A Siren
by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
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About this eBook
- Author
- Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
- Credits
- Produced by Tapio Riikonen, tapri@kolumbus.fi HTML version by Chuck Greif
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Detective and mystery stories
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 5179
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5179
- Release Date
- February 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A SIREN — CONTENTS
- 2.BOOK I Ash Wednesday Morning — CHAPTER I The Last Night of Carnival — CHAPTER II — CHAPTER III St. Apollinare in Classe — CHAPTER IV Father Fabiano — CHAPTER V "The Hours passed, and still she came not" — CHAPTER VI Gigia's Opinion — CHAPTER VII An Attorney-at-law in the Papal States — CHAPTER VIII Lost in the Forest — CHAPTER IX "Passa la Bella Donna e par che dorma"—Tasso
- 3.BOOK II Four Months before that Ash Wednesday Morning — CHAPTER I How the good News came to Ravenna — CHAPTER II The Marchese Lamberto di Castelmare — CHAPTER III The Impresario's Report — CHAPTER IV Paolina Foscarelli — CHAPTER V Rivalry — CHAPTER VI The Beginning of Trouble — CHAPTER VII The Teaching of a Great Love — CHAPTER VIII A Change in the Situation — CHAPTER IX Uncle and Nephew — CHAPTER X The Contessa Violante — CHAPTER XI The Cardinal's Reception, and the Marchese's Ball — CHAPTER XII The Arrival of the "Diva"
- 4.BOOK III "Sirenum Pocula" — CHAPTER I "Diva Potens" — CHAPTER II An Adopted Father and an Adopted Daughter — CHAPTER III "Armed at All Points" — CHAPTER IV Throwing the Line — CHAPTER V After-thoughts — CHAPTER VI At the Circolo — CHAPTER VII Extremes Meet — CHAPTER VIII The Diva shows her Cards — CHAPTER IX One Struggle more
- 5.BOOK IV The last Days of the Carnival — CHAPTER I In the Cardinal's Chapel — CHAPTER II The Corso — CHAPTER III "La Sonnambula" — CHAPTER IV The Marchese Lamberto's Correspondence — CHAPTER V Bianca at Home — CHAPTER VI Paolina at Home — CHAPTER VII Two Interviews — CHAPTER VIII A Carnival Reception — CHAPTER IX Paolina's Return to the City
- 6.BOOK V Who Did the Deed? — CHAPTER I At the City Gate — CHAPTER II Suspicion — CHAPTER III Guilty or not Guilty? — CHAPTER IV The Marchese hears the Ill News — CHAPTER V Doubts and Possibilities — CHAPTER VI At the Circolo again — CHAPTER VII A Prison Visit — CHAPTER VIII Signor Giovacchino Fortini at Home — CHAPTER IX The Post-Mortem Examination — CHAPTER X Public Opinion — CHAPTER XI In Father Fabiano's Cell — CHAPTER XII The Case against Paolina
- 7.BOOK VI Poena Pede Claudo — CHAPTER I Signor Fortini receives the Signora Steno in his Studio — CHAPTER II Was it Paolina after all? — CHAPTER III Could it have been the Aged Friar? — CHAPTER IV What Ravenna thought of it — CHAPTER V "Miserrimus" — CHAPTER VI The Trial — CHAPTER VII The Friar's Testimony — CHAPTER VIII The Truth! — CHAPTER IX Conclusion
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