Unaddressed Letters

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Unaddressed Letters

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PREFACE

UNADDRESSED LETTERS. I. THE HILL OF SOLITUDE

II. OF WORSHIP

III. WEST AND EAST

IV. A CLEVER MONGOOSE

V. A BLUE DAY

VI. OF LOVE, IN FICTION

VII. THE JINGLING COIN

VIII. A STRANGE SUNSET

IX. OF LETTER-WRITING

X. AT A FUNERAL

XI. OF CHANGE AND DECAY

XII. DAUGHTERS AND DESPOTISM

Preparation of Gentlemen for Matrimony

XIII. HER FIANCÉ

XIV. BY THE SEA

XV. AN ILLUMINATION

XVI. OF DEATH, IN FICTION

XVII. A HAND AT ÉCARTÉ

XVIII. THE GENTLE ART OF VEERING WITH THE WIND

XIX. A REJOINDER

XX. OF IMPORTUNITY

XXI. OF COINCIDENCES

XXII. OF A COUNTRY-HOUSE CUSTOM

XXIII. A MERE LIE

XXIV. TIGERS AND CROCODILES

XXV. A ROSE AND A MOTH

XXVI. A LOVE-PHILTRE

XXVII. MOONSTRUCK

XXVIII. THE “DEVI”

XXIX. THE DEATH-CHAIN

XXX. SCANDAL AND BANGLES

XXXI. THE REPREHENSIBLE HABIT OF MAKING COMPARISONS

XXXII. A CHALLENGE

XXXIII. IN EXILE

XXXIV. OF LOVE—NOT IN FICTION

XXXV. OF OBSESSION

XXXVI. OF PARADISE LOST

XXXVII “TO MARY, IN HEAVEN”

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