Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's Notes: SO_3HO = 3 is subscripted [=u] = macron above "u"

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DR. SEVIER

BY GEORGE W. CABLE

AUTHOR OF "OLD CREOLE DAYS," "THE GRANDISSIMES," "MADAME DELPHINE," ETC.

NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1897

Copyright, 1883 and 1884 BY GEORGE W. CABLE

_All rights reserved_

TROW'S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY, NEW YORK.

TO MY FRIEND MARION A. BAKER

CONTENTS.

Chapter Page
I.--The Doctor 5
II.--A Young Stranger 10
III.--His Wife 17
IV.--Convalescence and Acquaintance 22
V.--Hard Questions 29
VI.--Nesting 34
VII.--Disappearance 45
VIII.--A Question of Book-keeping 52
IX.--When the Wind Blows 61
X.--Gentles and Commons 66
XI.--A Pantomime 73
XII.--"She's all the World" 81
XIII.--The Bough Breaks 87
XIV.--Hard Speeches and High Temper 94
XV.--The Cradle Falls 99
XVI.--Many Waters 107
XVII.--Raphael Ristofalo 118
XVIII.--How He Did It 127
XIX.--Another Patient 134
XX.--Alice 138
XXI.--The Sun at Midnight 142
XXII.--Borrower Turned Lender 160
XXIII.--Wear and Tear 169
XXIV.--Brought to Bay 177
XXV.--The Doctor Dines Out 184
XXVI.--The Trough of the Sea 194
XXVII.--Out of the Frying-Pan 207
XXVIII.--"Oh, where is my Love?" 215
XXIX.--Release.--Narcisse 224
XXX.--Lighting Ship 233
XXXI.--At Last 243
XXXII.--A Rising Star 248
XXXIII.--Bees, Wasps, and Butterflies 258
XXXIV.--Toward the Zenith 262
XXXV.--To Sigh, yet Feel no Pain 268
XXXVI.--What Name? 275
XXXVII.--Pestilence 280
XXXVIII.--"I must be Cruel only to be Kind" 286
XXXIX.--"Pettent Prate" 294
XL.--Sweet Bells Jangled 300
XLI.--Mirage 310
XLII.--Ristofalo and the Rector 317
XLIII.--Shall she Come or Stay? 324
XLIV.--What would you Do? 329
XLV.--Narcisse with News 335
XLVI.--A Prison Memento 340
XLVII.--Now I Lay Me-- 345
XLVIII.--Rise up, my Love, my Fair One! 351
XLIX.--A Bundle of Hopes 357
L.--Fall In! 366
LI.--Blue Bonnets over the Border 372
LII.--A Pass through the Lines 378
LIII.--Try Again 384
LIV.--"Who Goes There?" 394
LV.--Dixie 412
LVI.--Fire and Sword 425
LVII.--Almost in Sight 435
LVIII.--A Golden Sunset 445
LIX.--Afterglow 454
LX.--"Yet shall he live" 465
LXI.--Peace 470

DR. SEVIER.