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Reginald Wright Kauffman. The Azure Rose
The Azure Rose
Table of Contents
PREFACE
OUT OF ASHES
CHAPTER I. IN WHICH, IF NOT LOVE, AT LEAST ANGER, LAUGHS AT LOCKSMITHS
CHAPTER II. PROVIDING THE GENTLE READER WITH A CARD OF ADMISSION TO THE NEST OF THE TWO DOVES
CHAPTER III. IN WHICH A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED
CHAPTER IV. A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
CHAPTER V. WHICH TELLS HOW CARTARET RETURNED TO THE RUE DU VAL-DE-GRÂCE, AND WHAT HE FOUND THERE
CHAPTER VI. CARTARET SETS UP HOUSEKEEPING
CHAPTER VII. OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY, OF DAY-DREAMS, AND OF A FAR COUNTRY AND ITS SOVEREIGN LADY
CHAPTER VIII. CHIEFLY CONCERNING STRAWBERRIES
CHAPTER IX. BEING THE TRUE REPORT OF A CHAPERONED DÉJEUNER
CHAPTER X. AN ACCOUNT OF AN EMPTY PURSE AND A FULL HEART, IN THE COURSE OF WHICH THE AUTHOR BARELY ESCAPES TELLING A VERY OLD STORY
CHAPTER XI. TELLS HOW CARTARET’S FORTUNE TURNED TWICE IN A FEW HOURS AND HOW HE FOUND ONE THING AND LOST ANOTHER
CHAPTER XII. NARRATING HOW CARTARET BEGAN HIS QUEST OF THE ROSE
CHAPTER XIII. FURTHER ADVENTURES OF AN AMATEUR BOTANIST
CHAPTER XIV. SOMETHING OR OTHER ABOUT TRADITIONS
CHAPTER XV. IN WHICH CARTARET TAKES PART IN THE REVIVAL OF AN ANCIENT CUSTOM
CHAPTER XVI. AND LAST
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Reginald Wright Kauffman
A Novel
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“And humiliate me still further?” One small foot, cased in an absurdly light patent-leather slipper with a flashing buckle, tapped the floor angrily. “I have been foolish, and your folly has made me more foolish, but I will not have it known to all the world how foolish I have been. Break the lock at once—now—immediately.”
Cartaret divined that this was eminently a time for silence: she was alive, she was real, and she was human. He opened a drawer in the table, dived under the divan, plunged behind a curtain in one corner, and at last found a shaky hammer and a nicked chisel with which he returned to the locked door.
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