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Elsie Venner

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Author
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Credits
Produced by David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Birthmarks -- Fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
2696
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2696
Release Date
September 28, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.ELSIE VENNER
  2. 2.By Oliver Wendell Holmes
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.A SECOND PREFACE.
  5. 5.PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION. — ELSIE VENNER.
  6. 6.CHAPTER I. THE BRAHMIN CASTE OF NEW ENGLAND.
  7. 7.CHAPTER II. THE STUDENT AND HIS CERTIFICATE.
  8. 8.CHAPTER III. MR. BERNARD TRIES HIS HAND.
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV. THE MOTH FLIES INTO THE CANDLE.
  10. 10.CHAPTER V. AN OLD-FASHIONED DESCRIPTIVE CHAPTER.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI. THE SUNBEAM AND THE SHADOW.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII. THE EVENT OF THE SEASON.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. THE MORNING AFTER.
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX. THE DOCTOR ORDERS THE BEST SULKY. (With a Digression on “Hired Help.”) — “ABEL! Slip Cassia into the new sulky, and fetch her round.”
  15. 15.CHAPTER X. THE DOCTOR CALLS ON ELSIE VENNER.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI. COUSIN RICHARD'S VISIT.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII. THE APOLLINEAN INSTITUTE. (With Extracts from the “Reporto f the committee.”)
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. CURIOSITY.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. FAMILY SECRETS.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV. PHYSIOLOGICAL.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. EPISTOLARY. — Mr. Langdon to the Professor.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. OLD SOPHY CALLS ON THE REVEREND DOCTOR.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. THE REVEREND DOCTOR CALLS ON BROTHER FAIRWEATHER.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. THE SPIDER ON HIS THREAD.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XX. FROM WITHOUT AND FROM WITHIN.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. THE WIDOW ROWENS GIVES A TEA-PARTY.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. WHY DOCTORS DIFFER.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. THE WILD HUNTSMAN.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. ON HIS TRACKS.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. THE PERILOUS HOUR.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. THE NEWS REACHES THE DUDLEY MANSION.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. A SOUL IN DISTRESS.
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SECRET IS WHISPERED.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. THE WHITE ASH.
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXX. THE GOLDEN CORD IS LOOSED.
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI. MR. SILAS PECKHAM RENDERS HIS ACCOUNT.
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII. CONCLUSION.

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