tion>Oliver Wendell Holmes
Elsie Venner
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664611802
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE BRAHMIN CASTE OF NEW ENGLAND.
CHAPTER II. THE STUDENT AND HIS CERTIFICATE.
CHAPTER III. MR. BERNARD TRIES HIS HAND.
CHAPTER IV. THE MOTH FLIES INTO THE CANDLE.
CHAPTER V. AN OLD-FASHIONED DESCRIPTIVE CHAPTER.
CHAPTER VI. THE SUNBEAM AND THE SHADOW.
CHAPTER VII. THE EVENT OF THE SEASON.
CHAPTER VIII. THE MORNING AFTER.
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.”
CHAPTER X. THE DOCTOR CALLS ON ELSIE VENNER.
CHAPTER XI. COUSIN RICHARD'S VISIT.
CHAPTER XII. THE APOLLINEAN INSTITUTE. (With Extracts from the “Reporto f the committee.”)
CHAPTER XVII. OLD SOPHY CALLS ON THE REVEREND DOCTOR.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE REVEREND DOCTOR CALLS ON BROTHER FAIRWEATHER.
CHAPTER XIX. THE SPIDER ON HIS THREAD.
CHAPTER XX. FROM WITHOUT AND FROM WITHIN.
CHAPTER XXI. THE WIDOW ROWENS GIVES A TEA-PARTY.
CHAPTER XXII. WHY DOCTORS DIFFER.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE WILD HUNTSMAN.
CHAPTER XXV. THE PERILOUS HOUR.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE NEWS REACHES THE DUDLEY MANSION.
CHAPTER XXVII. A SOUL IN DISTRESS.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SECRET IS WHISPERED.
CHAPTER XXX. THE GOLDEN CORD IS LOOSED.
CHAPTER XXXI. MR. SILAS PECKHAM RENDERS HIS ACCOUNT.
PREFACE.
This tale was published in successive parts in the “Atlantic Monthly,” under the name of “The Professor's Story,” the first number having appeared in the third week of December, 1859. The critic who is curious in coincidences must refer to the Magazine for the date of publication of the chapter he is examining.
In calling this narrative a “romance,” the Author wishes to make sure of being indulged in the common privileges of the poetic license. Through all the disguise
