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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
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