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Title: Bressant

Author: Julian Hawthorne

Release Date: April 9, 2005 [eBook #15596]

Language: English

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BRESSANT

A Novel

by

JULIAN HAWTHORNE

1873

CONTENTS.

I.--HOW PROFESSOR VALEYON LOSES HIS HANDKERCHIEF

II.--SIGNS OF A THUNDER-SHOWER

III.--SOPHIE AND CORNELIA ENTER INTO A COVENANT

IV.--A BUSINESS TRANSACTION

V.--BRESSANT PICKS A TEA-ROSE

VI.--CORNELIA BEGINS TO UNDO A KNOT

VII.--PROFESSOR VALEYON MAKES A CALL

VIII.--GREAT EXPECTATIONS

IX.--THE DAGUERREOTYPE

X.--ONLY FOR TO-NIGHT!

XI.--EVERY LITTLE COUNTS

XII.--DOLLY ACTS AN IMPORTANT PART

XIII.--A KEEPSAKE

XIV.--NURSING

XV.--AN UNTIMELY REMINISCENCE

XVI.--PARTING AN ANCHOR

XVII.--SOPHIE'S CONFESSION

XVIII.--A FLANK MOVEMENT

XIX.--AN INTERMISSION

XX.--BRESSANT CONFIDES A SECRET TO THE FOUNTAIN

XXI.--PUTTING ON THE ARMOR

XXII.--LOCKED UP

XXIII.--ARMED NEUTRALITY

XXIV.--A BIT OF INSPIRATION

XXV.--ANOTHER INTERMISSION

XXVI.--BRESSANT TAKES A VACATION

XXVII.--FACT AND FANCY

XXVIII.--A DISAPPOINTMENT

XXIX.--FOUND

XXX.--LOST

XXXI.--MOTHER AND SON

XXXII.--WHERE TWO ROADS MEET

XXXIII.--TILL THE ELEVENTH HOUR

XXXIV.--THE HOUR AND THE MAN

CHAPTER I.

HOW PROFESSOR VALEYON LOSES HIS HANDKERCHIEF.

One warm afternoon in June--the warmest of the season thus
far--Professor Valeyon sat, smoking a black clay pipe, upon the broad
balcony, which extended all ac