Charles James Lever
The Daltons: Three Roads In Life
Complete Edition (Vol. 1&2)
e-artnow, 2020
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EAN 4064066389840
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. BADEN OUT OF SEASON.
CHAPTER II. AN HUMBLE INTERIOR
CHAPTER VII. A LESSON IN PISTOL-SHOOTING
CHAPTER VIII. THE NIGHT EXCURSION
CHAPTER IX. A FINE LADY'S BLANDISHMENTS.
CHAPTER X. A FAMILY DISCUSSION.
CHAPTER XI. A PEEP BETWEEN THE SHUTTERS AT A NEW CHARACTER.
CHAPTER XIII. A SUSPICIOUS VISITOR
CHAPTER XIV. AN EMBARRASSING QUESTION.
CHAPTER XVI. THE “SAAL” OF THE “RUSSIE.”
CHAPTER XVII. A FAMILY DISCUSSION.
CHAPTER XVIII. CARES AND CROSSES
CHAPTER XIX. PREPARATIONS FOR THE ROAD.
CHAPTER XX. A VERY SMALL “INTERIOR.”
CHAPTER XXIII. A SMALL SUPPER PARTY.
CHAPTER XXIV. A MIDNIGHT RECEPTION
CHAPTER XXVI. THE END OF THE FIRST ACT
CHAPTER XXVII. A SMALL DINNER AT THE VILLINO ZOE.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE VISCOUNT'S VISION.
CHAPTER XXIX. FRANK'S JOURNEY.
CHAPTER XXX. THE THREAT OP “A SLIGHT EMBARRASSMENT.”
CHAPTER XXXI. A CONVIVIAL EVENING
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE CONCLUSION OF A “GRAND DINNER.”
CHAPTER XXXIV. JEKYL'S COUNSELS
CHAPTER XXXVI. A STREET RENCONTRE
PREFACE.
IF the original conception of this tale was owing to the story of an old and valued schoolfellow who took service in Austria, and rose to rank and honors there, all the rest was purely fictitious. My friend had made a deep impression on my mind by his narratives of that strange life, wherein, in the very midst of our modern civilization, an old-world tradition still has its influence, making the army of to-day the veritable sons and descendants of those who grouped around the bivouac fires in Wallenstein's camp. Of that more than Oriental submission that graduated deference to military rank that chivalrous devotion to the “Kaiser” whicli enter into the soldier heart of Austria, I have been unable to reproduce any but the very faintest outlines, and yet these were the traits which, pervaded all my friend's stories and gave them character and distinctiveness.
Many of the other characters in this tale were drawn from the life, with such changes added and omitted features as might rescue them from any charge of personality. With all my care on this