The Blithedale RomanceThe evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street. Mr. Coverdale, said he softly, can I speak with you a moment? As I have casually alluded to the Veiled Lady, it may not be amiss to mention, for the benefit of such of my readers as are unacquainted with her now forgotten celebrity, that she was a phenomenon in the mesmeric line; one of the earliest that had indicated the birth of a new science, or the revival of an old humbug. Since those times her sisterhood have grown too numerous to attract much individual notice; nor, in fact, has any one of them come before the public under such skilfully contrived circumstances of stage effect as those which at once mystified and illuminated the remarkable performances of the lady in question. Nowadays, in the management of his subject, clairvoyant, or medium, the exhibitor affects the simplicity and openness of scientific experiment; |
Contents
1 OLD MOODIE | 7 |
2 BLITHEDALE | 12 |
3 A KNOT OF DREAMERS | 17 |
4 THE SUPPERTABLE | 26 |
5 UNTIL BEDTIME | 35 |
6 COVERDALES SICKCHAMBER | 42 |
7 THE CONVALESCENT | 53 |
8 A MODERN ARCADIA | 62 |
16 LEAVETAKINGS | 147 |
17 THE HOTEL | 156 |
18 THE BOARDINGHOUSE | 164 |
19 ZENOBIAS DRAWINGROOM | 171 |
20 THEY VANISH | 180 |
21 AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE | 186 |
22 FAUNTLEROY | 194 |
23 A VILLAGE HALL | 206 |
9 HOLLINGSWORTH ZENOBIA PRISCILLA | 74 |
10 A VISITOR FROM TOWN | 87 |
11 THE WOODPATH | 96 |
12 COVERDALES HERMITAGE | 106 |
13 ZENOBIAS LEGEND | 114 |
14 ELIOTS PULPIT | 126 |
15 A CRISIS | 138 |
24 THE MASQUERADERS | 216 |
25 THE THREE TOGETHER | 225 |
26 ZENOBIA AND COVERDALE | 234 |
27 MIDNIGHT | 242 |
28 BLITHEDALE PASTURE | 252 |
29 MILES COVERDALES CONFESSION | 259 |
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