTER XVIII. A Lover Writes a Letter]
[CHAPTER XIX. A Kiss that Might Have Lingered on His Lips While Seeking Entrance at the Gate of Heaven]
[CHAPTER XX. A Dishonest Veiling of a Woman's Heart]
[CHAPTER XXI. A Man About to Meet a Maid]
[CHAPTER XXII. Man Walketh in a Vain Shadow]
[CHAPTER XXIII. A Parson Treads the Primrose Path in Paris]
[CHAPTER XXIV. To Him I will be Henceforth True in All Things]
[CHAPTER XXV. Mrs. Joe on Clerical Bumptiousness and Mrs. Fenton's Shoulders]
[CHAPTER XXVI. Introduces Dr. Stanley, Satan and the Prayer Meeting of Matrons]
[CHAPTER XXVII. The Music of the Chorus of the Anguish of the Damned]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. Cursing and Beating Her Breast, She Falls Upon the Grave]
[CHAPTER XXIX. Dr. Stanley Discourses Concerning the Diversions of the Saints]
[CHAPTER XXX. Startling Effect of Dr. Burley's True Meaning]
[CHAPTER XXXI. He Clasped Her Lithe Body with a Clutch of Fury]
[CHAPTER XXXII. A Pæan of Victory Hymned in Hell]
[CHAPTER XXXIII. A Delectable Discussion in Which a Shakesperian Matron is Routed]
[CHAPTER XXXIV. When Manhood is Lost Woman's Time is Come]
[CHAPTER XXXV. A Bottle of Champagne]
[CHAPTER XXXVI. She Cried Aloud She Was a Guilty Creature]
[CHAPTER XXXVII. A Golden Bridge for Passage Across an Abyss of Shame]
[CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Ruins of Her Air Castles Lay Around Her]
[CHAPTER XXXIX. Voidable Vows of Turks (and Others)]
[CHAPTER XL. Her Face Was the Mirror of Her Pleasant Dreams]
[CHAPTER XLI. Her Guilty Conscience Cried, "Behold Your Handiwork"]
[CHAPTER XLII. I Will Never Leave Him, So Help Me God!]
[CHAPTER XLIII. Money, Heaps of Money]
[CHAPTER XLIV. Wedding Bells]