Heart's Desire

About this eBook

Author

Hough, Emerson, 1857-1923

Title

Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers A Novel

Credits

E-text prepared by Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

City and town life -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

15159

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15159

Release Date

February 24, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HEART'S DESIRE — The STORY of a CONTENTED TOWN, CERTAIN PECULIAR CITIZENS, and TWO FORTUNATE LOVERS
2. 2.A NOVEL by EMERSON HOUGH — AUTHOR OF THE MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE, THE LAW OF THE LAND, THE GIRL AT THE HALF WAY HOUSE, ETC — NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS — Copyright, 1903, 1904, 1905, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. Copyright, 1903, BY OUT WEST COMPANY. Copyright, 1905, BY THE RIDGWAY-THAYER COMPANY. Copyright, 1905, BY EMERSON HOUGH. Copyright, 1905, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1905. Reprinted November, 1905: January, April, 1907; November, 1908. Norwood Press J. B. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
3. 3.CONTENTS — CHAPTER I — THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER II — THE DINNER AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER III — TRANSGRESSION AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER IV — THE LAW AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER V — EDEN AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER VI — EVE AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER VII — TEMPTATION AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER VIII — THE CORPORATION AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER IX — CIVILIZATION AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER X — ART AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XI — OPERA AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XII — THE PRICE OF HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XIII — BUSINESS AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XIV — THE GROUND FLOOR AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XV — SCIENCE AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XVI — THE PARTITION OF HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XVII — TREASON AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XVIII — THE MEETING AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XIX — COMMERCE AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XX — MEDICINE AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XXI — JUSTICE AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XXII — ADVENTURE AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XXIII — PHILOSOPHY AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XXIV — THE CONSPIRACY AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XXV — ROMANCE AT HEART'S DESIRE — CHAPTER XXVI — THE GIRL AT HEART'S DESIRE — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — Frontispiece: "He looked up—to see her standing at his door!" — "'The umpire decides that you've got to check your guns during the game.'" — "A voice which sang of a face that was the fairest, and of a dark blue eye." — "'Something has got to be did, and did mighty blame quick.'" — HEART'S DESIRE
4. 4.CHAPTER I — THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE — This being in Part the Story of Curly, the Can of Oysters, and the Girl from Kansas
5. 5.CHAPTER II — THE DINNER AT HEART'S DESIRE — This continuing the Relation of Curly, the Can of Oysters, and the Girl from Kansas; and Introducing Others
6. 6.CHAPTER III — TRANSGRESSION AT HEART'S DESIRE — Beginning the Cause Celebre which arose from Curly's killing the Pig of the Man from Kansas
7. 7.CHAPTER IV — THE LAW AT HEART'S DESIRE — Continuing the Story of the Pig from Kansas, and the Deep Damnation of his Taking Off
8. 8.CHAPTER V — EDEN AT HEART'S DESIRE — This being the Story of a Paradise; also showing the Exceeding Loneliness of Adam
9. 9.CHAPTER VI — EVE AT HEART'S DESIRE — How the Said Eve arrived on the Same Stage with Eastern Capital, to the Interest of All, and the Embarrassment of Some.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII — TEMPTATION AT HEART'S DESIRE — Showing how Paradise was lost through the Strange Performance of a Craven Adam
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII — THE CORPORATION AT HEART'S DESIRE — This being the Story of a Parrot, Certain Twins, and a Pair of Candy Legs
12. 12.CHAPTER IX — CIVILIZATION AT HEART'S DESIRE — How the Men of Heart's Desire surrendered to the Softening Seductions of Croquet and other Pastimes
13. 13.CHAPTER X — ART AT HEART'S DESIRE — How Tom Osby, Common Carrier, caused Trouble with a Portable Annie Laurie
14. 14.CHAPTER XI — OPERA AT HEART'S DESIRE — Telling how Two Innocent Travellers by mere Chance collided with a Side-tracked Star
15. 15.CHAPTER XII — THE PRICE OF HEART'S DESIRE — Concerning Goods, their Value, and the Delivery of the Same
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII — BUSINESS AT HEART'S DESIRE — This Describing Porter Barkley's Method with a Man, and Tom Osby's Way with a Maid
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV — THE GROUND FLOOR AT HEART'S DESIRE — Proposing Certain Wonders of Modern Progress, as wrought by Eastern Capital and Able Corporation Counsel
18. 18.CHAPTER XV — SCIENCE AT HEART'S DESIRE — This being the Story of a Cow Puncher, an Osteopath, and a Cross-eyed Horse
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI — THE PARTITION OF HEARTS DESIRE — Concerning Real Estate, Love, Friendship, and Other Good and Valuable Considerations
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII — TREASON AT HEART'S DESIRE — Showing the Dilemma of Dan Anderson, the Doubt of Leading Citizens, and the Artless Performance of a Pastoral Prevaricator
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII — THE MEETING AT HEART'S DESIRE — How Benevolent Assimilation was checked by Unexpected Events
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX — COMMERCE AT HEART'S DESIRE — Showing Wonders of the Thirst of McGinnis, and the Faith of Whiteman the Jew
23. 23.CHAPTER XX — MEDICINE AT HEART'S DESIRE — How the Girl from the States kept the Set of Twins from being broken
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI — JUSTICE AT HEART'S DESIRE — The Story of a Sheriff and Some Bad Men; showing also a Day's Work, and a Man's Medicine
25. 25.CHAPTER XXII — ADVENTURE AT HEART'S DESIRE — The Strange Story of the King of Gee-Whiz, and his Unusual Experience in Foreign Parts
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII — PHILOSOPHY AT HEART'S DESIRE — Showing further the Uncertainty of Human Events, and the Exceeding Resourcefulness of Mr. Thomas Osby
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV — THE CONSPIRACY AT HEART'S DESIRE — This being the Story of a Sheepherder, Two Warm Personal Friends, and their Love-letter to a Beautiful Queen
28. 28.CHAPTER XXV — ROMANCE AT HEART'S DESIRE — The Pleasing Recountal of an Absent Knight, a Gentle Lady, and an Ananias with Spurs
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI — THE GIRL AT HEART'S DESIRE — The Story of a Surprise, a Success, and Something Else Very Much Better

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