The Old Countess (Sedgwick)

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The Old Countess (1927)
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston and New York

The Old Countess

The Old Countess

By
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
(Mrs. Basil de Sélincourt)

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge

Copyright, 1926 and 1927, by International Magazine Company, Inc.
Copyright, 1927, by Anne Douglas de Sélincourt
All rights reservedSecond impression, March, 1927

The Riverside Press
Cambridge · Massachusetts
Printed in the U.S.A.

Contents

I. The Old Countess 3
II. Jill 10
III. The Cemetery 18
IV. The Derelicts 27
V. Jill and Graham 39
VI. The Curé's Cat 47
VII. Childe Roland 57
VIII. Marthe Ludérac 72
IX. Family Histories 89
X. On the Island 99
XI. On the Balcony 116
XII. The Evening Party 124
XIII. The Harp 139
XIV. Eurydice 154
XV. Marthe Ludérac's Story 171
XVI. The Friends 188
XVII. The Sibyl 197
XVIII. The Torrent 207
XIX. Still Tempest 221
XX. The Courtesan 230
XXI. The Lost Eurydice 242
XXII. Cécile Léonore 253
XXIII. In Marthe Ludérac's Room 262
XXIV. The Permissionnaire 266
XXV. The Last Reading 279
XXVI. In the Garden 287
XXVII. The Storm 298
XXVIII. By the Cemetery Wall 316
XXIX. The Dream 325
XXX. The Parting 329
XXXI. The Empty House 339
XXXII. The Flood 352
Epilogue 364

The Old Countess



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