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ling tale of repentance which may fall with cheerful rays of encouragement on the soul engaged in the fierce combat with self? To us the simple, touching story of Alvira has brought a charm and a balm. Seeking to impart to others its interest, its amusement, and its moral, we cast it afloat on the sea of literature, to meet, probably, a premature grave in this age of irreligion and presumptuous denial of the necessities of penance. Contents Chapter I. Page Paris One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago . . . . . . 5 Chapter II. The Usurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Chapter III. A Mixed Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chapter IV. A Youth Trained in the Way he should Walk . . . . 18 Chapter V. Our Heroines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Chapter VI. A Secret Revealed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Chapter VII. Tears on Earth, Joy in Heaven . . . . . . . . . . 42 Chapter VIII. Madeleine's Happy Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Chapter IX. One Abyss Invokes Another . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Chapter X. On the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Chapter XI. The Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Chapter XII. Geneva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Chapter XIII. The Secret Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Chapter XIV. The Freemason's Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Chapter XV. Tragedy in the Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Chapter XVI. A Funeral in the Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Chapter XVII. An Unwritten Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Chapter XVIII. In Uniform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Chapter XIX. Remorse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Chapter XX. Naples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Chapter XXI. Engagement with Brigands . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Chapter XXII. The Morning After the Battle . . . . . . . . . . 156 Chapter XXIII. Return--A Triumph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Chapter XXIV. Alvira's Confession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Chapter XXV. Honor Saved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Chapter XXVI. Repentance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Chapter XXVII. The Privileges of Holy Souls . . . . . . . . . . 199 Chapter XXVIII. A Vision of Purgatory--A De
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