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Booth Tarkington. The Two Vanrevels
The Two Vanrevels
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A Cat Can Do More than Look at a King
CHAPTER II. Surviving Evils of the Reign of Terror
CHAPTER III. The Rogue's Gallery of a Father Should be Exhibited to a Daughter with Particular Care
CHAPTER IV. “But Spare Your Country's Flag”
CHAPTER V. Nero not the Last Violinist of his Kind
CHAPTER VI. The Ever Unpractical Feminine
CHAPTER VII. The Comedian
CHAPTER VIII. A Tale of a Political Difference
CHAPTER IX. The Rule of the Regent
CHAPTER X. Echoes of a Serenade
CHAPTER XI. A Voice in a Garden
CHAPTER XII. The Room in the Cupola
CHAPTER XIII. The Tocsin
CHAPTER XIV. The Firm of Gray and Vanrevel
CHAPTER XV. When June Came
CHAPTER XVI. “Those Endearing Young Charms”
CHAPTER XVII. The Price of Silence
CHAPTER XVIII. The Uniform
CHAPTER XIX. The Flag Goes Marching By
CHAPTER XX. “Goodby”
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Booth Tarkington
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Does there exist an incredulous, or jealous, denizen of another portion of our country who, knowing that the room in the wooden cupola over Mr. Carewe's library was commonly alluded to by Rouen as the “Tower Chamber,” will prove himself so sectionally prejudiced as to deny that the town was a veritable hotbed of literary interest, or that Sir 'Walter Scott was ill-appreciated there? Some of the men looked sly, and others grinned, at mention of this apartment; but the romantic were not lacking who spoke of it in whispers: how the lights sometimes shone there all night long, and the gentlemen drove away, whitefaced, in the dawn. The cupola, rising above the library, overlooked the garden; and the house, save for that, was of a single story, with a low veranda running the length of its front. The windows of the library and of a row of bedrooms—one of which was Miss Betty's—lined the veranda, “steamboat fashion;” the inner doors of these rooms all opening upon a long hail which bisected the house, the stairway leading to the room in the cupola rose the library itself, while the bisecting hail afforded be only access to the library; hence, the gossips, 'eli acquainted with the geography of the place, conferred seriously together upon what effect Miss Betty's homecoming would have in this connection:
Dr. anyone going to the stairway must needs pass her door; and, what was more to the point, a party C gentlemen descending late from the mysterious garret might be not so quiet as they intended, and the young lady sufficiently disturbed to inquire of her father what entertainment he provided that should keep his guests until four in the morning.
