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George Washington Cable. The Grandissimes
The Grandissimes
Table of Contents
PHOTOGRAVURES
CHAPTER I
MASKED BATTERIES
CHAPTER II
THE FATE OF THE IMMIGRANT
CHAPTER III
"AND WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?"
CHAPTER IV
FAMILY TREES
CHAPTER V
A MAIDEN WHO WILL NOT MARRY
CHAPTER VI
LOST OPPORTUNITIES
CHAPTER VII
WAS IT HONORÉ GRANDISSIME?
CHAPTER VIII
SIGNED--HONORÉ GRANDISSIME
CHAPTER IX
ILLUSTRATING THE TRACTIVE POWER OF BASIL
CHAPTER X
"OO DAD IS, 'SIEUR FROWENFEL'?"
CHAPTER XI
SUDDEN FLASHES OF LIGHT
CHAPTER XII
THE PHILOSOPHE
CHAPTER XIII
A CALL FROM THE RENT-SPECTRE
CHAPTER XIV
BEFORE SUNSET
CHAPTER XV
ROLLED IN THE DUST
CHAPTER XVI
STARLIGHT IN THE RUE CHARTRES
CHAPTER XVII
THAT NIGHT
CHAPTER XVIII
NEW LIGHT UPON DARK PLACES
CHAPTER XIX
ART AND COMMERCE
CHAPTER XX
A VERY NATURAL MISTAKE
CHAPTER XXI
DOCTOR KEENE RECOVERS HIS BULLET
CHAPTER XXII
WARS WITHIN THE BREAST
CHAPTER XXIII
FROWENFELD KEEPS HIS APPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XXIV
FROWENFELD MAKES AN ARGUMENT
CHAPTER XXV
AURORA AS A HISTORIAN
CHAPTER XXVI
A RIDE AND A RESCUE
CHAPTER XXVII
THE FÊTE DE GRANDPÈRE
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE STORY OF BRAS-COUPÉ
CHAPTER XXIX
THE STORY OF BRAS-COUPÉ, CONTINUED
CHAPTER XXX
PARALYSIS
CHAPTER XXXI
ANOTHER WOUND IN A NEW PLACE
CHAPTER XXXII
INTERRUPTED PRELIMINARIES
CHAPTER XXXIII
UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL
CHAPTER XXXIV
CLOTILDE AS A SURGEON
CHAPTER XXXV
"FO' WAD YOU CRYNE?"
CHAPTER XXXVI
AURORA'S LAST PICAYUNE
CHAPTER XXXVII
HONORÉ MAKES SOME CONFESSIONS
CHAPTER XXXVIII
TESTS OF FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER XXXIX
LOUISIANA STATES HER WANTS
CHAPTER XL
FROWENFELD FINDS SYLVESTRE
CHAPTER XLI
TO COME TO THE POINT
CHAPTER XLII
AN INHERITANCE OF WRONG
CHAPTER XLIII
THE EAGLE VISITS THE DOVES IN THEIR NEST
CHAPTER XLIV
BAD FOR CHARLIE KEENE
CHAPTER XLV
MORE REPARATION
CHAPTER XLVI
THE PIQUE-EN-TERRE LOSES ONE OF HER CREW
CHAPTER XLVII
THE NEWS
CHAPTER XLVIII
AN INDIGNANT FAMILY AND A SMASHED SHOP
CHAPTER XLIX
OVER THE NEW STORE
CHAPTER L
A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE
CHAPTER LI
BUSINESS CHANGES
CHAPTER LII
LOVE LIES A-BLEEDING
CHAPTER LIII
FROWENFELD AT THE GRANDISSIME MANSION
CHAPTER LIV
"CAULDRON BUBBLE"
CHAPTER LV
CAUGHT
CHAPTER LVI
BLOOD FOR A BLOW
CHAPTER LVII
VOUDOU CURED
CHAPTER LVIII
DYING WORDS
CHAPTER LIX
WHERE SOME CREOLE MONEY GOES
CHAPTER LX
"ALL RIGHT"
CHAPTER LXI
"NO!"
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George Washington Cable
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Some days later M. D'Iberville's canoe fleet, returning down the river, found and took from the shore the two men, whom they had given up for dead, and with them, by her own request, the abdicating queen, who left behind her a crowd of weeping and howling squaws and warriors. Three canoes that put off in their wake, at a word from her, turned back; but one old man leaped into the water, swam after them a little way, and then unexpectedly sank. It was that cautious wader but inexperienced swimmer, the Listening Crane.
When the expedition reached Biloxi, there were two suitors for the hand of Agricola's great ancestress. Neither of them was Zephyr Grandissime. (Ah! the strong heads of those Grandissimes.)
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