The Old Countess (Sedgwick)
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Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston and New York
The Old Countess
The Old Countess
By
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
(Mrs. Basil de Sélincourt)
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
Copyright, 1926 and 1927, by International Magazine Company, Inc.
Copyright, 1927, by Anne Douglas de Sélincourt
All rights reserved Second impression, March, 1927
Copyright, 1927, by Anne Douglas de Sélincourt
All rights reserved Second impression, March, 1927
The Riverside Press
Cambridge · Massachusetts
Printed in the U.S.A.
Contents
I. | The Old Countess | 3 |
II. | Jill | 10 |
III. | The Cemetery | 18 |
IV. | The Derelicts | 27 |
V. | Jill and Graham | 39 |
VI. | The Curé's Cat | 47 |
VII. | Childe Roland | 57 |
VIII. | Marthe Ludérac | 72 |
IX. | Family Histories | 89 |
X. | On the Island | 99 |
XI. | On the Balcony | 116 |
XII. | The Evening Party | 124 |
XIII. | The Harp | 139 |
XIV. | Eurydice | 154 |
XV. | Marthe Ludérac's Story | 171 |
XVI. | The Friends | 188 |
XVII. | The Sibyl | 197 |
XVIII. | The Torrent | 207 |
XIX. | Still Tempest | 221 |
XX. | The Courtesan | 230 |
XXI. | The Lost Eurydice | 242 |
XXII. | Cécile Léonore | 253 |
XXIII. | In Marthe Ludérac's Room | 262 |
XXIV. | The Permissionnaire | 266 |
XXV. | The Last Reading | 279 |
XXVI. | In the Garden | 287 |
XXVII. | The Storm | 298 |
XXVIII. | By the Cemetery Wall | 316 |
XXIX. | The Dream | 325 |
XXX. | The Parting | 329 |
XXXI. | The Empty House | 339 |
XXXII. | The Flood | 352 |
Epilogue | 364 |
The Old Countess
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