LOVE AND LIFE
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An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
By Charlotte M. Yonge
Transcriber’s note: There are numerous examples throughout this text of words appearing in alternate spellings: madame/madam, practise/ practice, Ladyship/ladyship, &c. We can only wonder what the publisher had in mind. I have left them unchanged.—D.L.
CONTENTS
PREFACE LOVE AND LIFE. CHAPTER I. A SYLLABUB PARTY CHAPTER II. THE HOUSE OF DELAVIE CHAPTER III. AMONG THE COWSLIPS CHAPTER IV. MY LADY’S MISSIVE CHAPTER V. THE SUMMONS CHAPTER VI. DISAPPOINTED LOVE CHAPTER VII. ALL ALONE CHAPTER VIII. THE ENCHANTED CASTLE CHAPTER IX. THE TRIAD CHAPTER X. THE DARK CHAMBER CHAPTER XI. A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE CHAPTER XII. THE SHAFTS OF PHOEBE CHAPTER XIII. THE FLUTTER OF HIS WINGS CHAPTER XIV. THE CANON OF WINDSOR CHAPTER XV. THE QUEEN OF BEAUTY CHAPTER XVI. AUGURIES CHAPTER XVII. THE VICTIM DEMANDED CHAPTER XVIII. THE PROPOSAL CHAPTER XIX. WOOING IN THE DARK CHAPTER XX. THE MUFFLED BRIDEGROOM CHAPTER XXI. THE SISTERS’ MEETING CHAPTER XXII. A FATAL SPARK CHAPTER XXIII. WRATH AND DESOLATION CHAPTER XXIV. THE WANDERER CHAPTER XXV. VANISHED CHAPTER XXVI. THE TRACES CHAPTER XXVII. CYTHEREA’S BOWER CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ROUT CHAPTER XXIX. A BLACK BLONDEL CHAPTER XXX. THE FIRST TASK CHAPTER XXXI. THE SECOND TASK CHAPTER XXXII. LIONS CHAPTER XXXIII. THE COSMETIC CHAPTER XXXIV. DOWN THE RIVER CHAPTER XXXV. THE RETURN CHAPTER XXXVI. WAKING CHAPTER XXXVII. MAKING THE BEST OF IT