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Title: Fairy Fingers
A Novel

Author: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

Release Date: February 21, 2008 [EBook #24664]

Language: English

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FAIRY FINGERS.

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_IN PRESS:_

BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS VOLUME,

THE MUTE SINGER;
A Novel.

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FAIRY FINGERS.

A Novel.

BY

ANNA CORA RITCHIE,

AUTHOR OF "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ACTRESS," "MIMIC LIFE,"
"TWIN ROSES," "ARMAND," "FASHION," ETC.

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"Labor is Worship."

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NEW YORK:

CARLETON, PUBLISHER, 413 BROADWAY.

MDCCCLXV.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
GEO. W. CARLETON.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court
for the Southern District of New York.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Noblesse, 7

II. The Cousins, 17

III. Madeleine, 24

IV. Proposals, 38

V. Heart-beats, 43

VI. Unmasking, 55

VII. A Crisis, 68

VIII. Flight, 79

IX. The Empty Place, 94

X. The Humble Companion, 109

XI. Pursuit, 116

XII. The Sister of Charity, 121

XIII. Weary Days, 131

XIV. Diamonds and Emeralds, 139

XV. The Embroidered Handkerchief, 148

XVI. A Voice from the Lost On