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Title: Manasseh
A Romance of Transylvania

Author: Maurus Jokai

Translator: Percy Favor Bicknell

Release Date: March 24, 2007 [EBook #20892]

Language: English

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Manasseh

A Romance of Transylvania

Retold from the Hungarian of
Dr. Maurus Jokai
Author of
"Black Diamonds," "Pretty Michal," "The
Baron's Sons," etc.

By
Percy Favor Bicknell
Translator of "The Baron's Sons"

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
1901

_Copyright, 1901_
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds &. Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE vii

I. FELLOW-TRAVELLERS 1

II. A LIFE'S HAPPINESS AT STAKE 13

III. AN INTRUDER EXPELLED 19

IV. A BIT OF STRATEGY 24

V. HOLY WEEK IN ROME 34

VI. THE CONSECRATED PALM-LEAF 52

VII. AN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE 60

VIII. AN UNWELCOME VISITOR 65

IX. THE ANONYMOUS LETTER 79

X. THE FOURTEENTH PARAGRAPH 90

XI. THE DECISION 103

XII. A GHOSTLY VISITANT 109

XIII. A SUDDEN FLIGHT 127

XIV. WAL