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Edward Payson Roe. His Sombre Rivals
His Sombre Rivals
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I AN EMBODIMENT OF MAY. CHAPTER II MERE FANCIES. CHAPTER III THE VERDICT OF A SAGE. CHAPTER IV WARNING OR INCENTIVE. CHAPTER V IMPRESSIONS. CHAPTER VI PHILOSOPHY AT FAULT. CHAPTER VII WARREN HILLAND. CHAPTER VIII SUPREME MOMENTS. CHAPTER IX THE REVELATION. CHAPTER X THE KINSHIP OF SUFFERING. CHAPTER XI THE ORDEAL. CHAPTER XII FLIGHT TO NATURE. CHAPTER XIII THE FRIENDS. CHAPTER XIV NOBLE DECEPTION. CHAPTER XV "I WISH HE HAD KNOWN" CHAPTER XVI THE CLOUD IN THE SOUTH. CHAPTER XVII PREPARATION. CHAPTER XVIII THE CALL TO ARMS. CHAPTER XIX THE BLOOD-RED SKY. CHAPTER XX TWO BATTLES. CHAPTER XXI THE LOGIC OF EVENTS. CHAPTER XXII SELF-SENTENCED. CHAPTER XXIII AN EARLY DREAM FULFILLED. CHAPTER XXIV UNCHRONICLED CONFLICTS. CHAPTER XXV A PRESENTIMENT. CHAPTER XXVI AN IMPROVISED PICTURE GALLERY. CHAPTER XXVII A DREAM. CHAPTER XXVIII ITS FULFILMENT. CHAPTER XXIX A SOUTHERN GIRL. CHAPTER XXX GUERILLAS. CHAPTER XXXI JUST IN TIME. CHAPTER XXXII A WOUNDED SPIRIT. CHAPTER XXXIII THE WHITE-HAIRED NURSE. CHAPTER XXXIV RITA'S BROTHER. CHAPTER XXXV HIS SOMBRE RIVALS. CHAPTER XXXVI ALL MATERIALISTS. CHAPTER XXXVII THE EFFORT TO LIVE. CHAPTER XXXVIII GRAHAM'S LAST SACRIFICE. CHAPTER XXXIX MARRIED UNCONSCIOUSLY. CHAPTER XL RITA ANDERSON. CHAPTER XLI A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM. CHAPTER I
AN EMBODIMENT OF MAY
CHAPTER II
MERE FANCIES
CHAPTER III
THE VERDICT OF A SAGE
CHAPTER IV
WARNING OR INCENTIVE?
CHAPTER V
IMPRESSIONS
CHAPTER VI
PHILOSOPHY AT FAULT
CHAPTER VII
WARREN HILLAND
CHAPTER VIII
SUPREME MOMENTS
CHAPTER IX
THE REVELATION
CHAPTER X
THE KINSHIP OF SUFFERING
CHAPTER XI
THE ORDEAL
CHAPTER XII
FLIGHT TO NATURE
CHAPTER XIII
THE FRIENDS
CHAPTER XIV
NOBLE DECEPTION
CHAPTER XV
"I WISH HE HAD KNOWN"
CHAPTER XVI
THE CLOUD IN THE SOUTH
CHAPTER XVII
PREPARATION
CHAPTER XVIII
THE CALL TO ARMS
CHAPTER XIX
THE BLOOD-RED SKY
CHAPTER XX
TWO BATTLES
CHAPTER XXI. THE LOGIC OF EVENTS
CHAPTER XXII
SELF-SENTENCED
CHAPTER XXIII
AN EARLY DREAM FULFILLED
CHAPTER XXIV
UNCHRONICLED CONFLICTS
CHAPTER XXV
A PRESENTIMENT
CHAPTER XXVI
AN IMPROVISED PICTURE GALLERY
CHAPTER XXVII
A DREAM
CHAPTER XXVIII
ITS FULFILMENT
CHAPTER XXIX
A SOUTHERN GIRL
CHAPTER XXX
GUERILLAS
CHAPTER XXXI
JUST IN TIME
CHAPTER XXXII
A WOUNDED SPIRIT
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE WHITE-HAIRED NURSE
CHAPTER XXXIV
RITA'S BROTHER
CHAPTER XXXV
HIS SOMBRE RIVALS
CHAPTER XXXVI
ALL MATERIALISTS
CHAPTER XXXVII
THE EFFORT TO LIVE
CHAPTER XXXVIII
GRAHAM'S LAST SACRIFICE
CHAPTER XXXIX
MARRIED UNCONSCIOUSLY
CHAPTER XL
RITA ANDERSON
CHAPTER XLI
A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM
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Edward Payson Roe
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"Well," he soliloquized, laughing, "I have not been aware that hitherto I have been only a mollusk, a polyp of a man. I am inclined to think that Emerson's 'Pegasus' took the bit—got the better of him on one occasion; but if there is any truth in what he writes it might not be a bad idea to try a little of the kind of evolution that he suggests and see what comes of it. I am already confident that I could see infinitely more than I do if I could look at the world through Miss St. John's eyes as well as my own, but I run no slight risk in obtaining that vision. Her eyes are stars that must have drawn worshippers, not only from the east, but from every point of the compass. I should be in a sorry plight if I should become 'all memory,' and from my fair divinity receive as sole response, 'Please forget.' If the philosopher could guarantee that she also would be 'all eye and all memory,' one might indeed covet Miss St. John as the teacher of the higher mysteries. Life is not very exhilarating at best, but for a man to set his heart on such a woman as this girl promises to be, and then be denied—why, he had better remain a polyp. Come, come, Alford Graham, you have had your hour of sentiment—out of deference to Mr. Emerson I won't call it weakness—and it's time you remembered that you are a comparatively poor man, that Miss St. John has already been the choice of a score at least, and probably has made her own choice. I shall therefore permit no delusions and the growth of no false hopes."
Having reached this prudent conclusion, Graham yawned, smiled at the unwonted mood in which he had indulged, and with the philosophic purpose of finding an opiate in the pages that had contained one paragraph rather too exciting, he took up the copy of Emerson that he had borrowed. The book fell open, indicating that some one had often turned to the pages before him. One passage was strongly marked on either side and underscored. With a laugh he saw that it was the one he had been dwelling upon—"No man ever forgot," etc.
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